For the first time since being named as the Kelowna RCMP's Superintendent, Brent Mundle delivered the force's annual report to council on Monday.
During the report, he talked about the RCMP's Crime Reduction Strategy, which included updates on last year's crime rates and policing intiatives.
As for local crime, the highest increases reported were bicycle thefts, which went up by 43 percent, and vehicle break-ins, which rose 26 percent.
The biggest drop was in "crimes against persons," which dropped 13 percent last year compared to 2015, and was the lowest number in five years.
As for the progress updates, one came on the new Police and Crisis Team, aka the PAC Team, which features an officer teaming up with a psychiatric nurse, to handle calls relating to mental health.
Mundle says it's been happening for about seven weeks, and has allowed the RCMP to become more efficient.
"We're not in a situation, at least when the PAC Team is working, where we have officers waiting at the hospital, because they've (the team) made a preliminary assessment, and then the person is released," he said.
"So what that has done is it's resulted in a number of referrals to other agencies and such, within the community, for a vast number of people."
He says in total, the team has handled about 22.5 percent of the mental health calls that have been made.
Last year, RCMP responded to about 57,000 calls in total, an annual increase of 8.3 percent.
Mundle also discussed the fentanyl drug crisis, describing it as still a big factor for local police.
He says officers are now trained on how to treat overdose victims.
"Our front line officers have all been trained and are carrying naloxone, so that they can effectively deal with someone that they come across that's overdosed," he said.
"My stats, as of April, is we had 13 deployments of naloxone by our members within the Kelowna detachment area, so that's proved to be quite valuable."
Mundle says the RCMP has been meeting regularly with Interior Health, who's still waiting for federal approvals to open a supervised injection site in Kelowna.
Currently, the mobile overdose prevention units are operating downtown and in Rutland.
Finally, Mundle spoke about the big move-in to the new headquarters at Richter and Clement, which is only a few weeks away.
"We'll be functional and operating as a police detachment on June 15. (Monday) was the first day where we started moving people, so a number of people were packing up and moving out," he said.
"Our general duty patrol function will be the last group of individuals remaining at the detachment, and they'll be making that transition just around around June 15th."
He says an official opening ceremony will happen on June 27.
Currently, the detachment has a vacancy rate of about 19.1 percent, which Mundle says is a number that's actually improved over the last few months.