Bike patrol to be considered in next year’s budget
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Bylaw officers could be patrolling the streets of Vernon on bicycles next summer if the bike patrol program gets approved during the 2020 budget deliberations in a few months.
At its Tuesday meeting councillors voted to consider the option, which would fund two full time seasonal bike patrol bylaw officers from April to the end of October.
Bylaw services already tried to use bicycles last year for patrols but ran into some issues.
“The problem that we are finding is the encampments and some of the problems are so far flung in the community that they get on the bikes and they can patrol the parks and Polson Park but if it is the two full time officers who are dedicated to seasonal enforcement, they get called away to get a vehicle and pick up carts or clean up an abandoned camp on public property,” Geoff Gaucher, manager of protective services told council.
