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BEPPLE – Do we pick the gun or the butter knife for frontline policing?

June 10, 2020 // 2 Comments

HAVING THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT makes all the difference. You don’t take a butter knife to a gun fight. And you shouldn’t take a gun, when a butter knife will do. In the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Police body cams won’t fix everything but they’ll be a start

June 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT LOOKS VERY MUCH as though all front-line police in Canada will be wearing body cameras in the future and it’s about time. Prime [Continue]

POLICE – Officer Fargo celebrating his seventh birthday today

June 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

A Kamloops police officer celebrates his seventh birthday today (June 2, 2020). The birthday boy is Fargo, a police dog with the Kamloops RCMP detachment. The detachment sent [Continue]

POLICE – It was a bad night to be a criminal in Kamloops

May 27, 2020 // 1 Comment

Police in Kamloops were kept busy overnight (May 27, 2020) targeting criminals throughout the city. A traffic stop in the downtown core netted a man with two outstanding [Continue]

BEPPLE – RCMP missed opportunity to communicate with public via Twitter

May 27, 2020 // 4 Comments

IF WE HAVE LEARNED nothing else in the past month here in Kamloops, we have learned that even a tragedy of national proportion such as the crash of the Snowbird on May 17, [Continue]

POLICE – Girl recovering after being pulled from North Thompson River

May 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Emergency crews rushed a youth to hospital following an incident in the North Thompson River Friday evening (May 8, 2020). Shortly before 8 p.m., Kamloops RCMP were called to [Continue]