Daylu Dena Council enacting proactive lockdown to keep drug dealers out of Lower Post, B.C.

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· Posted: May 16, 2025 5:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 17 minutes ago

Daylu Dena Council successful Lower Post, B.C., is hoping a caller lockdown protocol volition assistance support the assemblage harmless from a emergence successful unit and cause activity.  

As of Friday, the tiny bluish B.C. community is hiring roaming officers to patrol from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. to beryllium connected the lookout for anyone who neither lives oregon works there.

The lockdown volition beryllium successful spot until further notice, the assembly said successful a quality merchandise this week.

The quality release indicates that lone residents of Lower Post are permitted successful the assemblage and residents who big known cause dealers oregon convulsive individuals hazard losing their tenancy. Employees of Daylu Dena Council, Daylu Fuels, Iyon Kechika Contracting and Dena Kayeh Institute are besides allowed successful for enactment purposes.

Spouses and household members of residents who bash not unrecorded successful Lower Post volition request assembly support to enter.

Harlan Schilling, lawman main of the Daylu Dena Council, said the determination is successful effect to a emergence successful cause enactment crossed the country.  

"With these things comes unit and information concerns," helium said. 

"Our wellness and societal squad is conscionable trying to beryllium proactive and springiness the assemblage enactment members reassurance that, you know, information is fig 1 for our community."

Lower Post, B.C, is astir 24 kilometres southbound of Watson Lake, Yukon, and is policed by the Watson Lake RCMP detachment. Schilling said they're moving with the RCMP to study suspicious enactment oregon chartless vehicles — a payment of surviving successful a assemblage tiny capable for residents to cognize each other, helium said. 

Schilling said they're not responding to a circumstantial contiguous threat, conscionable being proactive astir assemblage safety. 

"It's much conscionable showing these unwelcome individuals that, you know, it takes an progressive assemblage to beryllium steadfast and that we're each lasting agreed successful this beforehand to say, you know, it volition not hap present successful Lower Post."

He said he's not definite however agelong the lockdown volition last, but main and assembly is looking for provincial, territorial and national backing sources to effort and support the programme going.  

"I anticipation this brings a small spot of inspiration to different communities crossed the North. It takes each of america to marque a harmless home."

The quality merchandise indicates determination is simply a assemblage gathering acceptable for Tuesday to update members.