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Bomb threat hoax in City MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
Monique TAMMINGA/Langley Times
The area around the Langley City 7-Eleven was blocked off by police after a bomb threat was called into an office building beside the convenience store on Tuesday morning.
A bomb threat called into the office building beside the Langley City 7-Eleven brought in police, who taped off the area to investigate early Tuesday morning. By 10 a.m., Langley RCMP determined the threat was a hoax. “But we have to take all bomb threats seriously and for the protection of the public we had to take all the precautions and clear the building,” said Langley RCMP Sgt. Ravinder Pawar. “We encourage the public to be vigilant and always call police if they see a suspicious package or if a bomb threat is called in.”
City crime rate nearly twice B.C. average Violent crime, property crime up in police-reported crime rate stats released by Statistics Canada DAN FERGUSON Times Reporter
The City of Langley crime rate was nearly double the B.C. average and almost three times the Canadian average in 2012, according to new policereported figures released by Statistics Canada. A Times comparison of the
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stats for the City with the Township of Langley and three other major B.C. communities (Surrey, Abbotsford and Vancouver) shows the City had the highest rates of violent crime and property crime last year, as well as the worst crime severity index and highest overall crime rate of the five. Statistics Canada reported the
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City of Langley had a per capita crime rate of 14,546 incidents per 100,000 people, an adjusted number that is higher than the actual total of 4,104, but allows a proper comparison with the crime rates in other communities. Those numbers mean a resident of Langley City was roughly twice as likely to experience crime than the B.C. average of 7,727 incidents per 100,000, and close to three times as likely than the Canadian average of 5,588 incidents per 100,000. Residents of the City were
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also more likely to experience crime than residents of the neighbouring Township of Langley (7,514 per 100,000), Abbotsford (5,194), Surrey (9,439) and Vancouver (6,868). The Langley City numbers are also substantially higher than the figures for Kelowna, which has been identified in some news reports as the community with the highest crime rate in Canada at 8,875 incidents per 100,000. However, the Kelowna results were based on a preliminary release of the crime rates for census metropolitan areas that
did not break down results for each individual city across Canada. The rate of crime in Langley City was also rising while it was falling in most other communities, going up eight per cent in the City while the national rate fell three per cent and the provincial rate dropped two per cent. Langley also had the worst Crime Severity Index (CSI) rating of the five cities in The Times survey sample, roughly double the provincial figure. continued, PAGE 5
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