Pubdate: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 Source: Surrey Leader (CN BC) Copyright: 2003 Surrey Leader Contact: http://www.surreyleader.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1236 Author: Kevin Diakiw KEEPING COPS ON OPERATION SWEEP Enhanced policing in Whalley will cease in a few weeks if funding isn't found to keep extra officers in the area. As part of Operation Clean Sweep, 10 officers have been posted in the area, stopping cars, cyclists and vagrants in an attempt to clamp down on the amount of drugs and prostitution in Whalley. Those officers have been on overtime, and that funding runs out at the end of this month. Surrey's public safety committee has asked the city manager to prepare a request to council for more money to keep up the pressure in the area. "Operation Clean Sweep has funding in place until the end of September, and of course when that ends, the bad element will return to the levels it was before," said Coun. Gary Tymoschuk, who chairs the pubic safety committee. The city manager has been directed to seek funding for the rest of this year, and "to further look at funding in 2004." Tymoschuk says the Whalley clean-up will require a sustained effort. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin