Prot
ecting and Encouraging Growth
We’re a volunteer organization supported by the RCMP who keeps our community, streets, homes and our elderly safe and cared for.
The South Cowichan Community Policing Advisory Society, is a not-for-profit, charitable society providing crime prevention, community safety programs and resources for the community.
We work in partnership with individuals, groups, agencies and the local RCMP detachment in an effort to make the South Cowichan region a safer place to live, work and play.
In addition, we’ve helped sponsor:
Want to help support our programs? Make a donation:
Our 3 part profile on Shaw TV
Our meetings are open to the public
Location: South Cowichan Community Policing office in the Mill Bay Village beside panago Pizza
Address: 2B 845 Deloume Road, Mill Bay, BC V0R 2P2 [google map]
Date: The first Monday of each month
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Our community is growing by leaps and bounds and in an effort to provide the programs we envision, our membership needs to grow accordingly. If you have a passion for community safety and would like to be a Director with SCCPAS please contact us:
Email: sccp@shaw.ca
Sarah Davidge-Cardinal, Manager Programs & Volunteers
250-732-3591 or Office: 250-929-7222
Current recruiting PT Office Co-ordinator for South Cowichan Community Policing office – Mill Bay
Cowichan Bay Office: 250-597-1710 or Email: ccpes@shaw.ca
SCCPAS Board of Directors for 2022
President: Bob Collins
Phone: 250-516-3946
Email: BobCollins.sccp@shaw.ca
Vice President: Luke Mills
Phone: 250-929-7222
Email: LukeMills.ccpes@shaw.ca
Treasurer: Anne Sharpe
Directors: Bob Collins, Luke Mills, Anne Sharpe and Ethan Polsom
Directors Responsibilites:
Bob Collins – RCMP Liaison/Public Relations/Funding
Luke Mills – RCMP Liaison/Road Safety/Speed Watch
Anne Sharpe – Treasurer/Payroll
Ethan Polsom – Youth Director & Community Safety
Vacant – Secretary
Vacant – Media/Social Media
Vacant – Citizen on Patrol/Bike 529/Shawnigan Lake Area
Our History
Sergeant Dave Free, NCO in charge of the Shawnigan Lake RCMP Detachment, can be credited with spearheading efforts to get community policing off the ground. He recruited Bob MacInnes, a long-term Mill Bay resident and community supporter. Bob ended up being the founding chair of what became known as the South Cowichan Community Policing Advisory Society.
“In March, 1997 a Community Police Advisory Panel was formed. Interested Community Citizens started out with the best interests of the South Cowichan Community at heart, and the realization that the Police alone cannot maintain a sense of Community pride without the assistance of those who live in it and care for it”. (Quote from an article written to the South Cowichan Life in Feb 1998)
In June of 1998 the Federal Government announced Phase II of its Strategy including a commitment of $32 Million annually to assist communities throughout Canada to develop programs and partnerships that will prevent crime in the first place.
The key goals were:
- To increase the development of broad, community-based partnerships that address local crime prevention concerns;
- To increase public support of and support for crime prevention; and
- To increase the capacity of diverse communities to address crime.