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Penticton mayor attributes high police workload to homelessness in the Okanagan city Penticton Mayor John Vassilaki says the high police caseload in the Okanagan city is caused by the influx of homeless people from other areas with fewer services. Social Sharing Mayor John Vassilaki says the RCMP caseload is boosted by an influx of people from other communities Posted: Feb 10, 2021 8:15 PM PT | Last Updated: February 11 Penticton, B.C., Mayor John Vassilaki says his municipality's high crime rate and call volume to RCMP are due to an influx of homeless people from other communities.(Ben Nelm...

February 10, 2021 - 7:00 AM Was the Canada Emergency Response Payment responsible for a drop in the crime rate during 2020? It was a theory by Penticton RCMP Supt. Brian Hunter last summer when he put forward his hypothesis that fraudulently-obtained pandemic response payments of $2,000 per months may be responsible for a decline in crime in his city. Penticton’s top cop had clearly stated his theory was “purely anecdotal.” And it was a question Vernon councillor Kari Gares asked Vernon North Okanagan RCMP Supt. Shawna Baher at council's Feb. 8 meeting. It was also ...

(BEN BULMER / iNFOnews.ca) February 04, 2021 - 10:35 AM The number of RCMP files concerning Vernon's street entrenched population dropped by more than 50 per cent last year thanks to additional housing says one Vernon organization. Turning Points Collaborative Society executive director Randene Wejr pointed to additional housing created for the homeless as well as the federal government's CERB payment as reasons for the reduction in the crime rate involving the street entrenched population. "We believe that a lot of the illegal camping, open use type crimes that we see when...

Falling property crime is likely behind the drop in Penticton's crime rate in the last quarter of 2020, according to the city's top cop.In the fourt