RCMP requests low-res traffic footage from City of Richmond 100+ times

Richmond News

RCMP has requested footage from the city’s traffic cameras more than one hundred times already this year.

The City of Richmond installed 110 closed-circuit cameras last year at intersections throughout the city. …

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, who was at the committee meeting for the item, said he fully supported this motion.

Brodie said, based on a previous discussion with Solicitor-General Mike Farnworth, he felt Farnworth would be on board to use the cameras to investigate crime, but “the person standing in the way was the privacy commissioner.” …

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