News release
Open letter to the community - 2025 by the numbers
January 29, 2026
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Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, British Columbia
From: Ridge Meadows RCMP
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A video showing the three members of the Ridge Meadows RCMP’s senior leadership team walking around the city noticing statistics from the detachment’s 2025 policing data randomly appearing in different locations in the city.
[Three officers walking through Memorial Peace Park]
Inspector Martin Guay (Operations Officer) pointing to the sky: “Hey, what’s that?”
Superintendent Adam Gander (Officer in Charge): “What, up in the sky there?”
Insp. Guay: “Yeah!”
Supt. Gander reading the numbers in the sky: “Two-seven one-six-four. That’s the number of files we went to last year!”
[Officers continue walking down city streets and into a coffee shop where they sit down with their coffee].
Supt. Gander pointing to Insp. Guay’s coffee mug: “Hang on, I think there’s a number in your cup?”
Insp. Rochelle Kokkoris (Operations Support Officer) seeing numbers in the cup: “Oh yeah. Two hundred and thirty-two. That’s the number of excessive speeders we took off the road this year.”
[Officers continue walking down city streets and stop outside a shop window]
Insp. Kokkoris points at number on the window: “Oh hey, one thousand seven hundred and eleven.”
Insp. Guay: “Oh yeah, that’s the number of mental health calls we responded to in 2025.”
[Officers continue walking down streets and come upon a number appearing on the pavement]
Supt. Gander: “Hey, five thousand… Five thousand four hundred and seventy-six. That’s the number of hours our volunteers contributed last year.”
Insp. Guay: “Wow. That’s a lot.”
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2025 was another busy year for Ridge Meadows RCMP with many successes and challenges in public safety as well as changes and improvements to our service delivery. Our call volume of 27,164 was a slight increase over last year (+4%) with the growth and expansion of our community, all the while balancing operational policing requirements.
Our detachment was fortunate enough to welcome 19 new police officers to our team, working alongside our municipal partners to better serve our residents. Many of these officers were deployed as Frontline officers, the backbone of our operations and the first response to any ongoing and emerging policing issues in our community.
A large portion of our calls for service involve vulnerable persons in our community and ensuring they’re connected with the resources and support they need. Our officers responded to 1,711 mental health calls and investigated 533 missing persons files in 2025. Many of those involved our Mental Health Unit and connecting residents with housing and substance use supports.
In April, our Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) was given a revised mandate to focus primarily on downtown Maple Ridge. In 2025, CRU officers generated over 250 files and conducted almost 300 foot and bike patrols covering over 1,000 kilometres in the downtown core.
We also increased the number of officers in our Family and Youth Resource Support Team this past year. To date, the team has worked with more than 80 youth and families getting them support they need. The team also attended every school in the district and interacted and engaged with youth through several different community and school initiatives.
Our Road Safety Target Team continues to focus on the most high-risk driving behaviours. Two members of the team were officially recognized with Alexa Awards for removing over 40 impaired drivers from our roadways. Officers also stopped 232 drivers for excessive speeding in 2025, with over half of them driving more than 60km/h over the speed limit.
Our Street Enforcement Unit executed a number of search warrants for a variety of offences including drug trafficking, stolen property, frauds, and weapons offences. Our Serious Crime Unit and Investigative Support Team were involved in several high-risk investigations and submitted dozens of complex investigations to Crown Counsel for charge assessment. These sections were also available 24/7 to assist Frontline officers with investigative support and did so on over 100 different files of added complexity.
We continued our commitment to community engagement by hosting several events in the community including Coffee with a Cop, Pop with a Cop, volunteer and officer recruitment sessions, and our very first open house for City of Maple Ridge staff. Stay tuned for more information on our next open house for the public in 2026.
Our administrative support sections were also busy supporting all matters of operations. This included our Crime Prevention Unit which was involved in over 60 community events, and our Victim Services caseworkers who were called out over 100 times to assist victims of crime. Our Front Counter staff also handled over 11,000 walk-ins to our detachment and our Switchboard operators received over 12,000 calls from the public. Our amazing volunteers contributed over 8,000 hours of service to our community in 2025 (Crime Prevention: 5,476, Victim Services: 3,079) helping us deliver much needed programming and support to our community to enhance public safety.
We also received our detachment’s first marked electric police vehicle as part of an ongoing RCMP pilot project designed to evaluate the feasibility of zero-emission vehicles for policing across Canada.
Thank you to our residents, community stakeholders, businesses, mayors and council, and the Katzie First Nation for your continued and unwavering support. We’re proud of our work and what we accomplished in 2025, and we look forward to working with all of you in 2026.
Lastly, thank you to our detachment’s officers, staff, volunteers, and their families, for their exceptional dedication and commitment this past year, and continuing to ensure a safe and healthy Ridge Meadows community in the years ahead.
Superintendent Adam Gander
Officer in Charge
Ridge Meadows RCMP