From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 11:21:29 AM UTC-7, gregca...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > SURREY, B.C. - The federal government has pledged 100 new Mounties to the   
   Metro Vancouver city in the middle of a spasm of gun violence and added $3.5   
   million to extract those vulnerable to becoming gang members in the   
   drug-fuelled turf war.   
      
      
   Hmmm . . . could be that Harper is now having to replace the same police   
   officers that he cut from the force less than a year ago.  Remember this, dim   
   bulb? . . .   
      
   Property prices have been dropping like a rock in your stomping grounds, and   
   Eric Schild's home town of Surrey, eh?   
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   VANCOUVER SUN August 20, 2014   
      
      
   RCMP in B.C. faces funding cuts to organized crime, homicide units   
      
   The RCMP in B.C. is facing millions of dollars in provincial funding cuts for   
   the coming year, creating a budget squeeze that the Mounties say will lead to   
   staffing reductions in its organized crime and homicide units.   
      
   Although the Ministry of Justice said Wednesday that the province is cutting   
   $3 million in funding to the RCMP for the 2014-15 budget year, a statement   
   later in the day from the Mounties' commanding officer in B.C. put that figure   
   at $4.2 million.   
      
   Either way, the cuts amount to about one per cent of the $325 million the   
   province contributes to the RCMP, which constitutes 70 per cent of the force's   
   overall costs in B.C. The federal government pays the remaining 30 per cent.   
      
   In his statement Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner Craig Callens said the B.C.   
   force has already cut down on travel, administrative and training costs in   
   recent years, and so the only remaining area in which to find savings is   
   policing services.   
      
   Callens said he is being forced to cut $2.8 million from the budget for the   
   anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, eliminating 12 positions.   
   The Major Crimes program will see $1.4 million in cuts, which will include the   
   reduction of 13 full-   
   time investigators.   
      
   "We remain committed to delivering quality police services to British   
   Columbians," Callens said. "However, policing costs money and we have less to   
   work with. There will be fewer police officers available in these specialized   
   areas tomorrow than there    
   were yesterday."   
      
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