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DEC - 18 - 2021 | VOLUME 29 | NUMBER 51
‘Once in a lifetime opportunity to build a police service that is tailored to Surrey’: SPS Chief Norm Lipinski IN a message to Surrey residents on Thursday, Surrey Police Service Chief Constable Norm Lipinski reflected on the past year and talked about “this once in a lifetime opportunity to build a police service that is tailored to Surrey.”
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Here is his message:
ONE year ago this month, I started my work as the first Chief Constable for the new Surrey Police Service (SPS). The SPS office building was pretty quiet when I arrived last December as I joined a few hardworking individuals from the Surrey Police Board and the City’s policing transition team. But as the weeks and months went by, more and more people joined SPS. Today, we have more than 150 sworn and civilian employees and the SPS office is far from quiet. Like me, these individuals wanted to be a part of building Surrey’s new local police service, and they wanted in on the ground floor. This is a once in a life opportunity that attracts the creative and the brave – those who want to change the status quo of policing and aren’t afraid to do the heavy lifting. Similarly, the community members and organizations who have expressed their desire to help us build SPS in a way that makes sense for Surrey,
SPS Chief Constable Norm Lipinski. Photo submitted have shown great leadership. It is easy to sit back and watch SPS unfold, but the employees and the community members who have joined us so far want to be much more than observers. They have already started to shape SPS through our customized training, our employee services, our community consultation, and much more. It is certainly not easy work to build a police service. These past twelve months have been some of the busiest of my career, but also some of the most rewarding. As the end of 2021 approaches, I want to thank ‘the creative and the brave’ – those who have helped us build SPS
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over the past year. Thanks to you, we reached a number of milestones, including our recent deployment into policing operations. This integration with the Surrey RCMP, which is part of the phased policing transition, is going very well, with our officers now taking calls for service. Thank you for welcoming them into the community! Changing a city’s policing model is a big deal. Public safety is something that Surrey residents and business owners care deeply about – that is why we are working so hard to make SPS a policing service that everyone can be proud of. The move to a local police service that answers
THIS week it became crystal clear that the Surrey Police Vote initiative that wanted to Keep the RCMP in Surrey was nothing but a veritable farce. The “usual suspect” was none other than the RCMP’s National Police Federation for, of the total of $118,264 that the campaign received, more than $104,000 was from the federation. People’s campaign?
Well, the real people forked out just over $14,000, according to financial documents filed to Elections BC, said a media report. All those associated to the vote — including a part of the so-called mainstream media — have been thoroughly exposed. As the RCMP and their supporters keep making fools of themselves, the Surrey Police Service forges ahead!
Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum (2nd from left) with (L-R) Councillors Allison Patton, Laurie Guerra, Mandeep Nagra and Doug Elford with the Surrey Police cruiser that was unveiled in 2019.
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