The Squamish R.C.M.P.The Squamish R.C.M.P.The Squamish R.C.M.P. Detachment comprises 34 officers who provide a wide range of policing services to the community. The officers are committed to a proactive consultative team approach to working with all community members.
Police Liason Program
There is at least one officer assigned to each school in Squamish all the way up to Lions Bay. The purpose of this program is to make youth aware of what the police's role is and what the laws are in Canada in regards to youth. The police liason officer tries to attend the school as much as possible to hold informative visits or just to wander the hallways to interact with the youth. This is a great program which lets youth know that the police are on their side and that they are looking out for their best interests. The police liason officers give a number of talks throughout the year on topics ranging from bicycle safety to sexual assault. Starting in September 1999 the R.C.M.P. will be handing out a brochure to every student of Squamish which includes lots of information. Students are able to take the brochure home and read it and then come back with some questions for the liason officers. The brochure includes important phone numbers for youth in need of help and information.
Block Watch
Block Watch is a free, community based crime prevention program with over 1000 members in Squamish. It is a program of "neighbour helping neighbour" in which residents on a street form a communication chain and are committed to watching out for each other and reporting all suspicious activity. It's aim is to reduce vandalism, theft, and other harmful activity in the neighbourhood.
For more information contact Shelly or Constable Dan Seward at 898-9611.
Block Parent
The Block Parent program is similar to the Block Watch program in it's goal to make communities safer; especially for children. Their aim is to educate children about street safety and to give them a place of refuge should they come upon a situation in which they are bullied, lost, hurt, ill, caught in sever weather, or freightened by a stranger. Block Parents provide food, drink, toilet fascilities, transportation, first aid, shelter and help to any child in need.
To become a block parent or for more information contact the Squamish R.C.M.P. at 898-9611.
R.C.M.P. Student Crime Prevention Assistant
Squamish now has a student crime prevention assistant who has been hired to hear the concerns of youth in the community. She has her own page on our site here.
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