Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger says an RCMP-led provincial police task force "solely dedicated" to tackling the extortion crisis plaguing South Asian businesses in Surrey and elsewhere in B.C.

Krieger, also the solicitor general, made the announcement Wednesday in Surrey.

"A diverse membership and province-wide mandate to target organized crime-related extortion threats in B.C. sets this task force apart from existing units," she said. "It will build on the ongoing work of existing joint-forces operations bringing in new policing partners under a single command structure expanding its cross-jurisdictional reach."

Surrey has recorded 45 related complaints so far in 2025, but police did not reveal how many there have been province-wide.

Krieger described the move as a "comprehensive

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