It's been a busy first two months of operation for the newly minted Surrey Outreach Team, an RCMP task force created to address issues of homelessness and drug use in the neighbourhood of Whalley in Surrey, B.C. According to a report to be presented to the city's public safety committee, the police team dealt with 55 overdoses between Jan. 10 and 23 — none of them fatal. The RCMP task force is a major part of the plan. In that two-week period, the team located six people on 135A Street who had been reported missing. The report will be presented to Surrey's public safety committee Monday afternoon.

Source: CBC News January 30, 2017 17:26 UTC