$3.5M to be spent on bylaw and police enforcement
The announcement comes on the heels of a number of violent incidents across the city within a 12-hour period on Sunday.
Police said in a statement on Monday that a business owner was assaulted by a man unknown to him around 6 p.m. on Yates Street.
A man was arrested shortly after the attack and taken into custody by Victoria police but was later released on conditions, police said in the statement.
On Sunday morning, a man with a weapon threatened the Victoria Fire Department building on Queens Avenue, preventing the firefighters from entering the building to attend to a potential fire. He was subsequently arrested, police said.
Another “stranger-on-stranger attack” on Yates Street Sunday involved a man who assaulted a victim with an “edged weapon,” Victoria Police Chief Del Manak said.
The victim “ran into London Drugs to seek refuge for their safety,” Manak said, and the alleged attacker was subsequently arrested and was held in custody pending a court hearing.
There’s more than just policing:
In addition, the city will investigate and establish new short-term shelter options, including $1.95 million for up to two managed, secure and short-term emergency shelter spaces, $850,000 for operations and $300,000 for property rentals.
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The plan includes $624,000 in additional support for existing housing non-profits to expand existing relocation services, but doesn’t specify which non-profits will receive funding.
Yeah that was just the byline and I grabbed some excerpts about what triggered it.
Thanks for pointing this out though. Personally, I’m glad they’re taking action and coming at it from multiple angles.
It sounds like this has been planned for a while, and they’re hurrying it along. Like you say, I’m glad they’re covering the bases.
