Vancouver Police Department
| Vancouver Police Department | |
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| Common name | Vancouver Police |
| Abbreviation | VPD |
Heraldic badge of the VPD
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Shoulder Flash of the Vancouver Police
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| Motto | Beyond the Call |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | May 10, 1886 |
| Employees | 1716 |
| Volunteers | Depending on CPC |
| Annual budget | $219,148,000 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City of Vancouver in the province of British Columbia, Canada |
| Size | 114.97 square kilometres (44.39 sq mi) |
| Population | 603,500 |
| Governing body | Vancouver Police Board |
| Constituting instrument | BC Police Act |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 2120 Cambie Street/3585 Graveley Street |
| Police Constables | 1327 |
| Civilians | 389 |
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| Agency executive | Adam Palmer, Chief Constable |
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| Facilities | |
| Commands | 4 Divisions |
| Police cars | 430 |
| Police boats | 2 |
| Helicopters | 1 |
| Horses | 7 |
| Dogs | 18 German Shepherds |
| Website | |
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| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is the police force for the City of Vancouver in 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.
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.
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