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once or twice a year when the
roads are slippery with snow
: accumulation. -

On a quiet night, officers
may side bikes for °.0 hours
straight. ‘

_. Among the drawoacks of

» bike | squad work is rain.
’ Despite Gortex clothing, offi-
cers can get wet and don't
have a “nice warm patrol car”
to sit in. Another drawback is
dealing with suspected crimi-
- Mals in cars. .
“You have to choose what
you are going to do when you

Heavy training
RESCUE expert Gordon Sweetnam from Calgary (left) helped out during a vehicle extrication exercise —

Tuesday. He conducted a three-day theory and practice workshop on advanced heavy rescue for firefighters
at the Wes? Vanccuver works yard on Cypress Bow! Road.

ike squad patrols pubs, parks

are dealing with a vehicle.
You’ve traded 285 horsepo'
er for under one,” said
Macl cod.

“The nice thing is that if
there is something you can’t
deal with, you are just at the
other end of a radio te some-
one who an.”

The bike squad patrols
garks for things such as rowdy
teenagers: They conduct
liquor checks and drug
seizures, They are present at
bars and pubs at closing times.
Bike squad members are also
asked to be at any “high pro-
file” areas expected to involve
crowds.

Const. Adam Wyant said
he wanted to join a bike squad
when he joined the RCMP.
He said most officers were
into some form of cycling
before joining the bike squad.

Wyant calls the North
Shore a mountain bike
“mecca.”

A couple of weeks ago, the
bike squad received $10,000
worth of new bikes and equip-
ment from Ambleside Cycle
West Vancouver.

Each mountain bike is cus-
tom-fitted at a cost of $1,500.
Officers estimated the bikes
will last two years in hilly
North Vancouver before they

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

need to be replaced.

“The components take a
lot of wear. These a very, very
nice bikes,” said Wyant.

Bike squad members must
take a course and meet a stan-

‘dard of fitness (timed run)

and proficiency.

Their old bikes are used as
spares or by officers in com-
munity policing offices.

MacLeod said some old
mountain bikes were recently
donated to Keith Lynn
Alternate secondary school.

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Friday, October 1, 1999 — North Shore News — 5
More than 2,000 cases seized

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“We have had some large seizures of fresh salmon, this is
the largest of canned salmon ever,“ said Redekopp.

Redekopp said plain clothes and uniformed Lower
Mainland Fisheries officers were involved in the investigation.

Fish caught under a native food fishery licence cannot’ be
commercially sold.

Redekopp said 15,800 kg or 35,000 tb of fresh sockeye was
caught. Redekopp said the salmon was processed in the Lower
Mainiand and then taken to the North Vancouver cannery.

Redekopp said Alex was arrested on March 24, 1999, when
he was allegedly trying to sell the salmon.

Redekopp said the alleged sale was to a Lower Mainland
distributor and wholesaler. The salmon would then likely have
been sold in Canada.

According to search warrant information, the sockeye
salmon was caught by gill-net during an carly run in the Fraser
River near Chilliwack.

There was no commercial fishery in the area at the time.

The search warrant: states that Alex had a buyer for the
salmon.

x asked $85 a case for the more that 2,000 cases, accord-
ing to the search warrant. :

The search warrant on the North Vancouver plant was exe-
cuted on the same day as Alex’s arrest.

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