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By Michael Reeve

KAMLOOPS RCMP 2025

‘Substantial decrease’ to property offences in 2025: Kamloops’ top cop

Jan 8, 2026 | 4:38 PM

KAMLOOPS — Kamloops RCMP Detachment Commander Supt. Jeff Pelley held his end-of-year media scrum on Thursday (Jan. 9), discussing a wide range of successes and challenges for the region. 2025 marked the first full year of body worn cameras for the Kamloops RCMP. The Mounties dealt with one homicide within city limits, while moving along historical cases with multiple charge recommendations to the Crown. Elsewhere, tensions calmed on a gang war that began back in 2024.

Entering 2025, the areas of focus for the Kamloops RCMP included reducing violence and property crime, reducing collisions and impaired driving, and working to deal with repeat offenders within the community.

“We’ve had a substantial decrease in a number of our property offences that were a priority, in addition to violent crimes,” said Pelley. “We have substantially reduced our break-and-enters to businesses, our break-and-enters to residences. We’ve seen a 27 per cent decrease in [break-and-enters] to businesses.”

Pelley continued to note break-and-enters to residences were down 10 per cent, while theft of motor vehicles was down 27 per cent. 

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“When we focused on our high risk offenders, or ReVoii (Repeat Violent Offending Intervention Initiative) offenders and priority offenders, that has been a great success with respect to that. However, we do see the challenges of repeat offenders back into the community.”

The Kamloops detachment and the Crime Reduction Unit is currently monitoring 26 different individuals — 13 through the detachment’s repeat offender program and another 13 in the region’s ReVoii program.

“Eight of the 13 in Kamloops are currently in custody,” said Pelley, speaking to the 25-person regional ReVoii program. “We are consistently assessing and there are some offenders who we add to this program or remove from the program. Currently, we have 13 prolific offenders as a separate program that we focus on and seven of those currently remain in custody with one outstanding.”

The metrics from Pelley are counter to the opinion of many in Kamloops who feel crime is rising, with the superintendent noting issues remain with underreporting. 

“We do have some crimes that I think are underreported, absolutely. Again, we go with the metrics and an analytical approach with respect to it and we do focus on those offenders.”

Pelley did state that not all social issues and concerns within the city do not reach the level of criminal acts. 

CFJC News will have more from Supt. Pelley on Friday (Jan. 10), looking at the first year of body-worn cameras for the detachment, and the work done to calm the tides of a gang war in the city.