West K mayor celebrates cop increase

The City of West Kelowna is celebrating the province’s decision to allocate six new RCMP officers and a civilian support person.

It follows recent meetings between Mayor Gord Milsom with the government in Victoria.

“West Kelowna Council and our neighbours have been asking the Province to step up since 2018. Now they have,” Milsom said, in part, in a media release Tuesday.

With the recent splitting up of the Central Okanagan RCMP Detachment, West Kelowna had been concerned the provincially funded officer shortage would be concentrated on the westside of Okanagan Lake.