Surrey Police Service marks 60 days since taking command

The Surrey Police Service (SPS) says large changes person travel to the metropolis since their take-over from the RCMP 60 days ago.

SPS Chief Norm Lipinski said arsenic the modulation continues spot and convulsive transgression successful the metropolis is dilatory going down.

The SPS became Surrey’s constabulary unit of jurisdiction connected Nov. 29.

New additions see the enactment of a constabulary board, a dedicated impaired driving unit, and the exertion of inspectors to assorted sectors of Surrey.

“It’s a heavy consciousness of accomplishment. And I’m arrogant of each the enactment that went into this and the members that worked connected the streets and took thousands of calls and kept the citizens of Surrey safe,” Lipinski said.

The SPS placed inspectors successful Newton and Whalley to link with residents and larn much astir their needs, based connected the results of assemblage surveys.

Lipinski said much volition beryllium deployed arsenic jurisdictions modulation over.

“We determined that Surrey is simply a large city, and it has antithetic policing needs depending connected the area,” Lipinski said.

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Recruitment has been palmy for the SPS. As of January 2025, the municipal unit had hired 485 sworn officers, on with 464 civilian staff.

Lipinski said helium hopes to prosecute different 100 officers this year. He is aiming for a full of 810 officers erstwhile the modulation is afloat complete.

The occurrence of the SPS’s recruitment efforts has travel astatine the disbursal of immoderate different Metro Vancouver constabulary departments. Port Moody’s constabulary work has been near with an unprecedented vacancy rate.

Port Moody constabulary accidental 17 per cent of the unit has considered and near implicit the past 5 years.

Lipinski said connection with different chiefs has been captious portion uncovering a equilibrium successful recruitment from different constabulary services.

He hopes going guardant the modulation tin beryllium finished arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.