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A copy of a letter writ- ten to the Prime Minister, Premier Clark, Mayor Owen and the Immigration Minister was given to me recently.

It's written by a Vancouver police sergeant, a veteran of nearly 30 years in the war on crime.

It is, in part, a retlection on what he has seen in his career, But it is also an expression of the frustration he feels at the way the system has abjectly failed the citizens of our country.

What follows are the words, not of an academic or a politically correct ivory tower resident, but ofa street cop.

[asked for, and received, his permission co share his thoughts with you.

“TP recently read an article in the Canadian Reader's Digest magazine that really impacted upon me just how much our country and my

rovince have gone down hill. That this would reach print in this middle-of-the- road magazine is a strong indicator as to how low we have actually sunk.

“The story involved young heroin-addicted per- sons from across the county, dying trom overdoses or going through rehab in Port Moody B.C., a minuscule municipality about 30 km from the downtown drug- infested core of Vancouver.

“The article outlines hero- in usage by tcens in high schools, devastated parents, deeply cancerned teachers and police officials trying to deal with the problems of Asian drug traffickers in that

~ tiny community.

“I have been with the police for 28 years and dur- ing that period of time I have seen all sorts of changes to

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the City of Vancouver and none have been for the ber ter. Ecan recall almost to the day when the first Uzi machine gun was found in Vancouver and it was in the

“Everyone can’t be a victim; there has to be a

predator

somewhere.”

—— Vancouver Police Sgt. Al Robson

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hands of an alleged refugee.

“[ watched as the one- time drug trade controlled in the most part by Caucasians, mostly of Canadian birth, is now being controlled by the guests we welcomed into this country.”

“In the "80s, when | worked the drug squad in Vancouver, heroin traffickers were given five- to 10-year sentences and the street level trafficker was deathly afraid of the police.

“Today traffickers see fines of less than $500 or proba- tion as a standard and drug trafficking is so blatant that

ce sergeant says

—1,, Leo ” Knight

the police can’t keep up with the number of on-sight deals being made on the streets fet alone the phone trade and

major importation purchases.

“Thad 12 vears on the job when Vancouver had its tirst drive-by shooting and since then we have gang murders in abundance. The deceased and the shooters are not, in the most part, of Canadian birth.

“It is extremely difficult to write a letter of this nature without being politically incorrect. But the evidence is overwhelming that some of the alleged refugees from Honduras, Vietnam, India, China, El Salvador and other places of the world, including Russia and Iran, have set upon this country like jackals.

“They have set up their own rules, their own meth- ads of policing their criminal activities, and their own war zones, the likes of which the police of Canada have never seen before.

“[ see a great shame on this country, and in particular the government, in the man- ner in which we portray our- selves to be complete fools by allowing this catastrophe to continue.

“The cost to the law-abid- ing citizens of Canada is tremendous to support the legal system and the police as well as the convicted refugee and his support group.

“To what end?

“It recycles. It keeps the ‘system’ alive and employed. And it takes huge amounts of money to operate. Taxpayers” money. Actually, my moncy! And I don’t Jike the way ir’s

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being spent ar all.

“Jn British Columbia we support those whose choice in hfe is to be drug-addicted.

“We supply them welfare, which goes to their drag sup- plier, medical programs and care, and free ncedles to inject their deug of choice.

“B.C is even considering giving them warm indoor locations in which to inject themselves te get high to eseape the world “they” made for themselves, This of course will increase the drug trade as more users come into Vancouver to be a part of yet another open-door, open-arm policy.

“Personaily, T don’t want to pay to raise addicts or give them money tor their drugs, or pay the healthy and able- bodied welfare to Nop around coffee shops.

“] don’t want sacoting galleries erupting like boils in neighbourhoods. 1 don’t want to pay for a justice sys tem out of control or judges with spines of tapioca and sugar plum thoughts of the purity of the law rather than common sense.

“There just doesn't seem to be any responsibility or accountability taken on by these individuals for them- selves, their actions or deci- sions. Everyone can’t be a victim; there has to be a predator somewhere.

“The answer to most of these problems exists in the Narcotic Control! Act, Controlled Substance Act, Criminal Code and Imunigration Act.

Ores edt .

If utilized properly, with- out searching for excuses not to inearcerate or deport, and

all the other associated non- sense, this country could probably slowly start to turn around,

“More prisons may have to be a reality until it does.

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