Brenda Locke

• New stadium, entertainment districts part of Surrey’s population boom plan: Mayor

  Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke revealed the new five-year future investment strategy in an annual state of the city speech on Thursday.

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  Feb 15
  
• Surrey mayor, police union, board at odds over budget ‘misinformation’

  Brenda Locke released a statement detailing why the City of Surrey has refused to add 10 new Surrey Police Service recruits to the payroll, stating they were not budgeted for.

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  Jan 16
  
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• Surrey spending nearly $500K on campaign alerting public to cost of ‘NDP police transition’

  The billboards state that dismantling the Surrey RCMP in favour of a fully-fledged municipal police force will cost an additional $446 million over the next decade.

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  Dec 12, 2023
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• Surrey mayor says city will take another step toward stopping police transition

  Last week, the public safety minister and solicitor general put the Surrey Police Board on ice, in the latest move to force the city to complete its transition to the SPS.

  Politics

  Nov 20, 2023
• ‘Heavy-handed’: Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke reacts to decision to suspend police board

  Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke had strong words regarding the decision to suspend the city's police board amid Surrey's police force transition woes.

  Politics

  Nov 17, 2023
• Criticism hurled at pace of Surrey police transition as report finds ‘no clear plan’

  In a progress report, municipal staff claim there is "no clear plan or any supporting documents in place" to phase out the RCMP and bring the fledgling SPS into full force.

  Crime

  Sep 11, 2023
• City of Surrey working to remove derelict boats from Nicomekl River

  The work to remove the derelict boats is scheduled to begin this September.

  Environment

  Sep 7, 2023
• ‘Posturing must stop’: Surrey mayor chairs tense police board meeting after province’s decision

  'This board has made it a deliberate position that they build a wall and even offend the City of Surrey through their work,' Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke said.

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  Jul 27, 2023
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• Surrey mayor meets minister for 1st time since order to switch to municipal police

  Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth met Tuesday, the first time the two have been face to face since the minister's policing decision last week.

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  Jul 25, 2023
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• ‘Politics over facts’: National RCMP group decries B.C.’s decision on Surrey police

  The National Police Federation is calling on the province to prepare an "expeditious transition plan that includes a clear and imminent end date" for the Surrey RCMP.

  Politics

  Jul 19, 2023