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Northern
Star will have one more appearance this year – then?? |
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City Employees should ‘broaden’ program to ‘bylaw’ infractions’ etc
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Oceana
Regatta ‘surprise ‘ visit Sunday |
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The first hint for me was the ‘welcome’ sign outside City
Hall – On a Sunday afternoon no less --- Overtime? --- Judging by the
silhouette must be similar size to our ‘usual’ ship – but few passengers seen
downtown |
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Seaquest
was taking tourists out for a harbor tour --- and a large yacht tied up at
same dock – named Carpe Diem – ‘seize the day’ translated by another local
dock walker --- and a seiner in the background (‘Prosperity’ no less) –
perhaps seen better days |
But
busy down on the dock |
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Local
Sport field ‘cheers’ |
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Didn’t see who was playing – the game was just ending as I
passed by --- but lots of enthusiasm --- and loud cheers at end of game |
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Owner
has to fill out the paper work – or be liable for removal etc
---- I suspect very lax enforcement in past with idea that ‘eventually’ city
will come along and tow away etc (see my earlier) |
Saga
of Abandoned cars –part 1 |
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The red van that got trashed in alley behind 3rd
has been removed – at the ‘owner’s expense – I am told --- Owner had left in
front of a salvage yard --- bad move --- costs 75$ to remove oil etc for salvaging --- Story was that someone moved the
car to behind 3rd Avenue where vandalized --- Now who in area
works for say Wayne Towing? – Truck occasionally seen outside these row of
three houses |
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And
check out these old junkers --- isn’t this City
property? --- Should be ‘easy’ to trace --- if anyone bothered to ‘notice’
them |
Part
of the problem for enforcement is that many old junkers
have set there for years – Easy to find name of last owner – but very
difficult to find a current address |
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Thus the need for City employees (garbage collectors etc) to become more proactive |
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.While Inspector Kilbery states
in his Northern View announcement of upgrade needs that ‘letter doesn’t say the City has to build a new building, but Killbery believes renovating the existing RCMP building
is not the best solution because it will not address the building’s problems’
Source
The letter itself talks less of prisoner safety in cells –
and more about so called ‘Inadequate space’ --- |
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Build or repair? |
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This is an interesting issue that gets at the heart of
‘local government’ --- the cells need upgrading --- and are being done so
across Canada (631 locations by
2014 cited here) -- same story
says these upgrades will be done :--- see quote below |
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Across BC and Canada |
--“including the 107 municipal and provincial detachments
in B.C. -- must, as
funding, contractors and building materials become available, upgrade
jail designs to increase visibility of prisoners, reduce points where
detainees could potentially hang themselves and prevent the creation of
weapons--- |
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Inadequate
Space argument – includes Provincial RCMP __ (Now housed on Cow Bay Road) --- |
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This excerpted from Accommodation latter – see August 3rd
Info for Council package) – as well as current force: |
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The
Broader issue – part one |
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I will retrieve the source of ‘clip’ below ---- presumably
aimed at UBCM meetings |
Why should municipalities – and especially home owners pay
the brunt of policing bills in Canada? |
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When this woman tried to lodge a formal complaint about
incident – her phone call was never returned by local RCMP --- |
The
Broader issue – part two |
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A local headline read PR ‘detachment’ inadequate --- I
like the double entendre – and I wonder what we mere citizens can do when we
consider the local policing itself becomes ‘inadequate’ – and not just the
cells? I will go into this in more detail later – but one hears
examples almost daily Here is one example – racial profiling? An East Indian woman (visible minority) was held in back
of RCMP car (along with her teenage daughter) for over an hour one night (I
was told) --- the officer claimed that an east Indian woman had escaped
prison or jail somewhere – and he was checking this woman out to see if it
was she --- even though she has lived and worked here in Rupert for years |
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High
Crime Rate Before
‘we’ the citizenry can approach this we need more information – What kind of
criminal code offences? When? Where? Etc more later
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More
Examples later |
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Previous RCMP articles July 6th –1st
of series August 8th
– links to docs etc August 12th backgrounder |
Created by LG on 8/22/2011 Last updated on Monday, August 22, 2011