Oceanside Community Safety

Sexual Violence is a general term that describes behaviours and actions that are sexual in nature are unwanted, coerced, and committed without consent. Sexual violence is a continuum of behaviours and actions including, but not limited to:

• Sexist jokes or explicit comments, catcalling, homophobic slurs, spreading rumours about someone’s sexuality
• Harassment, stalking,
• Sexual exploitation, trafficking
• Groping or unwanted sexual touching, flashing, sexual assault, child sexual assault, indecent exposure

Crime can be devastating to businesses small and large. Shoplifting, robbery, credit/debit card fraud, break and enter, vandalism and employee theft impacts the assets and safety of a business, no matter what size.

In an attempt to lay the foundation for preventing crime in the work place, businesses are encouraged to examine the physical layout, overall security, hiring practices and number of employees to access their internal and external vulnerabilities and threats.

Oceanside Community Safety distributed one hundred ICBC Reflectors and over one hundred RCMP stickers to children and adults participating in the Qualicum Beach Halloween Walk.

As citizens, we all have the potential to actively play a role in preventing violence against vulnerable populations within our society. In the course of one’s daily life, chances are that at some point has heard or seen someone act in a way that was derogatory, degrading, abusive or violent towards a fellow member of the community.

KIDS! Bring your grown-ups to go TRICK-OR-TREATING downtown Qualicum Beach this Hallowe'en between 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm! Just look for the Orange & Black Balloons to find your treats! PLUS so much more going on!

Halloween is meant to be a fun celebration, but it can also be risky if parents, children and drivers don't take precautions. Compared to an average day, crashes spike by 25 per cent on Halloween with 330 people injured in 920 crashes across B.C.

The sun is shining, the traffic is light and I'm actually enjoying my drive on the Inland Island Highway (technically speaking, it's a freeway) headed to Qualicum Beach. The only vehicle nearby is a car that is slowly overtaking me on the left. Not a problem as I'm travelling slightly under the 120 km/h speed limit.

Why, oh why, when there are literally kilometers of unused pavement in sight, does the driver of this vehicle have to make a lane change to the right putting their vehicle within about 3 vehicle lengths of my front bumper?

OCSV's Mike Garland speaks with The Lounge FM's Bill Dean discussing upcoming events.

1) File 17-9141. October 5, an employee of the Home Building Centre in French Creek called to report that someone over the previous evening had spray painted a business vehicle.

Is summer over already? It seems that the lawn is just coming out of dormancy in my yard but night time temperatures have dipped below 7 degrees. That and the fact that it is October the first means that it's time to get winter tires installed. Winter tire and chain up routes are now in effect.