Port Alberni RCMP's officer in charge continues to be concerned about crime in the city.

"There is no discernible change in Port Alberni's severity of crime. In fact, I'm concerned for just how violent it is here," Inspector Kim Bruce said as she presented her latest crime statistics to Port Alberni City Council on Aug. 11. Her quarterly report was compiled before a pair of suspicious deaths that occurred in Dry Creek Park and an empty lot on Fourth Avenue, respectively.

In 2023 Stats Canada had Port Alberni's crime severity index at 218.16. Violent crime also dropped on the index from 222.72 to 216.72. That's something Bruce doesn't agree with.

"This is a bit of an area of inquiry for me that I'm continuing to work on," she said. "I'd like to know where we're seeing the improvement or

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