DELTA (NEWS1130) – A regional police force will not benefit the citizens of Delta, according to Mayor Lois Jackson.
She is the latest person to come out against the recommendation put forward by Missing Women Inquiry Commissioner Wally Oppal. Jackson doesn’t feel it would make her community safer, nor would it making policing cheaper.
“Everything that we analyzed here in Delta, including our ability to change and provide immediate response to more officers or change or any direction can happen now at the local level… if there was a regional force that could not happen.”
She says Delta’s model is ‘No Call is too Small” and that has been instituted for 13 years. “Local trends can be identified and analyzed and when you look after the small stuff, the big stuff is going to be taken care of much more easily and this has been proven in New York City.”
Jackson explains the Pickton murders happened a number of years ago and policing has changed a lot since then.
“Communication between all police departments has changed considerably since then and I don’t think creating a big mega police force is going to serve any of my people well.”
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@cb, the entire Western World is wrong and the GVRD has it right with 11 police forces in one city? Considering Vancouver and region has the 3rd highest property crime rate in North America – do you think there is a link? Do you even think? Go bang your head on a wall and try to knock some sense into it. Or even better, go move to some small hillbilly town where you belong and take your mayor with you.
You really are an arrogant piece of ****…no one is entilted to have an opinion different to yours.
Every time I see you respond to any story on here it’s the same “my way or the highway” attitude.
Guess your life must be very boring trolling on this site day after day.
By the way, the GVRD is not a city, so how can there be “11 police forces in one city”.
Having your own police force is an important part of Playing Town. This is Lower Mainland hillbilly politics.
Why would the commander and chief of her own private army support loosing control? This isn’t about what the mayors want, it is about what the taxpayers want. Until the mayors against police amalgamation can demonstrate ANY city in North America with 11 police forces, they should simply shud up try to remember who they work for.
I happen to live in Delta and I would not want a regional police force either. I am happy with the one we have here and wouldn’t want to see any changes. So maybe you should shud up and not speak for everyone else.
There’s 8 in the Lower Mainland, not 11 (RCMP, Vancouver, West Van, Delta, New West, Port Moody, Abbotsford, Transit. Another area in North America with as many? Orange County, California. As for what the taxpayers want, I’m a taxpayer who doesn’t want to have to pay for a regional force who will have to buy new equipment and hire new recruits, thus increasing my property taxes. If you know anything about policing in the Lower Mainland, you’d know most large integrated units weren’t around when Pickton was on the loose. Nowadays, all departments are working together in one capacity or another.
SB, you are absolutely correct. I don’t want my tax dollars funding programs in Vancouver, because that’s what will happen. Vancouver is the largest by population so they will by force garner the majority of services and resources. As Mayor Jackson quite rightly said, “What’s in it for the people of Delta”. I firmly believe we will lose out if we switch to a regional force.
Another issue that I haven’t seen raised is what happens to the RCMP contracts in all the cities/municipalities that they currently cover? Do we have to pay to get out of them or just do a Campbell and tear them up?