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Overdose prevention site needs 24 hours surveillance

I am familiar with the many issues facing those who live or work near the overdose prevention site
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Overdose prevention site needs 24 hours surveillance

I read Robert Barron’s news story in the Citizen’s Jan. 11, 2019 edition with great interest. As a former long time resident in Victoria, I am familiar with the many issues facing those who live or work near the overdose prevention site in Duncan. And how is it that I would know so much about the issues? I’ve lived it. Not in Duncan, but in Victoria.

Were the residents and business owners notified in advance of the overdose prevention site being relocated from Canada Avenue to Trunk Road and Ypres Street in Duncan? If I owned a home in that neighbourhood, I’d be back to sleeping with one eye always open. And if I owned a business in the area, I’d be spending a small fortune on increased security.

Question: why do the rights of decent citizens somehow become usurped by the rights of drug addled, mentally ill citizens?

It is my hope that come November 2019 when the lease is up for the overdose prevention site, that it is relocated right next door to the RCMP detachment on Canada Avenue in Duncan. A facility like this needs 24 hour surveillance by the professionals that we pay to serve and protect us.

Lana Muir

Cowichan Bay