Officers with Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia’s (CFSEU BC’s) Uniform Gang Enforcement Team (UGET) recently seized several weapons and a quantity of street drugs while deployed to the Okanagan.
UGET recently conducted active and high visibility enforcement in Kelowna and Vernon, including on those individuals that may be posing the greatest risk to public safety due to their involvement in gang or organized crime.
The CFSEU BC said that last week, UGET worked in partnership with the local RCMP to ensure that the team was briefed on local crime hot spots and received up-to-date intelligence to help direct their enforcement activities while in the area.
Over the four days that UGET was in the Okanagan, 65 vehicles were stopped and 193 people were checked, with the majority of those people connected to the street-level drug trade.
During their time in the Okanagan, UGET members seized, two airsoft guns, nine knives, one baton, one machete, one prong gun and two cans of bear spray, one Kodak WK18OC with magazines (AR-15 style rifle)
Also seized were quantities of suspected cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, Percocet and potentially deadly fentanyl.
"The attendance of CFSEU UGET teams into the Okanagan is always appreciated by the local detachments," said Superintendent Shawna Baher, Officer in Charge of the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP.
"CFSEU works very closely with the detachments and the CFSEU members are able to target specific offenders with drug, crime and/or gang ties and focus enforcement on them. We always see excellent proactive work completed by the team when they attend any of the local communities."
