LOOKING BACK (November 11, 2022): KASH HEED SLAMS BRENDA LOCKE!

Kash Heed Photo submitted

(EDITOR’S NOTE: With Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and her Surrey Connect in one unsavoury controversy after another, we thought this VOICE article from last November really hits the nail on the head!)

 

SURREY Mayor Brenda Locke is now getting increasingly desperate as she realizes that her plan to get rid of the Surrey Police Service (that was established after Doug McCallum won the 2018 municipal election on that mandate with 40 per cent of the total votes cast — as compared to the 28 per cent of the total votes cast for her in 2022 on her pledge to keep the RCMP in Surrey) is going NOWHERE!

On Friday, this naïve politician who is under the RCMP’s thumb exposed her pettiness and immaturity even further when she attacked former solicitor general Kash Heed (who is now a Councillor in Richmond) for exposing the futility of her RCMP mission on CKNW’s Mike Smyth show.

Brenda Locke

After Heed’s comments on CKNW (see below for details), Locke sent the following message to Heed:

“Hey Kash, How about stay in your lane. If you are such a believer work for it in Richmond.”

Boy, she messed with the wrong guy!

Heed fired back:

“Brenda, are you sure you want to send this as is to me? Police policy/opinion/expertise have been part of my background for over 40 years. Trying to suppress me has never worked for anyone and it certainly won’t work for you. Would you like to debate this with me publicly? Thanks Kash.”

Locke replied:

“Wow is exactly what I thought. For an elected official to criticize the actions of another city is off side.”

Kash shot back:

“Really. Not in my world! Maybe that is why politics are so screwed up. Brenda just so you know, there is no confidentiality between us anymore.”

Whoa, Locke thought she could bully Heed just as she and her RCMP supporters harassed then-mayor Doug McCallum and his supporters in Council day and night like rabid dogs.

Well, she got kicked right back by Heed!

 

ON the Mike Smyth show, Heed pointed out the absurdity of trying to get rid of the Surrey Police Service (SPS), pointing out the mere 28 per cent mandate that Locke won (with just over 30 per cent of Surrey’s total electorate voting) and saying that hopefully the NDP government would be wise not to go back to the RCMP. As it is, he noted, the Province is looking at a regional policing model.

He also noted that reversing the police transition would be very expensive and would tie down the City of Surrey in lawsuits for the next four years, resulting in CONFUSION and DIVISION. SPS officers do NOT want to join the RCMP (275 of 293 SPS frontline officers signed a pledge this week that they will not join the RCMP). Many SPS officers had retired from other police forces to join the SPS and so many officers had relocated to Surrey.

An SPS member who also came on the show pointed out that only 45 per of their officers were from the RCMP; the rest had come from municipal and provincial agencies. They had come to Surrey to build up a new police force for the City.

Heed asserted that most SPS officers would NOT join the RCMP and go elsewhere.

In other words, Locke is being terribly naïve if not deceptive. She is only doing what her RCMP MASTERS are telling her to do.