RCMP Staff Sgt. Doug Aird told KTW police gave a special presentation last fall to about 400 Sun Peaks workers undergoing orientation — and there hasn’t been an overdose since, he said. “That was our fear, was having fentanyl overdoses up there,” he said. “It’s about prevention.”
Aird said the presentation included input from plainclothes drug investigators in Kamloops. “To be able to bring in plainclothes drug members who know what’s going on on the street, that’s important,” he said. Aird said police were recently called to Sun Peaks after a suspected drug-dealing staffer was among a group of people evicted from employee residences. He said resort officials provided police a short list of names. “We’ll follow up on that,” he said. “By the time we were called, they’d already been removed from the residence.” Aird said the drugs generally used by Sun Peaks workers tend to be soft. “It would be more marijuana use,” he said. “We don’t see the hard stuff up there like we do in town. “And we’re finding they are not in large quantities. These people don’t make a lot of money, either.”