Judge orders information sealed in Surrey’s police transition case

Justice Kevin Loo sealed three of six pieces of information contained in an affidavit as the City of Surrey and the provincial government face off in court over the city’s policing transition.

He refused to seal information concerning SPS facilities and equipment, including software and IT systems, human resource strategies for reducing vacancies, and consultation with Indigenous governing bodies. “It’s too much detail, in my submission, about police planning and operational matters to be made public really for no reason,” the Province’s lawyer, Trevor Bant, argued. “It doesn’t relate to anything that is at issue.”“It’s my responsibility to make sure that the court principle, or the principle of court openness, is impacted as little as possible by a sealing order,” the judge noted.

“All the City is saying is transparency. The court should have, and the parties should have, what the minister had,” Dennis said. Last week saw sabre-rattling from both sides concerning this court case, with Farnworth maintaining it won’t have an impact on the transition. The City’s counsel argued that, contrary to a May 2023 agreement between the mayor and premier, “and repeated representation by the Province to Surrey and the public, aligned with the provisions of the Police Act that it was for the City to decide on its model for policing” and “without a plan for a transition away from the RCMP — Surrey’s police of jurisdiction today and for the past 70 years — could be carried out feasibly and safely with the minister to the contrary later telling Surrey, in...

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