In and Around Vancouver The VPD’s Homicide Squad was kept busy with two ongoing homicide investigations.  This first suspicious death took place in the Downtown Eastside on January 8th, and the second took place in an apartment building in the 900 Richards St on January 11th.  Please see the VPD’s Media Daily Summaries page dated 2009-01-12 for more details.  If [...]

I try to touch on a specialty squad each Thursday, and while the following section is a team within the VPD, it is more a peer support group than an operational squad.  Also, this is in direct response to comments regarding my last post, ‘Reptilian Brain Stem’, where I recount an assault on my partner.  [...]

In my last post, I stressed the importance of always being aware of your surroundings.  While citizens benefit from paying attention to what’s going on around them as they go about their daily business, police officers also benefit from having an alert mind.   Being aware, and listening to your gut when something seems a bit [...]

In 1984, two researchers, Betty Grayson and Morris I. Stein, conducted a study to uncover how the human predator selects his next victim.  Grayson and Stein secretly videotaped a number of pedestrians in New York, and then showed the video to convicted felons.  The men viewing the video had been convicted of violent offences – [...]

In the summer of 1995, the Justice Institute of BC moved from the Point Grey area of Vancouver to its current location in New Westminster.  When I started with the Police Academy in the fall of that year, I joined twenty-six other recruits from across BC in the first class to conduct its entire training in the new [...]