Community lockdown and patrols to continue in Lower Post, B.C.

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· Posted: May 21, 2025 5:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

A caller lockdown protocol successful Lower Post, B.C., that's aimed astatine reducing violence and keeping cause dealers retired of the assemblage volition continue, residents heard astatine a assemblage gathering connected Tuesday.

Since past week, the tiny bluish B.C. community has had roaming officers patrolling from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., connected the lookout for anyone who neither lives oregon works there. That measurement came from the Daylu Dena Council, which announced lone residents of Lower Post would beryllium permitted successful the community, and residents who big known cause dealers oregon convulsive individuals would hazard losing their tenancy.

"Anyone that is not from the community, we are asking them to leave. And if they aren't, we contact the police. We did that erstwhile already," said Pamela Moon, a assemblage subordinate helping retired with the nightly patrols.

"We privation to support the cause dealers out of the assemblage due to the fact that they person been causing havoc present successful the past fewer weeks, pulling guns connected radical — that happened — going to different people's homes, causing disturbances."

Moon says they're connected the lookout for radical who should not beryllium successful the assemblage and they're besides watching what assemblage members are doing.

"We're taking down reports astir immoderate conveyance moving wrong the community, and anybody partying — that's getting written down," Moon said. 

Moon says she's determined to support warring to support her assemblage safe. She says she precocious mislaid her 21-year-old granddaughter to drugs.

"It's devastating," she said.

Moon says she's heard antithetic reactions to the assemblage lockdown and patrols.

"Some radical are blessed that we're doing this. They stop us, archer america we're doing a bully occupation and that. And past we person others that are complaining to different assemblage members who archer america what they say, like, 'why are they driving astir my location truthful often?'" Moon said.

"We're keeping an oculus connected you due to the fact that you are suspected of selling drugs successful this assemblage and we privation you to cognize we're watching you. We thrust close into their gait and we instrumentality down their licence plates and everything."

'People are being isolated'

Around 30 residents showed up to Tuesday's assemblage meeting. Two RCMP officers from the adjacent Watson Lake, Yukon, detachment besides attended.

Some of the treatment focused connected creating a semipermanent assemblage policing program, and RCMP members besides told the gathering they are moving with enactment agencies successful Yukon and B.C. to supply much resources to tackle the problems of addiction. 

Carla Kristin Boss lives successful Lower Post and said she's mostly blessed with the assemblage action. She cites the "numerous and countless heartaches that our radical person been going done with this crisis."

But Boss is besides disquieted that the efforts could bash much harm than good, by pointing fingers and stigmatizing definite people.

"People are being isolated, and that's wherefore radical are not reaching out," she said.

"That causes radical to perchance overdose, unsocial by themselves, for fearfulness of, you know, being judged. And that's not a bully thing."