Oceanside Community Safety

This is a short trip down memory lane with a retired traffic cop: me. I've just recently completed a round trip from Vancouver Island to the West Kootenays and back and had plenty of time to think along the way. There were ghosts along Highway 3 from the Manning Park works yard to Rock Creek, one of my old patrol areas.

During this time period the Oceanside RCMP received 319 complaints.

Did you know that if you hold a garage sale you are legally responsible to ensure that items sold whether they are new or used are safe and meet current regulations? Common items such as electronics, baby gates, car seats, strollers, toys and cosmetics to name a few are a potential safety risk. The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) is administered by Health Canada whose purpose is to prevent dangers to ones health or safety from consumer products.

Link: Facts for Garage Sale Vendors

Oceanside Community Safety's Traffic Watch group performed 13 deployments during the month of May 2019 contributing 53 hours of volunteer time.

No one wants to experience a theft from their vehicle such as cell phone, garage door opener, change, music player, etc

Through our Lock out Auto Crime Program vehicles are checked and our volunteers place Crime Prevention Notices (CPN) on the windshields of parked cars advising their findings. We look for items such as anti theft devices, personal belongings left in view, open windows/sunroofs, license plate expiry and sticker build up. If OCS Volunteers put a CPN on your windshield that includes a Happy Face you have helped Lock out Auto Crime.

OCSV's Michael Garland speaks with The Beach FM's Dave Graham discussing upcoming events.

During this time period the Oceanside RCMP received 280 complaints.

Oceanside Community Safety serves the community by operating two offices in the Oceanside area.

Visit us in Parksville at City Hall, 100 Jensen Avenue East, or Qualicum Beach, Town Hall, 104-660 Primrose Street.

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If I were to ask you what a flag person's job was, what would you reply? Assure orderly movement of traffic through a highway obstruction of some sort? Help everyone involved to be safe as they work on the highway? Why then do some drivers treat flagpersons so badly?