The crowds came and enjoyed Canada Day celebrations in the Tri-Cities and Golden Spike Days in Port Moody but didn’t cause many headaches for police.
In fact, both the Port Moody Police Department and the Coquitlam RCMP report very few incidents of note during festivities at Coquitlam's Town Centre Park, PoCo's Castle Park and PoMo's Rocky Point Park, outside of a few cases of public alcohol consumption or public intoxication.
The relatively calm long weekend earned praise from PMPD Chief Const. Dave Fluegel, who said: “Being new to Port Moody and this being my first Golden Spike festival, I was thoroughly impressed with the community spirit.”
In all, an estimated 41,000 visitors are recorded as attending Golden Spike over four days.
PoMo police had 15 uniformed and plain clothes police office on site, aided by the CP Railway Police and a Coquitlam RCMP vessel was deployed in Burrard Inlet.
Coquitlam RCMP spokesman Cpl. Mike McLaughlin also said there were no incidents of note over the Canada Day long weekend at Coquitlam and PoCo events.
