Surrey- Surrey Police Service (SPS) continues to hire and deploy more police officers leading up to November 29, 2024, when SPS will take over policing and law enforcement for Surrey. This week, SPS is deploying nine more experienced police officers, coming from both municipal and RCMP agencies.
“In this deployment, six experienced Constables and two Sergeants will be deployed to the Frontline and one Constable will join Traffic Services. In total, 225 SPS officers are deployed into eight different units.” SPS says in a press release.
As the policing transition progresses, it will be important for SPS officers of various ranks, including Staff Sergeants, Inspectors and Superintendents, to be part of subsequent deployments to provide the leadership and depth of supervision and experience needed to smoothly transition policing to SPS. In addition, officers with investigative skills and other specialized skill sets will also be important additions to deployments in the coming months. Frontline policing is an important part of policing, but many other sections and units are necessary for a policing service to deliver comprehensive public safety to a community.
“We are moving forward with a specific view to becoming the police of jurisdiction in Surrey this November,” says Chief Constable Norm Lipinski. “These officers and the hundreds that joined SPS before them, want to work for a top tier, progressive, community-based police service and we continue to deliver that to our officers and to the residents of Surrey.”