{"id":19641,"date":"2020-11-07T05:40:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T10:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=19641"},"modified":"2020-11-08T05:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T10:58:39","slug":"myth-about-the-quadra-island-rcmp-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/myth-about-the-quadra-island-rcmp-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth about the Quadra Island RCMP: Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Roy L Hales<\/p>\n

There is a false report, about the\u00a0Quadra Island RCMP<\/a> detachment, circulating on Cortes Island. They are allegedly being shut down. This story appears to have grown out of an idea the RCMP were discussing a couple of years ago and most likely will never be implemented.<\/p>\n

Here are the questions Cortes Currents emailed the head of the Quadra detachment,\u00a0Cpl. Sean Bulford<\/a>, and his replies.<\/p>\n

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1. Is this true?<\/h2>\n

Cpl. Bulford<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cNo.\u00a0 However,\u00a0with continued budget constraints and minimal increases in resources for several consecutive years, the\u00a0RCMP<\/a>\u00a0in E-Division (BC) have been looking at ways to maximize the man power we have.\u00a0 They have been looking at many options, one of them is hubbing or regionalizing Detachments.\u00a0 They have been looking at areas that this\u00a0could work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can say that when I first arrived on\u00a0Quadra Island<\/a>\u00a0in the spring of 2018, Quadra Island was mentioned as a possible Detachment that could be hubbed.\u00a0 That being said, Senior Management acknowledged that there would be significant logistical hurdles to hubbing Quadra Island Detachment specifically, as we cover several Islands and respond 24\/7 by police vessel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many other Detachments on Vancouver Island that they would try this with first, and so far they haven\u2019t moved in that direction at all.\u00a0 There has been no further discussion about hubbing Quadra Island Detachment.\u00a0 I have been told there would definitely be public consultation before any such measures were considered.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. If so, do you have a date for when this is expected to occur?<\/h2>\n

Cpl. Bulford<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cThis is an unlikely scenario and if it does happen, will likely not occur for several years, if at all.\u00a0If (big if) this were to happen, I imagine members would be assigned to some type of Campbell River Rural section that would have to be created.\u00a0 Members would have to be trained in operating a police vessel so they could respond at any time.\u00a0 I can only speculate on how this would eventually play out if they went this route, as this idea hasn\u2019t even moved to preliminary planning stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHope this helps clear the air.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard this rumour on Cortes myself, and I\u2019ve tried to clear things up when it pops up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally don\u2019t feel like Quadra Island would be an option for this type of plan simply because of the geographical area we cover.\u00a0 As you know, a trip from Quadra to Cortes in the middle of a stormy night is a challenge.\u00a0 The waters around the south end of Quadra Island near the Cape Mudge lighthouse can be incredibly treacherous in those conditions, and would impact response times too much, as well as jeopardise officer safety if they were required to attend from Campbell River.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some additional insight<\/h2>\n

Cortes Currents also emailed Cst. Maury Tyre<\/strong><\/a>, from the Campbell River RCMP detachment, who threw some additional light on this subject.<\/p>\n

Cst. Tyre<\/strong> - \u201cThose kinds of rumours are typically pervasive for small communities and are most often false.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe province and the RCMP constantly look at service delivery and resource models, but that does not mean that detachments will be shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the best of my knowledge, I have not heard anything from any official source about shutting down Quadra\u2019s detachment.\u00a0(it would be odd as it seems that Quadra is a growing, not shrinking community)\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I know there is an interest and concern, I can offer the insight of varying locales that I\u2019ve worked that are satellite offices.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, I worked in Klemtu and Kitkatla on the central coast of\u00a0BC where we would boat in and boat out or fly in and fly out and then stay in the communities for a work block so [as to be] available on call after hours. Both communities maintained a detachment, and when fully staffed would rotate\u00a0police in\/out on the same day, but no office staff (so the communities still get policed the same) . The officers who staff this are separate units inside the hub community\u2019s detachment so there is continuity for the satellite detachment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe savings in situations like that come from running administration in a central location and not having to maintain multiple properties for staff housing, police just stay in a single patrol cabin or bunks in the detachment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Roy L Hales There is a false report, about the\u00a0Quadra Island RCMP detachment, circulating on Cortes Island. They are allegedly being shut down. This story appears to have grown out of an idea the RCMP were discussing a couple of years ago and most likely will never be implemented. Here are the questions Cortes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":19643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[2915],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19641"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=19641"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=19641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}