The Surrey Police Board and Surrey Police Union are taking Mayor Brenda Locke to task for “erroneously” claiming the Surrey Police Service is running a deficit budget over $26 million but Locke is standing by that claim.
“They are running a deficit budget, $26 million-plus deficit budget,” she told the Now-Leader on Jan. 17. “Those aren’t my numbers, those are the numbers we get from our accounting department at city hall.
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