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Common sense lacking in RCMP amalgamation idea

With added wings and rocket power, these cruisers could be sent up from the new launch pad
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I have written the Minister about keeping the Shawnigan RCMP detachment in the South End and to move forward on construction of a new building for them on the land that the CVRD has set aside for them. There was also a petition about this that was presented to the Minister and yet, there has been no final decision. Incredible.

I suggested that the Minister and some of his desk jockeys take a ride along in a cruiser from the proposed new site in North Cowichan through Duncan as if responding to a serious incident on the Malahat. This should be done during the week in the noon hour and later in the afternoon. Then do the same from the site in Mill Bay. This would give a realistic timing for a response.

It is not all about finances. It is about common sense, which seems to lacking here.

Ed Aiken, Cobble Hill