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Surrey residents welcome additional security measures
SURREY/CKNW(AM980)
Shane Woodford | Email news tips to shane.woodford@corusent.com
3/19/2013

The Panorama Ridge Ratepayers Association is welcoming a move by Surrey's Mayor to tackle crime in the area.
 
After four bodies were found on Colebrook Road this year board member Tammy Ritchie says lights and cameras are a welcome addition.

"I really can't hink anybody would be dumb enough to go back there again in the particular area but as far as the broader crime sort of approach there we have a meeting with the mayor on April 4th with all the sort of interested stakeholders, Senior RCMP, Blockwatch, bylaws which is a huge thing to have on board."

Ritchie says the community wants the city to take a 'no crime too small' approach to the area as a whole.
 
She says a string of murders in Surrey this year is just a symptom of a larger overall problem.

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  1. JamieS_5846 posted on 03/19/2013 08:31 PM
    On January 26th, 2011, I was given an audience with the City of Surrey's Crime Reduction Strategies Unit, and presented them with a number of solutions, along with the following strategy paper - "A New Crime Paradigm".

    It is of considerable note that out of the more than 100 recipients of this document, including dozens directly involved in Surrey's official anti-crime unit, exactly zero have offered a comment or reply in any form.

    Now they are scrambling looking for "crime-reduction" solutions that have been sitting on their own desks, intentionally ignored for the past 14 months.

    http://jamiescottshow.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-new-crime-paradigm.html?fb_action_ids=549392578414649&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=timeline_og&action_object_map=%7B%22549392578414649%22%3A560227244006929%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22549392578414649%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
    1. RichardF_4221 posted on 03/21/2013 03:33 PM
      @JamieS_5846 Solutions are only worth searching out once they'll diffuse a problem that makes certain people look bad.
    2. RichardF_4221 posted on 03/21/2013 03:35 PM
      @JamieS_5846 Had a quick read of your solutions. I agree with your ideas.
  2. FrankM_7944 posted on 03/19/2013 09:17 PM
    A bandaid solution to a growing crime problem in Surrey.

    Mayor Watts and her current council continue to build and refuse to combat the huge number of illegal suites. Suites bring additional people that place a huge burden on the RCMP, without paying their share. If suites were actually paying towards the services they using, including the RCMP, we could afford more officers to patrol the street.

    What next, cameras and lights on every farm and back road in Surrey?
    Waste of money, without addressing the real issue, who is murdering these people. A new dumping area will arise, what then??
  3. FrankM_7944 posted on 03/19/2013 09:37 PM
    Before readers jump all over my last comment, let me clear one thing up; I don't think people who live in suites commit the crimes, I do know that the extra volume of people living in a City, call for more City services, one of which is police. And clearly the City of Surrey needs more police.
  4. MichaelD_10 posted on 03/20/2013 09:26 AM
    We need to take the revenue stream away from these gangs. End Cannabis prohibition.
    1. RichardF_4221 posted on 03/21/2013 03:31 PM
      @MichaelD_10 We need to take the steam out of the gangster's way of life.

      Outlaw any weapon originally designed to kill people, not game.

      Outlaw any modifications to weapons.

      $10,000 fine for getting caught with an illegal weapon, first offence. Automatic life in jail (not prison...JAIL) for using a weapon in a crime.
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