BC Highway Patrol to stop responding to crashes, traffic incidents - BC | Globalnews.ca
BC Highway Patrol to stop responding to crashes, traffic incidents - BC | Globalnews.ca
The BC Highway Patrol will soon stop handling day-to-day traffic related calls in the Lower Mainland, but one local police chief says it amounts to downloading costs on his city.
“While it is important to go and respond to complaints about debris being on the highway and erratic drivers and those sorts of things, my people want to be far more proactive in the enforcement they do because they know they are making a difference.”
This is the kind of thing that gives people a reason to hate traffic cops. So the whole point of the highway patrol is not to patrol the highways, but to set up speed traps? I understand that speeding is inherently more dangerous than not speeding (from a physics point of view), but that shouldn't be the sole focus of traffic enforcement/safety. I'd argue erratic drivers and debris are both more important safety concerns than speeding. I for one would have a lot more respect for traffic cops if they actually moved around and dealt with bad driving where it's needed. And I'm sure mobile cops would be a lot more effective in slowing traffic too.
Thus Mike Farnworth's decree that Surrey adopt a yokel police force instead of using the traditional, national force, nullifying the vote and disenfranchising voters in the process, shows a bit more of his eventual privatisation hand.
Is this privatization? It's more of a jurisdictional issue than public vs private
Wait, we have highway patrol!? Never seen one here in PG, explains a lot actually.