West Shore RCMP Bi-Annual Report (January 1 to June 30, 2025)

January 1 to June 30, 2025

Annual Performance Plan (APP) priorities

NOTE: The APP follows the fiscal year (April 1 – March 31)

• Organized Crime & Drug Trafficking
• Road Safety with a focus on Distracted Driving and Speeding
• Property Crime with a focus on Theft and Shoplifting
• Mental Health Crisis Response
• Youth and Indigenous Community Relations

Summary (First half — January 1 to June 30, 2025)

• In the first half of 2025, West Shore RCMP attended 12,886 files vs 12,477 files in 2024, representing an increase of 3.17%.
• One fatal collision occurred on the Trans Canada Highway near 6 Mile Road in View Royal.

2025 Paid Resources and Calls for Service by Community

• 2025 Paid Resources by Community (percentage share)

  • Langford: 59.72%
  • Colwood: 19.03%
  • View Royal: 11.57%
  • Metchosin: 5.65%
  • Provincial: 4.03%

• Calls for Service by Community (Jan to Jun, 2025) — Paid resources distribution:

  • Langford: 56.57%
  • Colwood: 20.86%
  • View Royal: 12.49%
  • Metchosin: 3.73%
  • Highlands: 1.32%
  • Songhees Nation: 3.17%
  • Esquimalt Nation: 0.24%
  • Malahat: 0.85%

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Langford

• Calls for service (Jan–Jun):
  • 2025: 7,290 calls
  • 2024: 7,054 calls
  • Change: ↑3.3%

Collisions & Traffic Offences

Drug Offences

Property Crime

Mental Health

Notes:

• The above charts reflect the change in file count for the first half of each year, January 1 to June 30.
• The offences displayed in the charts are reflective of the Annual Performance Plan priorities and do not include all offences within that category.
• Impaired Driving Charges reflect files where an individual was charged for Impaired Driving, either under the Motor Vehicle Act or Criminal Code, for drugs and/or alcohol.
• Collision data includes files where police attended and does not include all collisions reported to ICBC.

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Colwood

• Calls for service (Jan–Jun):
  • 2025: 2,688 calls
  • 2024: 2,577 calls
  • Change: ↑4.4%

Collisions & Traffic Offences

Drug Offences

Property Crime

Mental Health

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View Royal

• Calls for service (Jan–Jun):
  • 2025: 1,609 calls
  • 2024: 1,642 calls
  • Change: ↓2%

Collisions & Traffic Offences

Note: One fatal collision occurred on the Trans Canada Highway near 6 Mile Road in View Royal.

Drug Offences

Property Crime

Mental Health

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Metchosin

• Calls for service (Jan–Jun):
  • 2025: 481 calls
  • 2024: 433 calls
  • Change: ↑11.1%

Collisions & Traffic Offences

Drug Offences

Property Crime

Mental Health

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Highlands

• Calls for service (Jan–Jun):
  • 2025: 170 calls
  • 2024: 136 calls
  • Change: ↑25%

Collisions & Traffic Offences

Drug Offences

Property Crime

Mental Health

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Songhees Nation

• Calls for service (Jan–Jun):
  • 2025: 409 calls
  • 2024: 418 calls
  • Change: ↓2.2%

Collisions & Traffic Offences

Drug Offences

Property Crime

Mental Health

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Esquimalt Nation

• Calls for service (Jan–Jun):
  • 2025: 31 calls
  • 2024: 35 calls
  • Change: ↓11.4%

Collisions & Traffic Offences

Drug Offences

No drug offences were reported on the Esquimalt Nation for the first half of 2024 or 2025.

Property Crime & Mental Health

• Mental health related files and Mental Health Act apprehensions were low / limited counts for both years; see internal data tables for details.

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Community & Youth Engagement

School & Youth Engagement

• In the first half of 2025, members of the Community and Indigenous Policing Unit (CIPU) attended schools in the West Shore 242 times.
  • 30 were calls for service or offences occurring at schools.
  • The other 212 attendances were for school liaison officer visits, student engagement, events, and other activities.
• In the first half of 2024, members of CIPU attended schools in the West Shore 128 times.
  • 20 of those attendances were calls for service or offences occurring at schools.
  • The other 108 attendances were for school liaison officer visits, student engagement, events, and other activities.
• In the first half of 2025, the West Shore RCMP traffic unit conducted 309 school zone patrols.
• As the school year ends, CIPU officers continue to be in the community, engaging with youth throughout the West Shore.

Restorative Justice

• In the first half of 2025, 24 individuals completed the Restorative Justice program.
  • Of the 24 individuals, 6 of them were youth.
  • 5 of the youth committed Theft & Shoplifting offences, while one was a non-criminal offence that required intervention.
• They were all successfully diverted from the judicial system by participating in community justice forums in which the accused took ownership for their actions and agreed to reparations and / or volunteer community service hours.

2025 Highlights

• West Shore RCMP Officers & Municipal Staff raised over $4,700 for Special Olympics BC at the 2025 Polar Plunge
• West Shore RCMP Officers Delivered Chocolates & Roses for Valentines Day to Seniors
• West Shore RCMP Officers Engage with Youth in Schools through many types of activities – including friendly lunchtime sports battles
• West Shore RCMP Officers attended & participated in the 2025 Sarah Beckett Memorial Run
• West Shore RCMP Hosted a Public Town Hall Open to All Community Members
• West Shore RCMP Hosted the Annual ‘Mountie Cup’ Senior Girls Basketball Tournament
• West Shore RCMP Officers spoke to over 1,000 Elementary Students at the Fire & Safety Expo in Metchosin
• West Shore RCMP Hosted the 2nd Annual ‘Barn Dance’ in Support of Cops for Cancer – Raising over $7,000 for Childhood Cancer
• West Shore RCMP held a Pink Shirt Day Colouring Contest – Over 1,000 Elementary Students Participated
• West Shore RCMP Bike Unit Teamed up with Bylaw Officers & Park Rangers to Conduct Joint Patrols
• West Shore RCMP Tl’Ches Spirit Canoe Program has welcomed 19 different Groups in the first half of 2025
• West Shore RCMP Traffic Unit held radar training for Frontline Officers

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Notable Investigations

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