Burglary
battle
waged

BY ANNA MARIE D’ANGELO
News Reporter

IT’S late in the afternoon on
a rainy Thursday and Const.
Scott Simpson is patrolling
the lush, quiet neighborhoods
of what the police call the
Cap-Pemberton zone.

“Because you are here, we won't get
one (a residential burglary report).”
laughs Simpson, a nine-year Mountie
veteran who hus been working at the
North Vancouver detachment fur about a
year.

Most police officers cruising the area
expect to get one to three burglary
reports during a 12-hour shift.

“There are just so many of them hap-
pening. They get to be mundane for
police, but the people are so upset. They
are scared to go into their own houses
sometimes,” said Simpson.

Cap-Pemberton, a vast, mainly resi-
dential area of North Vancouver, covers
the top of Grouse Mountain to the water-
front. Capilano Road is its western
boundary; its eastern boundary runs at
an angle from Mosquito Creek to the top
of Lonsdale Avenue.

Cap-Pemberton has of late been a
favorite area for burglars on the North
Shore, although “City South” (the
Lower Lonsdale area) tops the statistics
for numbers of burglaries reported.

Most residential burglaries occur dur-
ing the day when people are at work.
Police find out about them around dinner

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A North Vancouver District coun-
cillor wants to know whether the
public can recover approximately
$100,000 from a former employee
of the North Shore Economic
Development Commission
(NSEDC).

BY MARTIN MILLERCHIP
Contributing Writer

Coun. Ernie Crist asked fellow councillor

- Don Bell the question during Monday night's

council meeting.

Bell is the district's NSEDC representative.

Quoting from a NSEDC press release Crist
said: “The North Shore Economic Development
Commission is secking (legal advice to obtain)
the return of funds which were paid to consult-
ing firms controlled by a former employee of
the conunission.

“The loss occurred between late 1992 and
February of this year and amounts to approxi-

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mately $100,000."

As Mayor Murray Dykeman attempted to
restrict debate to reports from council represen-
tatives, Crist continued: “My question to you
Coun. Bell is ‘Do you think the public will have
an opportunity to recoup those funds?’ ”

Bell later told council, “There is an RCMP
investigation regarding the suspected actions of
one of the employees und there is also potential
civil action to be investigated by the commis-
sion.” ;

Bell later refused to name vs
the employee referred to in the
NSEDC press release but con-
firmed the NSEDC had only
two employees in the period
between late 1992 and February of this year.

A March 22 NSEDC oppress release
announced that economic development officer
Bonnie Pyplacz was “no longer employed by
the North Shore Economic Development
Commission.”

Bell told a News reporter Monday, “It is not
the commission that has been under any kind of
investigation, it has been the actions of one of
the employees of the commission.”

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The full text of the May 10 NSEDC press
release reads:

“The North Shore Economic Development
Commission is seeking legal advice to obtain
the return of funds which were paid to consult-
ing firms controlled by a former employee of
the commission.

“An audit has determined that the payments
ought not to have been made and the employee
responsible has been terminated.

\ The loss occurred between
late 1992 and February of this
year and amounts to approxi-
mately $100,000.

“The employee had the
responsibility for approval of
the consultant's accounts and did not discl
her superiors or the directors of the commis
that she had any personal involvement with the
firms she controlled and whose bills she
approved for payment.

“The commission is cooperating fully with
the RCMP investigation of this former employ-
e's actions,

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