Public Services
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Keeping the community, its citizens and visitors safe, is an important priority in Maple Ridge. Together, agencies like the police, fire, ambulance, search and rescue and all other emergency services work hard to ensure that this goal is met. Maple Ridge has an outstanding emergency response system that includes an Emergency Operations Centre and Emergency Social Services that can be activated in the event of a serious incident such as flood, fire or earthquake.
Major public service providers include School District No. 42, Ridge Meadows Hospital, the District of Maple Ridge, and Fraser Regional Corrections.
Public services are often perceived as "Quality of Life" factors supporting infrastructure development and governs the way in which economic development in the private sector is patterned.
Fire Department
The primary mission of the Maple Ridge Fire Department is the protection and preservation of life, property and the environment for the citizens of Maple Ridge. This group of dedicated paid-on-call and full-time firefighters, full-time officers, and administrative support staff responds to all Fire Department emergency calls 24 hours a day.
As residents of Maple Ridge, the officers and firefighters strive to create a safe community for their families and neighbours.
topMunicipal Emergency Services
The Emergency Program Act and the Municipal Act provide for an emergency plan to be in place in the event of a major disaster or emergency.
This plan is referred to as the Municipal Emergency Program. The Act outlines the administration, powers, duties, and responsibilities pertaining to the Program.
The Municipal Emergency Program is the collective title for the organization, plans and procedures established within the municipalities of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows for combating major emergencies and disasters.
topPublic Health/Prevention Services
Focuses on the well-being of the entire population and our communities through the promotion and protection of health and prevention of disease (including immunization).
Maple Ridge is served by the Fraser Health Unit, a regional health service administered by the BC Ministry of Health. The Health Unit is located at 11940 Haney Place, Maple Ridge.
topRidge Meadows Hospital & Health Care Centre
Ridge Meadows Hospital and Health Care Centre, located at 11666 Laity Street, provides acute and long term care as well as an array of other in and out patient programs and services and a twenty-four hour ambulance service. For direct information, please call 604-466-7918.
topRidge Meadows RCMP
Law enforcement in Maple Ridge is provided by the "Ridge Meadows Detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police". In partnership with this community, the principle focus is on the prevention and detection of crime, the prosecution of criminals, community involved problem solving, as well as response to criminal activity and traffic safety. They are dedicated to the principle of community policing and working with the public to provide long term solutions to identified problems.
topRidge Meadows Search & Rescue
Ridge Meadows Search & Rescue is a volunteer society, organized 25 years ago under the Provincial Emergency Program.
The Ridge Meadows Search & Rescue Team have served the community since 1969 by helping find people who have gotten lost while exploring the great outdoors. The permanent training facility is located on the Albion Fairgrounds at 105 Avenue in Maple Ridge. It consists of approximately 30 men and women trained to respond to emergency situations such as missing persons, as well as to provide services in the event of a natural disaster. The call-out originates from the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment or B.C. Ambulance via a pager system. For further details, call 604-463-4891.
topFraser Regional Correctional Centre
The Fraser Regional Correctional Centre (FRCC) is the main sentenced facility serving the Lower Mainland. The centre opened in 1990 and comprises living units that each house 18 to 28 inmates. Maximum capacity is 422 men. There is a full slate of inmate health and counselling programs, as well as opportunities for work skill development, with cleaning, kitchen, laundry, recycling, metal fabrication, carpentry, gardening, packaging, fishery, and forestry programs.
topMental Health and Addiction Services
Fraser Health provides a continuum of services for individuals and their families living with mental health and addiction issues including: Mental health, addiction services, home and community care services, continuing care division, and planned parenthood. Further information can be obtained by contacting 604-466-7200.
topSocial Services
Ministry of Social Services provides social assistance and support to help abused women and children, families in need of support or guidance, to legal and mental health assistance.
topOther Services
Other services available to residents of Maple Ridge are the local library (a branch of the Fraser Valley Regional Library system), a garbage disposal transfer station, a recycling depot, compost education garden, and the Fraser Information Society that researches and makes available environmental material to assist in consumer awareness and practice.
Through its many services and programs, as well as an often, unique approach to dealing with community needs, Maple Ridge provides a network of assistance and care to those who reside here.
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