British Columbia is the most beautiful place in the world. But after a decade of the NDP, our communities have been devastated by crime. People don’t feel safe going downtown anymore. Families have to share parks and walking paths with chronic drug users who have been captured by horrific drugs like fentanyl.

The Conservative Party of BC will protect our streets. We will:  

• End street disorder by deploying more police to the hardest-hit neighbourhoods.
• Improve access to mental health care by expanding psychiatric services, crisis response and residential treatment.
• Introduce compassionate intervention so that people whose severe addiction, mental illness or brain injury are taken off the street and into care.
• Empower police to enforce the Mental Health Act and amend the Act so officers can connect people with mandatory treatment.
• Hire and deploy 250 more police officers by expanding the JIBC Police Academy.
• Add 500 RCMP officers and 150 civilian staff over five years to restore policing in rural and regional communities where crime is rampant.
• Hire 50 new Crown prosecutors, work with Ottawa to fund 20 more trial judges, and add sheriff and court capacity so criminals no longer walk free because of delays.
• End the NDP’s failed “safe supply” experiment and expand access to naloxone.
• Stop illegal drug use in hospitals, shelters and publicly funded supportive housing, so residents and staff are protected.
• Report public safety results openly, tracking repeat offending, bail compliance, court delays, treatment access and long-term recovery.