Q. Is BEHIND THE BLUE LINE an official VPD blog?
A. Yes, BEHIND THE BLUE LINE is an official blog of the Vancouver Police Department. However, the comments, posts and opinions contained within this blog are those of the writer and are not necessarily those of the Vancouver Police Department or the police board.
Q. Are the posts and comments written by an actual VPD officer, or by the VPD’s Media Relations staff?
A. All the posts and comments are written by Cst. Sandra Glendinning.
Q. When does Cst. Glendinning write this blog?
A. Cst. Glendinning writes for the blog on her days off and before/after shift. While working, Cst. Glendinning is far too busy with police work and working with PSD Hondo.
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A. Please visit the recruiting page of the Vancouver Police Department, which can be viewed on the departmental website at www.vpd.ca.
Q. How do I contact Cst. Glendinning if I have a question, comment, concern or suggestion for a blog topic?
A. You can e-mail Cst. Glendinning at sandra@behindtheblueline.ca
Q. Does Cst. Glendinning publish her writing anywhere else?
A. Cst. Glendinning wrote for The Vancouver Sun for nearly three years (2009-2012), with a weekly column covering traffic safety and driving issues (plus the occasional anecdote about working a police dog).
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I saw your link at The Roanoke Cop blog. I’ve added you to our homepage and would love to include you among our content authors. If you’ll give me permission to reprint some of your great blog stories I’d be very grateful. Full attribution to you and links back to you are of course part of it. See my front page for what I’m talking about. The Roanoke Cop is republished there so it should look familiar.
We have a great community of law enforcement and civilians and the entire site is run by cops and for cops. I’m just the front page guy. The perspective of a Canadian cop would be really cool. We have secure law enforcement only areas as well for great professional social networking. I hope you can drop by. Please check out our forums, I know you’d be a great addition to the community.
I’d love to trade links with you. The Police Museum’s blog is at http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/weblog/. Everything looks great!
Chris Mathieson, Executive Director
Vancouver Police Museum
Thank you to Xiphos for introducing me to the online community over at Officer Resource.
To Chris – consider it done. I love the idea of having a birthday party in the morgue!
File Number 09-86820
There was a incident with my step son sebastian. My girlfriend and I just wanted to say what a woderful job Mr Peter Clark (2263) and his partner have done. In our eyes they may have saved Sebastians life or saved him from serious injury. They handled the matter in such a professional and cival way that our words can’t even thank them enough. So we are writing this letter to thank them and the department from the bottom of our hearts for all your help. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS.
Mike Gasparre Stephanie Castellanos &
Sebastian
Mike, Stephanie and Sebastian,
I will send your comments on to PC Clark, his partner and their Sgt. Your words of thanks are very much appreciated – more so than most would realise.
Thank you for taking the time to acknowledge these two officers and the work they do.
Best Regards,
Cst. Sandra Glendinning
HELLO SANDRA: AS I AM A DRIVER WITH MANY YEARS OF HAVING ALL SORTS OF EXPERIENCES , I WOULD SUGGEST THAT A RULE BE SET FOR ANYONE WALKING THE STREETS AT NIGHT MUST WEAR A WHITE GARMENT OR A CAP OR SOMETHING REFLECTIVE TO ENHANCE A DRIVERS ABILITY TO SEE A PEDESTRIAN RATHER THAN A ALL BLACK GARMENT . I AM SURE THAT THIS RULE WOULD SAVE MANY UNWANTED NEAR ACCIDENTS AND LIVES. THIS WOULD HELP ALL OF VANCOUVER MOTORISTS SEE A MORE CLEAR PICTURE OF WALKING PEDESTRIANS. THANKS.
To “ClarkesChacter”: I wholeheartedly agree. With Standard time about to start, and rainy Vancouver nights, pedestrians wearing dark clothing are simply invisible through a smeared and wet windshield. I am amazed at how little thought many put into how visible they are when walking at night.
My solution: I pick up reflective armbands by the dozen at the local dollar store and whenever I see (or barely see) an inappropriately garbed pedestrian, I pull over, give them a pair of reflective armbands and remind them how important it is to be seen. Even if they do not use them, I’m hoping the gesture reminds them of how important it is to think about their visibility to drivers.
I have another note about pedestrians – a question, actually. I got off a bus at Fraser and Broadway early in the afternoon and was tapped on the shoulder by a very little old lady with a walking stick who got off the bus behind me. She asked me if i could help her across Broadway because she was scared to go alone. Because she had been behind me I had not noticed how agonisingly slowly she walked. Well, we inched across the crosswaik and the light was red against us by the time we were only a third of the way across! I was petrified that cars in the far lane on Broadway, whose visibiity was blocked by cars in the centre lane, would not see us. The light went green in our favour again the second time, as we stepped back onto the curb! Luckily there were no angry drivers, but there might have been. This handicapped old woman – 80-something probably- should never have been out by herself, crossing major streets. But my question is… what should I have done? If i had known just HOW slow she would be going, I might have waited to enlist some more help to hold off traffic, but I did not know in advance.
Hello,
My name is Ashley and I am trying to track down a copy of a book written by a retired female New Westminster police officer documenting her time on the force.
Unfortunately I do not have a name of either the book or the officer and was hoping that someone could help point me in the right direction. I do know that she would have been on the force during the 1970′s.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,
Ashley
Hi Ashley – I’m not aware of the book and was not able to find anything on Google. You could try calling the New Westminster PD at 604-525-5411 or checking their website at http://www.newwestpolice.org.