VICTORIA — Victoria's police chief says undercover operatives didn't have to look far to find evidence of criminality outside a safe consumption site in the city.

A suspected cocaine dealer was selling drugs from a chair set up directly in front of the overdose prevention facility, Chief Del Manak said.

The chief said in an interview on Thursday that he called senior leadership at the Island Health authority to express disappointment over the handling of the suspect, who allegedly sold the drug twice to undercover officers and was arrested.

Manak said he supports an overdose consumption site in the city, but it was "unacceptable" that a service provider from the facility on Pandora Ave. was seen to "do nothing" about the man.

"That's disturbing, and it's extremely disappointing for me

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