Mental health and opioid crisis push Penticton community safety to brink: report
A new report says Penticton’s approach to community safety needs an overhaul, due to a lack of support from the BC government, rising homelessness and the current opioid crisis. Penticton RCMP can’t proactively serve community, local fire crews have been pulled from their primary duties and settlement appeals have increased 243% since 2017, newly elected … Read more