‘FROM PAGE At6 morning with a snootful of eer-on.’’.-- Part of the problem, he _adds, .can_be traced to the police. “We as police in North Vancouver got to the point where we were not enforcing laws (controlling liquor) to the point that we should have been,’’ he says. From the back seat, Wiederick offers a defence, pointing out the force reacts to what the. public wants or will put up with. , The .conversatién refers back to some earlier thoughts Herman expressed in explain- ing how the enforcement unit © came about. ‘**The laws have always been there to control the situation,’’ he had said. ‘‘But our moral standards have "become so lenient and the use of alcohol in our society has become so free that people gather they have the right to drink and do whatever they want to do.” Fhe enforcement unit gtows out of the new com- muhity demand that something be done about the free flow of alcohol. At: 9:10 p.m. Saturday night something i is done. Her- han’ ‘wheels the car into the * ‘parking lot of the Westview Shopping Centre. , “We're. going to see if we can do some seizures,”’’ he says. From the parked car, the reporter watches. There’s a steady stream of traffic into the lot. attracted by the late Grab a “splitting-good” deal closing hour of the liquor store. Herman, who looks _like a long haul trucker in his. jeans, quilted jacket and d white baseball cap, “fades into the background as _~he stalks two kids waiting by _ a Mustang. When a third arrives carry- ing a case of beer, Herman pounces, producing his badge. The liquor is con- fiscated and the juveniles in- formed their parents will be notified that they have been caught in possession of alcohol. Over the next two hours the scene is repeated a dozen times. Minors who have escaped the scrutiny of the -government-employeed - tellers lose their liquor as do a handful of people, mostly male, who have legally pur- chased liquor and then-hop- ped into a car full of minors. Some don’t even make it as far as the liquor store. Once, while Herman is checking the ID of a young man in a hatch-back, a station wagon carrying five girls pulls into the parking lot beside him. Herman doesn’t even have to check their ID. “*Don’t even bother trying to go in there,’’ he says and then returns to the job at hand. The girls drive away. Wiederick, warming himself up in the car, com- plains that he’s having trou- ble spotting minors tonight. It’s perhaps understandable; he has been with the unit for less than a month and is still learning the procedures. His past experience during an 11-year RCMP career, which CONTINUED ON PAGE A18 tye When VanCity created the open mortpage idea back in 1959, we knew a lot of people hated we took conventional residential first mo ocked-in feeling. So es, made them open term, and kept on making them better. They look like other mortgages on the surface. The rates and payments are set for paid oft in e term. 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