Island mayors welcome plan for expanded major-crime unit (Time Colonist)

An expanded Vancouver Island major crime unit is needed as communities grow and serious crime increases, local mayors say.

Sooke Mayor Maia Tait and Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog both welcome an initiative of B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth to examine the expansion of the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime unit to all Island communities.

Farnworth has directed the province’s policing and security branch to work with the B.C. RCMP on the issue. He has written to 22 Island municipalities, First Nations and police forces inviting them to participate in preliminary consultations ...

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