During the week of March 18th, 2013 to March 24th, 2013 the Oak Bay Police Department received 69 calls for service.

On March 18th at approx. 9:40pm police attended to the area of Elgin Road and Milton St. to a complaint of a male causing a disturbance.  Police discovered a 27 yr old Victoria resident in medical distress and suffering from an overdose of methadone.  BC ambulance was summonsed and the male was transported to hospital for treatment.

On March 19th at 5:25pm police attended to a two vehicle traffic accident at the intersection of Foul Bay Road and Goldsmith Street.  A 2008 Audi driven by a 62 yr old Oak Bay male was proceeding west on Goldsmith Street and in the process of turning left with a green traffic light onto Foul Bay Road.  A 2005 Toyota being driven by a 58 yr old Oak Bay female was north bound on Foul Bay Road and failed to stop for a red traffic light.  The Toyota struck the Audi causing considerable damage but no injuries.  The female driver of the Toyota was issued a violation ticket for disobeying the red traffic light.

On March 20th at 12:25pm police investigated a complaint of hit and run that occurred in the 2500 block of Bowker Avenue.  A 1986 Cadillac being operated by an elderly female from Oak Bay was proceeding west on Bowker Ave when it side swiped a parked and unoccupied 2009 Mazda.  The Cadillac continued on its way without stopping.  A witness in another car that was travelling behind the Cadillac followed it to the Monterey Centre and notified police.  The driver was observed checking the side of her car that side swiped the parked vehicle.  She was identified and was subsequently issued a violation ticket for failing to stop after a collision with an unattended vehicle.

On March 21 at 4:30pm police received a call from Victoria Police advising that a BC Transit bus heading east on Fort Street towards Oak Bay, had a female passenger on board who might possibly have a gun in her possession.  The bus entered Oak Bay and stopped on Cadboro Bay Road.  Oak Bay and Victoria officers contained the bus and discovered a 30 yr old female resident of Oak Bay sitting near the front of the bus appearing bewildered at the presence of police.  She was taken into custody and when asked if she had a gun in her possession, stated she had her son’s toy gun in her backpack.  Police located the toy gun which was a replica of an Uzi-style weapon.   Interestingly, police discovered that this female was subject to a court order of which one of her conditions was not to possess any firearms and imitations thereof.  She was subsequently charged for breaching her court order.

On March 21 at 10:30pm police observed a 2004 BMW travelling north on Beach Drive near Windsor Road.  The vehicle was observed to be speeding and to cross over the center line of the road.  The vehicle was stopped near Cranmore Rd.  The driver was a 41 yr old Saanich residence and he had the odour of liquor on his breath.  The driver failed a roadside screening test and as per legislation was offered a second test on a different instrument.  This second test also registered a Fail reading.  The driver was issued an Immediate 90 day Roadside Prohibition and his motor vehicle was seized for 30 days.

On March 22nd police attended to a residence in the 1400 block of Beach Drive.  A resident of Oak Bay turned over a knife that she had found in her son’s room some six months earlier.  The knife was a homemade push style dagger.  Neither the mother nor the son realized that this style of knife was a prohibited weapon.  Police are not considering charges in this case but do wish to advise the public that a number of styles of knives are prohibited and accordingly it is illegal to possess them.  These include:

• A belt containing a blade capable of being withdrawn from the belt, with the buckle of the belt forming a handle for the blade, and any similar device;
• Any knife commonly known as a “push-dagger” that is designed in such a fashion that the handle is placed perpendicular to the main cutting edge of the blade and any other similar device other than the aboriginal “ulu” knife;
• Any device having a length of less than 30 cm and resembling an innocuous object but designed to conceal a knife or blade, including the device commonly known as the “knife-comb”, being a comb with the handle of the comb forming a handle for the knife, and any similar device; and
• A knife that has a blade that opens automatically by gravity or centrifugal force or by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to the handle of the knife.