Police

EDITORIAL – Calls for provincial police force are déjà vu all over again

May 3, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, the more they stay the same, the old saying goes. It might be an apt description for a proposal to get rid of the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: The quest for a made-at-home plan to fight social disorder

March 5, 2022 // 1 Comment

IT’S GOOD TO KNOW, sometimes, that we’re not in it alone. Social disorder on the streets is the biggest topic of public discussion in Kamloops, with everyone trying to [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Public has chance for a say on changes to B.C. Police Act

August 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist Lynne Stonier-Newman here, author of Policing A Pioneer Province: The British Columbia Provincial Police 1858 – 1950. Writing [Continue]

POLICING – We’re too quick to condemn policing and its frontline officers

December 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

The ugly realities of humanity that we would rather believe belong in someone else’s world are the realities police officers encounter daily By ANIL ANAND Research [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Weapons haul shows a need for a lot more ‘disrupting’

February 7, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DID YOU SEE THE LIST of weaponry collected by police after the two shootings in Kamloops a couple of weeks ago? If you missed it, here it [Continue]

Property crime numbers ‘on a bit of an upslide’ say police

January 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS — Keeping a lid on property crime is proving a challenge, says RCMP Supt. Brad Mueller. In a report to the Coordinated Enforcement Task Force today, he said property [Continue]