No decision, just a recommendation: Province throws back Surrey's policing question to the City

Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth recommends (but does not decide) Surrey transition to the SPS

Continue with the transition and we’ll help cover the costs. That’s the basic message attached to the provincial government’s recommendation that Mayor Brenda Locke wind-down the RCMP and make the Surrey Police Service the force of jurisdiction.

In a Friday morning news conference from Victoria, Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth hid behind the Polic…