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Edgemont residents, merchants meet with RCMP to cut area crime, violence

said EVMA

A STANDING-room-only

crowd packed

the meeting

room of the Capilano library in Edgemont Village Wed-
nesday night to discuss how to make their village a safer
place for merchants and their customers.

Mer-
PMA)

The
chants’

Edgemont Village

Association (E
scheduled the meeting with the
North Vancouver RCMP com-
munity policing officers well be-
fore a recent well-publicized
village incident in which a teenage
girl was beaten by a group of girls
for her Doc Marten boots.

But it was evident from = the
public turnout at what was to bea
private meeting that concerns
about safety and youth issues in

By A.P. McCred
News Reporter

the village go well beyond mer-
chants alone.

A pervasive “take back our
community’’ sentiment was evi-
dent during the meeting’s ques-
tion-and-answer period.

‘We want to return our village
to the quiet, safe community we

all remember it as."*
presidemt Jean Violet.

Approsiniately $0 local business
owners and employees heard
RCMP Const. Marty Blais
describe “'Business Wateb."” a
community-sponsored program
that borrows heavily from the
successful neighborhood Block
Watch system.

“Tf you reduce the opportunity,
you reduce the crime,’ Blais
sepeatedly said during the two-
hour meeting.

Blais said the purpose of the
Businees Watch program is to
make the community safer by giv-
ing merchants the tools they need

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to discourage criminal activity in
the area.

Business Watch, he said, would
teach merchants a “pro-active
approach to dealing with crime”
by having the police work closely
with the community.

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- RCMP Const. Marty Blais

teach merchants how to alter their
business environments fo deter
criminal activity.

Merchants are also taught how
fo report crimes and how to assist
police during a criminal investiga-

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