Police service poor in Okanagan Falls

DEAR EDITOR:

Happier new year to one and all.

On a visit to Okanagan Falls, I was amazed to see an RDOS animal control vehicle in town for the first time in 10 years.

I marvelled at what might have brought the driver to town when in the past there was need for them and no way of contacting them.

While innocently walking around the town later that night, I noted a suspicious RCMP vehicle driving around as if they were targeting “walkers” or enforcing a curfew. The driver failed to signal a turn, drove around more than one block, possibly did an illegal u-turn, and drove erratically across intersection lines on the highway.

If I had a phone with me I would have reported the driver to the authorities for suspicious behaviour and dereliction of duty. After all, where have they been during town fights, arsons, and a threatening breakand-enter individual at the local school.

Time to fire the RCMP from the whole of British Columbia.

Patrick Longworth

Penticton