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West Vancouver police net few complaints
WEST Vancouver Police Department officers faced punishment for misconduct six times in 2012, according to the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner
On soup, regime puts democracy to shame
WITHOUT hard figures, I suspect my readership among sharks (the animal variety) is sharply limited.
OPINION: The police chief's uncomfortable sandwich
IS the curse of 13th and Marine Drive striking again?
Lepine positive about WVPD efforts on reserve
CRIME rates on the Capilano reserve are "headed in the right direction," according to Chief Constable Peter Lepine of the West Vancouver police.
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Property crimes drop in W. Van
PROPERTY crime plummeted while violent crime increased in West Vancouver last year, according to the West Vancouver Police Department's year-end report released Monday.
Ottawa should pay its crime-fighting costs
THE City of North Vancouver has a clear message for Ottawa where it comes to rising police costs: If you're going to make the problem worse, at least pay for it.
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B.C. cop investigator in place
BRITISH Columbia's provincial government has called in a veteran American prosecutor to set up and lead a civilian police oversight commission, to be known as the Independent Investigations Office, or IIO.
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90-day suspensions spark questions
NORTH Shore drivers who've been handed a 90day licence suspension under B.C.'s new drunk driving laws are asking questions after parts of those laws were recently struck down in court as breaching fundamental charter rights.
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Wrong-way highway driver blows .22
WEST Vancouver police say they're continuing to crack down on drunk drivers despite a court decision striking down some of B.C.'s drunk driving laws.
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Judge nixes part of B.C.'s drunk driving laws
BRITISH Columbia's strict drinking and driving laws took a hit Wednesday when the B.C. Supreme Court decreed part of the legislation unconstitutional.
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West Van police release details of Prince George child tasering
THE Prince George Mounties who tasered an 11-year-old boy in April mistook a pen he was holding for a knife, according to a report by the West Vancouver Police Department.
New West Vancouver firehall decision on hold
WEST Vancouver's plan for a new, combined police and fire station has been trimmed to a $40million price point, but many of the big decisions will be left to a new council.
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West Vancouver police react to report critics
THE West Vancouver police are defending their decision to release extremely little information about their investigation into the tasering of an 11-year-old boy in Prince George.
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No charges for tasering 11-year-old
THE Prince George Mounties who tasered an 11year-old boy last spring acted within the bounds of the law, according to the West Vancouver police who investigated the incident.
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Police chief calls West Vancouver student's actions heroic
A West Vancouver secondary school graduate is being hailed as a hero by police for intervening in a stabbing at the school last October, stopping the attack and tending to the victim's life-threatening wounds.
Property crimes down in West Vancouver
PROPERTY crimes in West Vancouver continued a decline in the first half of 2011, while the number of drug busts jumped, according to numbers presented to council July 4 alongside the police department's new strategic plan.
Random breath-testing is fine with me
"The reality of impaired driving came to Denise Dubyk's family the same way it comes to so many others -- wWith a knock on the door and a police officer standing on the doorstep."
WVPD updates tasering inquiry
The investigation into the police tasering of an 11-year-old boy in Prince George last month has entered a new phase, according to West Vancouver police, who are leading the probe.
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