Surrey’s mayor wants 150 more police officers temporarily deployed to tackle a rash of extortions and shootings in her city, asking the provincial and federal governments to divert police resources to make it happen.

Brenda Locke said Surrey “cannot and will not endure it any longer,” referring to the 74 reported extortions and 39 extortion-related shots-fired incidents in Surrey this year.

It has been almost two years since police began investigating the extortions, many of which have targeted South Asian-Canadian businesses. In that time, a joint force operation and a provincial task force have been assembled to support local police, contributing to several arrests in recent months, even as the threats and violence have continued.

On Thursday, two men were arrested following an over

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