BC Replaces Surrey Police Board With Administrator Over Troubled Transition

Published on November 17, 2023

British Columbia’s solicitor general has suspended the Surrey Police Board and replaced it with an administrator to perform all its duties, ousting Mayor Brenda Locke from her role in Surrey’s troubled transition from the RCMP to an independent police force. Mike Farnworth, who is also B.C.’s minister of public safety, announced Thursday that he had appointed former Abbotsford chief constable Mike Serr to take over from the board that was chaired by Locke. Locke issued a statement Thursday calling the move “nothing short of a provincial police takeover,” saying the government’s actions completely remove civilian oversight for police governance in the city....

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