Early Tuesday morning, the majority of Grande Prairie's council voted in favour of ditching the RCMP and creating a local police force.
Debate on the topic went past midnight, with councillors eventually voting 8-1 in favour of replacing the RCMP.
"These decisions are not taken lightly," Grande Prairie mayor Jackie Clayton told her colleagues. "We are elected to make decisions. We cannot abdicate our decision-making process. We need to make a decision today." prepared by consulting group MNP pegged the five-year cost to phase in a Grande Prairie police service at $169 million, roughly $19 million more than staying with RCMP.
The transition will take five years. Local police are expected to start serving the city of 63,000 within three years.
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