LETTER: What\u2019s the real story with Surrey police chief\u2019s ouster?<\/p>\n
Published 9:00 am Tuesday, June 30, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor,<\/p>\n
As a resident of White Rock, with considerable interest in what\u2019s going on in the city that completely surrounds us, I am at a complete loss. What in heaven\u2019s name is going on with Surrey policing?<\/p>\n
We have reports of firings, mass resignations, chaotic board <\/a>meetings<\/a>, political <\/a>shenanigans<\/a>. But surely, in the interest of public safety, we need more clarity.<\/p>\n Sorry to say, but news reports only add to the confusion. Is there no regular columnist who serves as a city hall watcher, an insider who actually understands what\u2019s happening? Is this part of the mayor\u2019s continuing turf war with the province? Did the outgoing police chief do something wrong? Should we be concerned that the highly respected head of the police board resigned in a huff<\/a> over the police chief\u2019s dismissal?<\/p>\n There\u2019s just so many questions. Meanwhile, stories of overnight shootings, gang-wars and extortionists from foreign countries are daily occurrences. Someone, perhaps the Premier, has to step in and sort this quagmire out before lives are unnecessarily lost.<\/p>\n Paul Griffin, White Rock <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: What\u2019s the real story with Surrey police chief\u2019s ouster? Published 9:00 am Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Editor,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-771548","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\/771548","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=771548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}