
Former Surrey mayor Doug McCallum and Surrey Law enforcement Board member Jessie Sunner signed off March 14, 2022 on what Councillor Gordon Hepner not too long ago explained as “the richest police agreement in all of Canada,” for the Surrey Law enforcement Support.
McCallum was chairman of the board and Sunner was vice-chair when they set their signatures, on behalf of the Surrey Law enforcement Board, to the initial collective settlement for the fledgling Surrey Law enforcement Union.
In reply to Hepner’ concern at council’s finance committee conference March 6, Surrey’s general supervisor of finance Kam Grewal stated city personnel have been not associated with negotiations.
“There’s a collective arrangement that somebody has signed. I require to know when did you see the collective settlement for the SPS and did the City have just about anything to do with its signing for the reason that that is the richest police contract in all of Canada,” Hepner requested.
Grewal replied, “In relation to that collective bargaining agreement I can notify you that the Town of Surrey or any of its employees have been not included at all with those people negotiations. It is my comprehending that soon after execution various months right after that settlement was executed there have been bits and items of that settlement that turned accessible, at present it is available on the net, but this is, you know, six, 8, nine months soon after execution. We were not included at all.”
Letter of Comprehending “D” in the contract, underneath the heading “Termination for the duration of the Policing Transition,” expires on Dec. 30, 2024 and supplies for at minimum 18 months’ notice of termination to the union and personnel “in the event there is a conclusion to cease or reverse the changeover to Surrey Law enforcement Support.”
All through this notice time period, it reads, the employer in its sole discretion may perhaps have to have the personnel to continue on with their obligations, assignment, duties or jobs, assign them to other responsibilities, or offer severance which “shall be the value of base, and straight time wages (not together with overtime, rates associated with becoming actively at operate, and other premiums) that the Employer would or else be entitled to for the part of the Recognize Period of time from which the Worker has been excused.”
The deal states that an employee who is “in receipt of Severance and subsequently obtains work as a Police Officer, will have to immediately notify the Employer. Their remaining severance payments will be lessened by fifty p.c (50%).”
Public Protection Minister and Solicitor Basic has but to render a choice if Surrey need to manage the RCMP as its police of jurisdiction or keep on with the transition from the Surrey RCMP to the Surrey Police Company.
The RCMP has been Surrey’s law enforcement of jurisdiction considering the fact that it took about from the Surrey Police on May possibly 1, 1951, as the outcome of a plebiscite. Surrey’s is the premier RCMP detachment in all of Canada.
On Nov. 5, 2018, the council of the working day, led by McCallum, served see to the provincial and federal governments that it would finish its agreement with the RCMP to established up its individual force.
4 many years and a single civic election later, on Nov. 14, 2022, the present-day council led by Mayor Brenda Locke made the decision on a 5-4 vote to maintain the Surrey RCMP as this city’s law enforcement of jurisdiction rather of forging ahead with the Surrey Law enforcement Service.
Meantime, on Friday the SPS issued a push release that it is “celebrating the graduation of the very initial course of SPS recruits from the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) Police Academy on March 10th.”
“These fourteen Certified Municipal Constables will now officially commence their policing professions here in Surrey, with their deployment into operational policing starting on March 13th,” the press launch states.
A statement attributed to Chief Constable Norm Lipinski extends his congratulations to the recruits.
“This will endlessly be a sizeable memory for these new police officers, and it is an similarly vital milestone for Surrey Police Services,” the statement reads. “I appear ahead to performing with these officers and the quite a few other individuals who will graduate from long run JIBC classes sporting the SPS uniform.”
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