Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke says the “leadership ball” is now in the provincial government’s court concerning the city’s policing transition after council peppered Chief Constable Norm Lipinski of the Surrey Police Service and Assistant Commissioner Brian Edwards of the Surrey RCMP with roughly an hour’s worth of questions about its current state on Monday night.
“We’ve heard today that there is much to be done to get the framework and all the legal agreements in place,” Locke said, summing up the hour.