'Everything is on the table,' Fundy Shores mayor says as communities question RCMP service
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Darrell Tidd kept hearing about break-ins in his community.
It was the summer of 2023, just a few months after the municipality of Eastern Charlotte was created in southwestern New Brunswick.
This swath of Charlotte County runs from the west boundary of New River all the way to the ferry to Deer Island and includes St. George and Blacks Harbour — home to about 7,700 people, by Tidd's estimate.
The municipality's new government, including Tidd, the Ward 6 councillor, was hearing from residents whose camps were broken into. Tidd felt the RCMP response was inadequate.
"What's at stake is nobody feels safe in their communities," he said in an interview with CBC News from St. George.
The province's public safety crime dashboard shows crimes against people rising between 2018 and 2022. Crimes against property also went up.
At a council meeting in July 2023, Tidd made a motion: to look at dropping the RCMP and adopting an alternative.
Eastern Charlotte wasn't the only community expressing concern about the RCMP's policing.
That July, the RCMP issued a statement warning residents against vigilantism after a car and home were burned on Deer Island. The island technically isn't part of Eastern Charlotte, but many consider it part of the community, Tidd said.
Island residents told CBC at the time they were frustrated by crime, including thefts, that often happened at night after the ferry stopped running.
No Mountie is stationed on the island full time, which makes it difficult for an officer to respond quickly from the St. George detachment on the mainland.
Tidd worried something similar would happen in Eastern Charlotte.
"We don't want to see vigilante justice and something drastic happen in this community," he said. "That's why we're saying we need more community-based policing here."
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