Safe Surrey Coalition

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Today I attended the Surrey Police Board meeting and spoke with the media about the board’s proposed directive that would restrict the Chief Constable and senior officers from speaking openly on public safety issues.

Surrey residents deserve transparency, accountability, and the truth not silence. Our police must be able to speak honestly about the challenges facing our city, especially when public safety is on the line.

I will continue standing up for the men and women of the Surrey Police Service and for every Surrey resident who deserves to feel safe.

Four months before Surrey voters go to the polls, Brenda Locke’s board is moving to gag Surrey’s police.

A directive on today’s Surrey Police Board agenda would stop the Chief Constable and senior officers from speaking openly about public safety.

Surrey residents deserve transparency, not silence. Public safety should never be controlled for political convenience.

As Mayor, I will reverse this. No officer in Surrey should ever be gagged for telling the public the truth about safety in our city.

A police chief fired. Two board members gone. In three days.

Doug McCallum is demanding an independent police investigation. And if any laws were broken, charges must be laid. No one is above the law. Not even the Mayor Brenda Locke.

A police chief fired. Two board members gone. In three days.

And the Chair of Surrey’s own police board did not go quietly.

On his way out, he said the firing of Chief Lipinski broke the board’s own governance policies. And the Police Act. He said political tentacles had reached far too deeply into the board.

Read that again. The man who chaired the board says the law may have been broken.

When that happens, you do not hold a press conference and move on.

You call in police investigators.

Today, Doug McCallum is demanding an independent police investigation into the firing of Surrey’s police chief and the collapse of the police board.

Not the RCMP. The new board chair is a former RCMP officer who fought for years to keep the RCMP in Surrey. They cannot investigate this. Surrey deserves police investigators with no stake in the outcome.

And Doug is clear: if any laws were broken, charges must be laid.

No one is above the law. Not a board member. Not a councillor. Not the Mayor.

All of this is happening in the middle of an extortion crisis. Families getting threats. Shots fired in our neighbourhoods. And the people sworn to protect us thrown into chaos by political games.

Surrey deserves the truth. Under oath. From police investigators with no stake in the outcome.

Doug built the Surrey Police Service. He will get Surrey the answers it deserves.

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