Chief Superintendent Wendy Mehat became the Officer in Charge (OIC) for the Surrey Provincial Operations Support Unit, in November 2024. As the OIC, Chief Superintendent Mehat upon her arrival led over 500 RCMP police officers deployed to supporting the Surrey Police Service in the City of Surrey. She is also responsible for facilitating the Surrey police transition from the RCMP to a municipal police force and the monumental task to demobilize the Surrey RCMP detachment over the next few years.
Chief Superintendent Mehat has over 25 years of service with the RCMP and she has spent a combined 18 of those years at Surrey detachment. She began her career in Surrey’s Frontline Policing, followed by postings within Anti-Terrorism, Coquitlam RCMP and Federal Serious and Organized Crime. Most recently, Chief Superintendent Mehat served as the Officer-in-Charge of the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment for four years prior to returning to Surrey.
Chief Superintendent Mehat was recently the President of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police (BCACP), representing all senior police leadership in British Columbia from both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the 13 municipal policing agencies. She now serves in this role as Past President.
In 2018, Chief Superintendent Mehat was awarded the Surrey Board of Trade’s ‘Officer of the Year’ award for her unwavering commitment to public safety in Surrey and for her community collaborations. She has been invited by the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement to share her insights on ‘Adversity and Crisis in Leadership’ to strengthen Women Leadership in Policing for women in South Asian Pacific countries. In 2024, Chief Superintendent Mehat was invested as a Member to the Order of Merit of the Police Forces. Chief Superintendent Mehat grew up in Squamish, B.C. and resides in the Lower Mainland with her husband and two daughters.
