Drug related crimes spike in Kamloops in 2016
KAMLOOPS — RCMP received nearly 43,000 calls for service in 2016, almost 12,000 of those calls were recorded in the fourth quarter.
Crimes against property were up more than 10 per cent from the same time period in 2015. It’s an increase that Kamloops RCMP Superintendent Brad Mueller says relates to a spike in drug activity.
“The increases in property crime are being driven by the drug activity,” Mueller said, “so … break and enters and all that are down, but the smaller property crime is being driven up, and certainly that’s consistent with what we see from a certain segment of vulnerable people in the community that are looking to support a drug lifestyle.”