New stats show a number of arrests made in Surrey recently
Posted July 15, 2015 12:26 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS 1130) – There have been many questions about how police have been handling recent violence south of the Fraser, but new stats shed some light on how busy they’ve been.
Police have made 514 arrests in Surrey and Delta since April, with 146 charges laid.
“It will make a difference,” says Sergeant Lindsey Houghton with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit. “There’s no question that what we’ve done is something that needed to be done in response to what these people were choosing to do.”
Beyond that, and police have seized 76 weapons, a dozen of which were guns, and have also carried out 4,500 traffic stops.
“It’s extremely challenging,” says Houghton of tracking down those suspected of involvement in recent gun violence. “You have sometimes dozens of people involved or potentially involved in a conflict of this kind, driving around sometimes trying to evade detection and evade being stopped.”
Enforcement is just one part of the solution, says Houghton, stating prevention efforts with vulnerable youth will remain a priority.
