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Three Years

Published on December 22, 2011 By Sandra

November 28, 2008 was the launch date for this blog and there is value in the saying of “how things change, how much stays the same” as I’ve similar feelings from when the blog was launched and on its one year anniversary in 2009. I’ll not be the one to tell you being a police officer [...]

Calendar Winners!

Published on November 17, 2011 By Sandra

Congratulations to the following two readers, who were selected using random.org: #44 – Eunice, comment left November 9, 2011 at 3:24 pm #61 – Jo Ewing, comment left November 12, 2011 at 12:28 pm. Eunice and Jo, please send me an email at sandra@behindtheblueline.ca to verify your identity and to provide a mailing address so [...]

Missing & Murdered Women in the DTES

Published on October 11, 2011 By Sandra

The Missing Women Commission of Enquiry commenced today, in downtown Vancouver. For those of you not familiar with the case, Robert Pickton was convicted in 2007 for the murders of six women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (map).  He was also charged in the murders of twenty more women, all of them from the Downtown Eastside [...]

History Lesson

Published on August 4, 2011 By Sandra

I’m turning into a bit of an historical enthusiast. Visits to the Vancouver Police Museum and the Vancouver Archives (my new favourite place), scouring boxes of old photos excavated during our department’s recent move to a new building, the salvage of wooden signs and an old window frame from the garage-turned-kennel that housed the dog [...]

Citizen’s Crime Watch

Published on May 23, 2011 By Sandra

While getting my post secondary education and preparing for my chosen career path, I spent a couple of years volunteering with the VPD’s Citizen’s Crime Watch.  I was a wet-behind-the-ears college student who thought she was fairly savvy on the ways of the world (hey, growing up in East Van had to account for something!) only [...]