I just couldn’t believe what I was reading in Tuesday’s Vancouver Sun. I am talking about the frontpage story titled “Cop tally on Surrey streets unclear” with the subheading “RCMP won’t disclose number on the job as transition stalls.”
I just laughed my guts out!
The RCMP just made asses of themselves in the case of former Doug McCallum – just as they had made asses of themselves in the case of former solicitor general Kash Heed when they went after him, too, some years ago because he wanted to kick them out of B.C.
Ah, history repeating itself!
The Vancouver Sun report highlighted the fact that while the Surrey Police Service has released staffing numbers, the RCMP continues to hide their numbers.
What!
Did I read that right?
Why on earth would they be so scared of the truth?
The BC RCMP spokesperson looked worse than pathetic coming up with a slew of excuses including this ludicrous one: that the staffing numbers had to be kept secret because of operational reasons!
The well-know professor emeritus of criminology at SFU, Rob Gordon’s reaction was hilarious.
He told the Vancouver Sun: “[The RCMP] make up all sorts of stories like, ‘We don’t want the bad guys to know how many officers are out there on the street.’ As if (the criminals) are going to say, ‘OK, there are 300 officers, all right, we are going to do a bank robbery.”
Everyone knows that the RCMP has had major problems with staffing for years and they have been absolutely deceitful about it. And they will blame everyone but themselves about their woes.
And these are the pathetic characters who just want to stay on in Surrey even though ONLY 28 PER CENT of voters want them as the vote for their chosen candidate Brenda Locke shows! McCallum had the support of 40 PER CENT of the voters to kick the RCMP out of Surrey.
And, by the way, lawyers and police officers have told The VOICE that McCallum (who was declared innocent on Monday by the court in the public mischief case) can now sue the RCMP, and some suggest that he can also sue Locke — only that Locke’s legal bills will be paid by the taxpayers!
AND by the way, I found this response by Andre Holley to CBC reporter Jason Proctor’s story, “Former Surrey mayor Doug McCallum found not guilty of public mischief,” just brilliant (dumb Locke should read this a million times!):
SO, McCallum has been found not guilty. The current Mayor Brenda Locke has stated that the city will not pay McCallum’s legal fees because he was at the store on personal business buying groceries and not city business.
I think he has a good possibility of winning a case for reimbursement from the city after being declared not guilty.
1. He had approval from Council at the time to pay his legal fees.
2, As soon as Debi Johnstone confronted Doug McCallum asking for his resignation the interaction between the two was that of a surrey citizen confronting the mayor of Surrey. This is now Surrey’s business.
3. You must ask the question. If Doug McCallum was not the mayor of Surrey would this incident have taken place? If the answer is no, then the interaction was that of being between the mayor and Debi Johnston is now Surrey’s business.
4. Is the job of the mayor 24 -7? When is the mayor not the mayor?
Like him or not you have to put your personal opinions aside and look at the facts.
(VOICE opinion)
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