Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner returned from a summer break to join new Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth on Thursday in addressing the public on the city鈥檚 recent .

鈥淲e are doing everything we can鈥� to crack down on criminals, Hepner told reporters. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 care if they are jaywalking, it doesn鈥檛 matter if they are loitering, if there鈥檚 any way we can get them off the streets.鈥�

Hepner says fighting Surrey shootings not a resource problem but rather "deafening silence" from people with info

鈥� Tom Zytaruk (@tomzytaruk)

The Fleetwood and Clayton Heights neighbourhoods saw three shootings in under 12 hours.

The first was Tuesday around noon near the 7000 block of 180 Street. No one was hurt, but bullet holes were found in a vehicle and a garage door. Barely seven hours later, officers to 192 Street and 72 Avenue for another shooting. No one was hurt there either. And not long after that, around 10:30 p.m., more gunfire was reported in the 15900 block of 89 A Avenue. One man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 think anybody should be afraid to go outside their homes,鈥� Hepner said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 maddening to be in a community that anyone would feel unsafe.鈥�

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Farnworth said this requires a 鈥渃oncerted plan,鈥� and that his cabinet will discuss initiatives, but he would not go into specifics because he did not want to 鈥渢ip off鈥� the criminals.

"I'm not going to get into specifics today," Farnworth says on plans to deal with Surrey shootings

鈥� Tom Zytaruk (@tomzytaruk)

Premier John Horgan had campaigned in Surrey before the May election, $500,000 a year for an anti-gang youth program called Wraparound.

Farnworth said Thursday his government will follow through on that, but added nothing else.