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Since January 2021 the Delta Police had been conducting a limited-use pilot project with body-worn cameras, and was primarily using the cameras during officer training. The pilot was scheduled to conclude at the end of May. However, increased violence during the ongoing gang conflict caused the Delta Police Board to approve an additional use for the cameras during its meeting this week, and to extend the pilot until September, 2021.

As the province’s public health emergency regarding substance related harms enters its sixth year, the BC Coroners Service reports that toxic illicit drugs have claimed the lives of 158 British Columbians in March 2021.

A fully loaded dump truck with a full trailer was pulled off the road in a recent enforcement blitz, after officers found the trailer had absolutely no braking power. In addition, several tires on the truck trailer combo had severe defects, requiring immediate replacements.

Delta Police is focused on ‘community policing’, but it can be hard to explain what that really means. For one Delta family and their troubled son, community policing meant a prolonged effort between police and other agencies, to convince the youth that he was worth fighting for.

On Thursday, March 11, at approximately 7:15 a.m., a woman walking in the 11300-block 84th Ave, near the parking lot of the North Delta Community Park observed a male touching himself inappropriately. The suspect is described as a South Asian male, between the ages of 20-30, tall, with a slim build, dark hair and facial hair. The man was wearing a blue hoodie, underneath a jean jacket vest at the time of the incident.