The province has ordered the City of Surrey to continue its transition to the Surrey Police Service (SPS), despite the new council’s plan to revert to the RCMP.
Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said in a release Wednesday that the move to the RCMP could have caused a “crisis in policing” as the city failed to prevent an exodus of SPS officers.
Farnworth also said the city failed to demonstrate they could staff the Surrey RCMP without pulling RCMP officers from other communities, noting the organization is already experiencing a critical staffing shortage across the province and the country.
“͞The Surrey Police Service is the only path forward
