The City of Surrey’s desire to stop the policing transition to a municipal force has hit its latest snag.
The BC Supreme Court has sided with the province, effectively throwing out the city’s plan to keep the RCMP as the police force of jurisdiction.
The ruling comes after Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke submitted a judicial review of Solicitor General and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth’s July 2023 order that the RCMP must be replaced by the Surrey Police Service.
The petition, lodged in October of last year, sought to have the court declare that “the Province of British Columbia is without lawful authority to assign to the City the responsibility to transition the City’s police of jurisdiction from the police force established by the City,” under the Police Act.
More to come.
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