• Source: Vancouver Police Department

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) (French: Service de police de Vancouver) is the police force in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Area and is the second largest police force in the province after RCMP "E" Division.
VPD was the first Canadian municipal police force to hire a female officer and the first to start a marine squad.
VPD, along with eleven other BC municipal police forces, seconds officers to the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – British Columbia.
VPD now occupies the former Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) building at 3585 Graveley Street, which houses administrative and specialized investigation units.




History


At the first meeting of Vancouver City Council, Vancouver's first police officer, Chief Constable John Stewart, was appointed on May 10, 1886.
On June 14, 1886, the morning after the Great Fire of 1886, Mayor McLean appointed Jackson Abray, V.W. Haywood, and John McLaren as special constables. With uniforms from Seattle and badges fashioned from American coins, this four man team became Vancouver's first police department based out of the City Hall tent at the foot of Carrall Street. These four were replaced in 1887 by special constables sent by the provincial government in Victoria for not keeping the peace during the anti-Asian unrest of that year. The strength of the force increased from four to fourteen as a result.

By 1904, the department had grown to 31 members and occupied a new police building at 200 Cordova Street. In 1912, Vancouver's first two women were taken on the force as matrons. With the amalgamation of Point Grey and South Vancouver with Vancouver in 1929, the department absorbed the two smaller police forces under the direction of Chief Constable W.J. Bingham, a former district supervisor with the Metropolitan Police in London. By the 1940s the department had grown to 570 members.

In 1912, L.D. Harris and Minnie Miller were hired as the first two policewomen in Canada.
In 1917, Chief Constable McLennan was killed in the line of duty in a shoot-out in Vancouver's East End. Responding to a call by a landlord attempting to evict a tenant, the police were met by gunfire. Along with McLennan, the shooter was killed in the battle, as was a nine-year-old boy in the vicinity at Georgia and Jackson streets, which is now marked by a mosaic memorial. A detective who lost an eye in the shootout, John Cameron, later became the chief constable of the New Westminster Police Department before taking the top job of the Vancouver force, which he occupied from 1933 to the end of 1934.
Another member of the force was killed in the line of duty in 1922. Twenty-three-year-old constable, Robert McBeath, was shot by a man stopped for impaired driving. McBeath had received the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery" at the Battle of Cambrai in France in the First World War. McBeath's killer, Fred Deal, was initially sentenced to death, but won an appeal reducing it to life in prison because he had been beaten while in custody. The marine squad's boat, the R.G. McBeath VC, was commissioned in 1995 and named in honour of McBeath.
Plans for a new police building at 312 Main Street began in 1953. The Oakridge police station opened in 1961.
A police memorial at 325 Main St. is dedicated to the Vancouver Police Department members who died in the First and Second world wars and lists the Vancouver Police Department members killed in the line of duty in Vancouver.
In 1935, under Chief Constable W. W. Foster, the Vancouver Police Department was complemented with hundreds of special constables because of a waterfront strike led by communists, which culminated in the Battle of Ballantyne Pier, a riot that broke out when demonstrators attempted to march to the docks to confront strikebreakers. Also that year, nearly 2,000 unemployed men from the federal relief camps scattered throughout the province flocked to Vancouver to protest camp conditions. After two months of incessant demonstrations, the camp strikers left Vancouver and began the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
The Vancouver Police were at the centre of one of the biggest scandals in the city's history in 1955. Feeling frustrated that blatant police corruption was being ignored by the local media, a reporter for the Vancouver Daily Province switched to a Toronto-based tabloid, Flash. He wrote a sensational article alleging corruption at the highest levels of the police department in Vancouver, specifically, that a pay-off system had been implemented whereby gambling operations that paid the police were left alone and those that did not were harassed. After the Flash article appeared in Vancouver, the allegations could no longer be ignored, and a Royal Commission, the Tupper Commission, was struck to hold a public inquiry. Chief Constable Walter Mulligan fled to the United States, another officer from the upper ranks committed suicide, and still another attempted suicide rather than face the inquiry. Other scandals and public inquiries plagued the force before and since this one, dubbed the "Mulligan Affair", but none were so dramatic. An earlier inquiry into corruption in 1928 was ambiguous in its conclusions as to the extent of the problem. The last major inquiry into policing in Vancouver focused largely on police accountability. Judge Wally Oppal (later provincial attorney general), submitted the results of his report in 1994 in a four volume package entitled Closing the Gap: Policing and the Community.
Leonard Hogue, a constable in the police department, was the perpetrator in the 1965 Coquitlam Massacre.
In 2009, the RCMP "E" Division joined forces with VPD to operate the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET)—Vancouver, operating out of VPD facilities instead of the INSET-BC Surrey operation base.




