The city has been at the top of province’s worst crime cities for multiple years
“Direct correlation with the cost of housing in Kelowna impacting ability to recruit officers’
Take Back Kelowna aim to increase crime reporting and say they are not a vigilante group
Kelowna also ranked seventh worse in the country for violent crime
‘It is easy to find yourself in a dangerous situation, or in legal hot water’
‘We’re on par for attending 3,000 mental health calls for service this year’
‘I would expect to see our staffing rates come up quite significantly in the next 90 days’
First three months of 2022 show a 30 per cent drop in street-entrenched crimes over previous quarter
The latest RCMP report shows assaults were up while property crime saw 12% dip in 2021
It will cost $75K to hire consultants to look at policing, bylaw and fire services
Data from 2020 shows the number of cleared cases has dropped over the last five years
An increase in assaults led the spike in crimes
Three incidents in Richmond are currently being invested as hate crimes, says RCMP Chief Superintendent Will Ng
The crime rate in Keremeos went down in four of the last five years
Greater Kelowna’s violent crime rate skyrocketed nearly 60 per cent
Forty-two more police officers in Penticton required to meet provincial caseload average
RCMP attribute change to increase in property crime which increased 23 per cent
