Crime; Special Report by Grant Fleming

Vancouver

An East Kootenay woman says police in Vancouver are not doing enough to locate her missing daughter. 27 year old Angela Jardine is one of 22 women who've disappeared from the city's downtown eastside since 1995.

On Wednesday, Vancouver police announced a $100,000 reward to help them solve the disappearances but Jardine's mother says a cash incentive is not the answer.

Deborah Jardine has a blunt opinion of the way Vancouver police are handling her daughter Angela's disappearance. She says she's not impressed with the police department. She says she's not sure if overwork is the problem.

The Sparwood woman says police took more than a month to start looking for her daughter after she was reported missing last December. Angela moved to Vancouver from the East Kootenay 10 years ago and was working as a prostitute at the time of her disappearance.

Jardine says she's tried to help the detectives assigned to Angela's file but they've ignored her suggestions. Now she wonders why a cash reward is being offered. She says it's all well and good, but what's really needed is a special task force entirely devoted to all of these cases.

A spokesperson for Vancouver city police refused to comment on Jardine's complaints about the detectives. As for Jardine's suggestion that more police be assigned to find Angela and the other 21 women, the spokesperson says two detectives are sufficient.

Should anyone from the public have information regarding the homicide or disappearance of a Vancouver street trade worker, please phone Crime Stoppers at 604-662-TIPS (8477) or the Missing Woman Tip line at 1-877-687-3377.