Organization



The 1,716 employees of the VPD have been headed by Chief Constable Adam Palmer since May 6, 2015, following the retirement of Jim Chu. Three sections or units are assigned to the office of the chief constable:

Chief's executive officer: Inspector Ruben Sorge
Planning, research and audit section: Drazen Manojlovic
Community and public affairs section: Director Simi Heer
Block watch
Community policing centres
Diversity and Aboriginal policing section
Victim services unit
The Vancouver Police Union is a trade union that represents 1,450 front-line police officers, jail guards and special constables of the Vancouver Police Department.




Community policing centres






= Organization

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Community policing centres (CPCs), except the Granville Downtown and Kitsilano Fairview CPCs, are run by registered societies. The Granville Downtown CPC is under the direct control of the District 1 commander whereas Kitsilano Fairview is under the District 4 commander.




= Budget

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Each CPC receives $108,200 annually from the VPD, with the exception of two non-society based CPCs which have a combined budget of $140,000. The budget is delivered in four quarterly payments and they can be used towards staff salaries, CPC programs, costs from electricity, renting office space, etc.




= Operation

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CPCs are run by volunteers on a day-to-day basis with the supervision from paid staffs. Each year, the VPD audits all the CPCs and then reports to the city council on budgeting.
Each CPC is assigned a neighbourhood police officer (NPO) who provides resources and guidance for the operation of the CPC.




= Programs

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Each CPC offers different programs based on budget and neighbourhood needs. For example:

Taking non-emergency/lost and found property reports
Project Griffin
Working in conjunction with the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for the Speed Watch Program
Working in conjunction with the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for the Stolen Auto Recovery Program
Working in conjunction with the VPD for the Block Watch Program
Community patrol (foot and bike)
Bike Roadeo, program for young children in bike safety
Outreach and education programs
Engraving
Community cleanup
Child Find
Citizen's Crime Watch
However, CPCs do not offer any of the following services:

Taking emergency report
Criminal record checks
Law/bylaw enforcement
Legal/policing advice
Victim services
Situations that requires police attendance/assistance




Divisions


The force has three operating divisions:




= Operations

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Led by Deputy Chief Constable Howard Chow

All patrols
Mounted squad
Marine squad
Traffic section
Emergency and operations planning section
Emergency planning unit
Operational planning unit
Vancouver Traffic Authority (special municipal constable with restricted peace officer status)
Emergency response section
Emergency response team
Dog squad




= Investigation

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Led by Deputy Chief Constable Laurence Rankin since 2016. As an Inspector, Laurence Rankin led the Integrated Riot Investigation Team. This is a team of investigators and support personnel who investigated the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot. Deputy Chief Rankin is a provincially accredited Team Commander for major investigations. In 2014, he completed a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in criminal justice at the University of the Fraser Valley. In 2015, he completed the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) Executive Global Studies Program, during which he studied international approaches to cybercrime. In 2019, Deputy Chief Rankin completed the Leadership in Counter Terrorism Program, a joint senior executive leadership program that exposes participants to case studies, literature and discussions on terrorism from international experts, academics, and practitioners. In 2018, Deputy Chief Rankin was invested into the Order of Merit of the Police Forces by the Governor General of Canada.
Investigative Services
Major Crime Section
Organized Crime Section
Special Investigation Section
Investigative Support Services
Forensic Services Section
General Investigation Section
Tactical Support Section
Youth Services Section




= Support services

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Led by Deputy Chief Constable Steve Rai

Communications section
Court and detention services section
Vancouver Jail guard (special municipal constable with peace officer status)
Human resources section
Facilities section
Financial services section
Information management section
Information technology section
Professional standards section
Recruiting and training section




Rank structure



Special municipal constable (traffic authority/jail guard/community safety personnel)




