The Kelowna leader RCMP announced in a report to the city council on Monday evening that all of BC’s major gangs were operating in the city.
“We all have big gangs in Kelowna,” said Supt. Kara Triance.
“We know Kelowna was a victim of violent crime in the first quarter of this year. (Especially) when we saw that public shooting in Kelowna a few months ago. “
Triance referred to a targeted shootout outside the Global Fitness Center where a West Kelowna man was shot dead on March 29th.
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The city’s chief police officer said the department has made violent crime reduction a focus.
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“We are working hard to suppress (gang-related crime) as we focus on those who benefit from commercial drug sales,” said Triance.
“We will continue to do this work through intelligence policing and successful prosecution of our cases.”
A Surrey RCMP Division program has been launched in Kelowna.
“As an exciting and new invitation to the department, we have Insp. Beth McAndie, who implemented the Prohibited Patrons program in our community, and we will set this up well in advance of the launch this summer,” said Triance.
“We are actively working with alcohol control licensing organizations and hotels, and this allows us to really focus on those who commit violent crimes in our communities.”
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The Prohibited Guest Program is designed to prevent violent criminal activity in and around licensed facilities.
His goals:
- Public Safety: To deter public violence by organized criminal groups and their employees by announcing that they are not welcome to and will be removed from participating facilities.
- Protecting guests: To reduce the risk of collateral violence for guests at facilities by discouraging people whose activities pose a risk to public safety from visiting the participating facilities.
- Personnel Safety: To eliminate the intimidation and fear that such contact can bring, interactions between facility staff and those associated with criminal activity should be reduced.
Licensed bars and restaurants in Surrey that elect to participate in the program will sign an Invalid Guest Agreement authorizing the Kelowna RCMP to act on behalf of the facility to identify and remove inadmissible guests from the premises, so the police.
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Under the BC Trespass Act, authorized persons can request a person’s name and address and ask them to leave the premises.
Inadmissible guests will not be arrested or charged unless they leave the facility at the request of an authorized person.
“In determining whether someone is considered an improper patron, police officers will weigh factors such as length of criminal record, severity of past crime, the risk the person poses to the public, current staff and the time since the last crime,” RCMP employees wrote in a press release.
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