Surrey RCMP to Employ 47 New Police Officers

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Surrey RCMP has announced to have authorized a plan to employ 47 new officers in addition to the incoming 95 officers and 20 Community Safety Patrol personnel that were approved in April. Surrey RCMP Chief Superintendent, Bill Fordy, mentioned in his remarks that “this recommendation is based on the results of two independent research projects: a General Duty Staffing Assessment (initiated in September 2012), and an analysis of the Surrey RCMP service delivery model by Dr. Irwin Cohen of the University of the Fraser Valley (initiated in fall 2013).”

Furthermore, Fordy explained that “after analyzing significant amounts of qualitative and quantitative date, both reports concluded that Surrey Detachment requires additional front-line police officers to support the level of policing service that we strive to provide for the City of Surrey.” In addition to that, the city’s mayor, Dianne Watts, added that “Public Safety remains my top priority and the step taken today to increase the ranks of our RCMP officers sends a strong message of my commitment to effect a long term and permanent change in crime reduction in Surrey.”

Meanwhile, co-author of the report, Dr. Lauren Freeman, reviled that the factors looked at included the number of members in relation to workload and the growing population. Freeman explained that “I don’t think that its necessary that we’re always in a situation where we’re necessarily always going to need more members, I think right now it’s sort of working towards an enhanced ability to engage in proactive policing, which can go a far way.”