Kelowna RCMP and the city’s mayor say they’re taking a wide variety of actions to address a rise in the crime rate. Officials were defending their response to the ongoing issue, after new Statistics Canada numbers showed crime trending in the wrong direction. The data shows among major Canadian metropolitan areas, Kelowna had the worst crime rate and second worst crime severity index last year.
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