Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke says she refuses to take marching orders from a bureaucrat in Victoria after the province’s director of police services fired off a “rude” letter to her on Oct. 4 protesting that a lack of leadership and engagement at Surrey City Hall is causing concerning delays to the city’s policing transition.
“The letter was disappointing but it’s inaccurate and it’s obviously trying to point blame but it’s completely inaccurate, his statements are completely inaccurate, he doesn’t know the picture on the ground and I guess the other piece is I have no idea why Glen Lewis would be writing me,” Locke told the Now-Leader Tuesday (Oct.