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SAFETY
Sevenbikecop positionslost inBurnaby By Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@burnabynow.com
Local parks will gain four civilian bylaw officers on bikes this summer, but they’ll lose seven RCMP bike cops because of a shortage of police resources, according to Burnaby’s top cop. Chief Supt. Deanne Burleigh, the officer in charge of the Burnaby RCMP detachment, told the city’s public safety committee last Tuesday the detachment was pulling the plug on the bike squad this year. “The bike squad is a really effective policing enforcement tool. Unfortunately, this summer the decision was made not to stand up the bike squad,” she said, “so there will be no RCMP bike squad, and that’s due to resourcing pressures in the need to respond to calls for service on the front line.” The bike squad had been made up of general duty officers, Burleigh explained. After looking at the detachment’s calls-for-service stats, she said she had to make the “difficult decision” not to commit general duty resources to the squad. “We have to have the resources for frontline policing priority call response,” she told the NOW, “and I want to be able to have the resources on the ground to be able to respond to 911.That’s the number 1 priority.”
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Above: ‘Queen Victoria’ meets the Askari family during Victoria Day celebrations at Burnaby Village Museum on Monday. At left, members of the Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers march during the procession. For more photos of Victoria Day at the Burnaby Village Museum, go to burnabynow.com. PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER
Bike cops: Members of the Burnaby RCMP bike squad at Central Park. PHOTO NOW FILES
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