Flag Raising at New Detachment Makes Opening Official
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Prince George, B.C. – With Lheidli T’enneh drummers and dancers, red serge and the singing of the national anthem, the flags have been raised at the new detachment building for the Prince George RCMP.
The flags for Canada, B.C., City of Prince George and the Lheidli T’enneh, were raised at a noon hour ceremony in front of the new detachment.
“We have a great relationship with the Lheidli T’enneh community and we are more than honoured to have that flag flying over our detachment” said Superintendent Eric Stubbs. “We thank the RCMP for that, and doing this (raising the Lheidli T’enneh flag) in honouring our people” said Lheidli T’enneh Chief Dominick Frederick.
The building is not only home to the Prince George RCMP, it is also home to the City’s bylaw services department and Community Policing.
(at right, Redina Boyd and Edie Frederick dance to the beat of the Lheidli drummers)
Superintendent Stubbs says the flag raising closes a chapter on the development of the new detachment “This is an important event, it formally says we are working in this new detachment, no more talk, we are here and we couldn’t be more pleased.” Although he will soon be leaving Prince George to take on a new role in Ottawa, Supt. Stubbs says people have been asking him if he was crazy to leave, given the fact the detachment is now in its new facility “I am a little bit I guess, but what I am most pleased about is not what I won’t get, but the 200 municipal employees and RCMP members who will work in this building and get to enjoy this great, great detachment, and that pleases me and eliminates any disappointment I have.”
Superintendent Stubbs thanked those who played a role in the development of the detachment, with a special thank you to Rob Whitwham, Director of Civic Facilities in Prince George who Stubbs says has been working on this project since the 90’s. Supt. Stubbs says the building will make a difference “It will do nothing but help us in making Prince George a safe city to live in, by having such a great building to work out of.”
Comments
How about the flag of Scotland as well, to honor the early explorers and traders who conquered much adversity to found this great city.
The only reason Stubbs has a great relationship with the Lheidli Tâenneh community is that they keep his arrest statistics up and a couple dozen constables employed full time.
Love the ceremonial costume the blond dancer was wearing…
….the “building” will make Prince George a safe city to live in….”. If you say so, sir.
So before in the run down old building you gave us lousy policing… Hmmm always thought it was who the police are and what they do that makes a good police force, not the building they are in. Learn something new everyday I guess.
I think there was a movie made about you guys…if I recall it starred Jack Lemmon, and Walter Matthau…anyway those were fictional characters that would have gone out of their way to find the negative in everything and everyone around them!
Life must a big huge barrel of monkeys when everything and everyone is viewed through such a dark, negative lens!
ENJOY!
Not negative nor dark….just being objective with a teeny bit of well deserved cynicism added to the pot. How ’bout you, P Val?
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