List of chief constables


Adam Palmer 2015–present
Jim Chu 2007–2015
Jamie Graham 2002–2007
Terry Blythe 1999–2002
Bruce Chambers 1997–1999
Raymond J. Canuel 1994–1997
Bob Stewart 1981–1991
Don Winterton 1974–1981
John Fisk 1968–1974
Ralph Booth 1962–1968
George Archer 1956–1962
Alexander G. McNeill 1945 - 1947
Walter Mulligan 1947–1955 – charged with corruption and fled to Los Angeles, returned to Canada in 1963 and died in 1987
John McLaren 1890–?
John Stewart 1886–1890




Controversies






= Battle of Ballantyne Pier

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On 18 June 1935, roughly 1,000 longshoremen and their supporters marched towards the Heatley Street entrance to Ballantyne Pier as a demonstration for more livable wages. They were led by Victoria Cross recipient Mickey O'Rourke and a contingent of World War I veterans and marched behind a Union Jack flag, to great symbolic effect. They soon encountered the Vancouver police, who partook in mass brutality. Many, including bystanders, were injured. In light of the injuries, the Ukrainian Community Centre was used as a makeshift hospital. Members of the women's auxiliary operated the centre, before the Vancouver police threw tear gas into the first-aid centre. The strike, in congruence with other, similar West Coast strikes, led to the right to collective bargaining and the creation of International Longshore and Warehouse Union.




= Bloody Sunday

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Bloody Sunday was a 1938 confrontation between peaceful sit-in strikers and the VPD, along with other forces. After mass unemployment across Canada, many people migrated to Vancouver for job opportunities. When unemployment persisted and workers felt no financial relief, they organized a massive peaceful demonstration, occurring in multiple locations for an entire month. Protesters occupied Hotel Georgia, the Vancouver Art Gallery (then located at 1145 West Georgia Street), and the main post office (now the Sinclair Centre). Later that day, 10,000 supporters went to Oppenheimer Park in condemnation of excessive police force of the Vancouver Police Department.




= Gastown riots

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Also known as "The Battle of Maple Tree Square", Vancouver Police attacked a peaceful protest in the Gastown neighbourhood on August 7, 1971. The protestors opposed the use of coercive undercover police tactics. The Vancouver Police were accused of heavy-handed tactics such as indiscriminate beatings with their batons and charging on horseback at crowds of onlookers and tourists.




Geography


The VPD is divided into four geographic districts:

District 1: Downtown, Granville, West End and Coal Harbour
District 2: Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
Beat Enforcement Team: Downtown Eastside, Chinatown and Gastown
District 3: Collingwood and South Vancouver
District 4: Kerrisdale, Oakridge, Dunbar, West Point Grey, Kitsilano, Arbutus, Shaughnessy, Fairview, Musqueam and Marpole




Fleet


Eurocopter EC120 Colibri: air patrol operations shared with RCMP "E" Division
Ford Crown Victoria interceptors (being phased out)
Lenco BearCat APC: purchase approved
Cambli International Thunder 1 ARV—delivered 2010 for ERT use
Ford Taurus two unmarked black Ford interceptor sedans (the demonstrators that were kept)
Dodge Charger police pursuit (replacement for Ford Crown Victoria)
Ford police interceptor utility unmarked and marked supervisor vehicles
Chevrolet Tahoe unmarked SUVs
Ford Fusion CSP/special investigations
Ford F-150 traffic authority
Ford F-350 ERT
Ford Expedition ERT
Mobile Command Centre Mobile Command Centre for Communications and transportation of command members.




See also


Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – British Columbia
E-Comm, 9-1-1 call and dispatch centre for Southwestern BC
Project Griffin, crime prevention/reduction program launched in 2009
RCMP "E" Division—British Columbia's contract policing for surrounding areas (UBC, Burnaby, Surrey, etc.)
Metro Vancouver Transit Police
Vancouver Police Pipe Band
Bloody Sunday (1938)
Internment of Japanese Canadians
Gastown riots
Missing and murdered Indigenous women




References



"Vancouver Police Department – History"
Joe Swan, A Century of Service: The Vancouver Police 1886–1986. Vancouver: Vancouver Police Historical Society and Centennial Museum, 1986.




External links


Official website
Vancouver Police Museum
Vancouver Police Foundation

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