BC’s highest-ranking police officer warned the province that cutting their budget would reduce or even stop their ability to investigate the Highway of Tears.
In a memo obtained by the media, Deputy Comissioner Craig Callens said that a cut to funding for the E-PANA division would result in no further investigations into missing and murdered women along Northern BC Highways.
Staff Sergeant Wayne Clary has been working the investigation and doesn’t want to get stuck when he feels like his team is making progress.
“We still, however, have some [leads] that we still need to work on, but I will say that a lot of our work is behind us,” he says.
The documents show that the E-PANA division has decreased from 70 members to 12, currently.
Their budget has also been chopped from $5 million to just $1.8 million in 2013.
(With files from the Canadian Press).
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