Brenda Locke

• Surrey may need to draft 2 budgets amid policing decision delay: mayor

  "It's nigh on impossible for us to do an accurate budget to be frank with you," Brenda Locke said of the delay on a final decision on disbanding the Surrey Police Service

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  Jan 27
  
• B.C. government needs ‘additional information’ before decision on Surrey Police Service

  The province says it needs more information before making a final decision on whether to scrap Surrey's transition to a municipal police force.

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  Jan 26
  
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• Surrey Police Service deploys more officers as fate of department hangs in limbo

  The Surrey Police Service said Monday that it had deployed another 18 constables to work alongside frontline and investigative RCMP officers.

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  Jan 23
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• Surrey Police Service makes its case to province as decision on policing transition looms

  Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth will have the final say on reversing the transition from the RCMP to a municipal force, which is expected to come early next year.

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  Dec 22, 2022
• Continuing transition to Surrey Police Service would cost estimated $235M: report

  The 88-page document will go before Surrey's mayor and council on Monday, with a recommendation it be endorsed and presented to Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth by Dec. 15.

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  Dec 9, 2022
• New Surrey mayor accused of RCMP bias while chairing her first police board meeting

  Locke was elected last month on a pledge to disband the Surrey Police Service (SPS), and has been shepherding a plan to do so through council since taking office. 

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  Nov 30, 2022
• RCMP decries Surrey Police Union claims about short-staffing as ‘inaccurate’

  According to the union, Surrey Police Service officers make up between 35 and 50 per cent of frontline general duty deployments across two watches in the city each day.

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  Nov 29, 2022
• They moved to B.C. to join Surrey’s new police force. Now, their future is uncertain

  Police officers who moved from out-of-province to work with the new Surrey Police Service are thinking about what will happen if the department is disbanded under the new mayor.

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  Nov 17, 2022
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• Surrey police chief explains why he’ll keep hiring despite council vote to keep RCMP

  "The mayor doesn't have the authority to direct the police department to do any particular thing," Surrey Police Service Chief Const. Norm Lipinski said.

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  Nov 15, 2022
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• Surrey City council votes to keep RCMP

  If councillors vote to maintain the RCMP in Surrey, B.C., staff will present a plan to B.C.’s solicitor general Mike Farnworth on how the municipal force will be dismantled.

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  Nov 14, 2022