LETTER: Who\u2019s supposed to keep Surrey citizens safe on the streets?<\/p>\n
Published 9:00 am Thursday, March 26, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor, <\/p>\n
Who is supposed to keep Surrey citizens safe?<\/p>\n
I put a call in to the SPS non-emergency number to report to them that right on the corner of 104 Avenue and 142 Street there was a pile of USED drug paraphernalia (used uncapped needles, pipes and prescription bottles) and was put through to a number at Surrey bylaws that was not answered by a person, but by a machine that says they don\u2019t take messages and disconnects the call.<\/p>\n
I called SPS back again and the woman that answered put me through to the same number.<\/p>\n
I called back a third time, and as the woman that answered was about to put me through to the same line again, I stopped her and told her what happened the last two times I called. Her response was \u201cthat isn\u2019t our job, thank you.\u201d And proceeded to hang up. I then called back a fourth time to speak to Chief Const. Norm Lipinski but was put through to his assistant\u2019s voice mail. <\/p>\n
My question is, who is supposed to protect the people and pets from the dangers on the streets of Surrey?<\/p>\n
Teri Temperton, Surrey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Who\u2019s supposed to keep Surrey citizens safe on the streets? Published 9:00 am Thursday, March 26, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-562749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}