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Burnaby breaks ground on new RCMP detachment

It is finally happening; the city broke ground on the new RCMP detachment project it has been planning for years. The new detachment is definitely overdue; Burnaby’s current RCMP detachment was built in 1967. “It’s old; it was built in the 1960s not as an RCMP detachment, but as a courthouse,” James Lota, general manager of lands and facilities for the city, told the Beacon three months ago. “There’s more need now, as the city has grown since the 1960s, and its requirements for policing, so now