Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / File photo of the Chilliwack Crime Prevention Services/Community Policing Services building on Wellington Avenue from July 2025. 

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Downtown office closed for good

Community policing office in downtown Chilliwack unlikely to return anytime soon

Nov 27, 2025 | 7:10 AM

CHILLIWACK — There are no immediate plans to reopen a community policing office in downtown Chilliwack after a fire earlier this year destroyed one business and heavily damaged other nearby buildings.

Chilliwack first responders were called to a fire in the early morning hours of July 16, 2025 at 45873 Wellington Ave. It raced through a number of commercial units in a downtown block.

In the aftermath of the fire, police said they didn’t have a date for the reopening of the Chilliwack Crime Prevention Services.

Now, it appears Chilliwack Community Policing Services won’t reopen in downtown Chilliwack anytime soon. At the end of October, the building was still boarded up.

Debris and other seared building materials were hauled away from the rear of the building as well as from nearby 45873 Wellington Avenue in the weeks and months after the fire.

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Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Alexandra Greenley says the building housing Community Policing Services was privately owned. The City of Chilliwack rented it and the RCMP acted as the tenants.

“All of the programs and people that were housed in that location have been moved to our main building [on Airport Road] for now. We do look forward to having a presence in the downtown core again, but for now we don’t know when that may be,” Sgt. Greenley told Fraser Valley Today.

Bear in mind, all community policing programs are still operational, including Block Watch, Speed Watch, Business Watch, City Watch, Victim Services, Crime Prevention Through Environmnental Design, and property security checks. The office can be reached via email at Chilliwack_CrimePrevention@RCMP-GRC.gc.ca or in person at the main RCMP detachment at 45924 Airport Road.