City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

HEALTH AND SAFETY SERVICES

LAW ENFORCEMENT The City of Surrey contracts with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to provide municipal level police services. The Surrey detachment is the largest RCMP detachment in Canada with 843 police members (regular and civilian), a support staff of 290 full-time and 12 part-time municipal employees plus over 100 auxiliaries, 100 community volunteers, and 38 volunteers in the Auxiliary program. In November 2018, Council voted unanimously to move forward with an independent municipal police service and served notice to the Province that it would terminate the contracted policing by the RCMP. Surrey received a green light in 2019 to proceed with the establishment of the Surrey Police Service. Since that time, the Surrey Police Board was established in early 2020 followed by the appointment of the seven community board members by the Province in June of 2020, joining the Mayor as Chair and the municipal council appointee, completing the nine-person board. Following that, the board hired the City’s first Chief Constable later in 2020. The transition from Surrey RCMP to Surrey Police Services is anticipated to be significantly completed by end of 2022.

Surrey Court Services Provincial/Family Courts 14340 – 57th Avenue Surrey, BC V3X 1B2 604-572-2200 www.provincialcourt.bc.ca

Surrey RCMP 14355 – 57th Avenue Surrey, BC V3X 1A9 604-599-0502 (non-emergency) www.surrey.rcmp.ca

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