Gangs, police evolve since Surrey Six Massacre
Posted October 20, 2012 9:58 am.
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SURREY (NEWS1130) – It’s now been five years since six people — including innocent victims Chris Mohan, 22, and Ed Schellenberg, 55 — were gunned down in a high-rise apartment in Surrey.
Since the Surrey Six Massacre, gangs have evolved, but police say they’ve evolved right along with them.
“Some of those individuals and gang members who were rival enemies back in 2006 and 2007, and even up to 2009, they’re now working together,” notes Lindsey Houghton with the Combined Special Forces Enforcement Unit, adding it’s not like it was when the Red Scorpions, United Nations and other gangs were warring.
“Since then, there has been shifting gang alliances and new power blocks as we call them forming amongst the gangsters and those who were enemies years ago are now working together and that’s a challenge of us,” he adds.
And Houghton says some of those gangsters are now in other parts of the country, but they’re still pulling strings here. To fight that, police are getting a new provincial intelligence centre next spring.
“To figure out in real time what’s going on and who needs to know and get that information out to front-line police officers in every community as quickly as they can.”
