Unredacted email from alleged anonymous VPD officer
Email from "confidentialrevpd@proton.me" to Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner was made public by Vancouver Police Board with heavy redactions
Email from "confidentialrevpd@proton.me," who claims to be an anonymous Vancouver Police Department officer, was shared by Vancouver Police Board with incredibly heavy redactions. Below is the full version:
“I write as a VPD officer who is disgusted by the political motivated crack down that has been launched by the VPD. This is entirely motivated by politics. It has nothing to do with serving the community and public safety which are why I became a police officer. It is sad that I can’t raise my concerns inside of the VPD because I’ll only be punished for speaking out. Instead I have to write to you in the hopes that my information will help you fix what the VPD is doing to people who don’t deserve to be picked on so the VPD can get political points from the city.
I get that you need specifics. I also know our department runs based on the media and image. So I’m going to provide two very specific pieces of information to assist you in showing what the VPD and its leaders are all about.
First: management in district two which covers the down town east side sent an email at the start of this project barrage that set an expectation that each team working there would arrest 2-3 people a day on drug charges. Their email that lists their expectations of members: “Ideally, we'd like 2-3 drug arrests and charges a day.” I was always taught I had discretion and I should charge people when it made sense but now it’s clear they don’t value their officer’s discretion and decision making and their setting quotas. I don’t think this is legal or right. I have no doubt you can FOI this email based on these specific words, they are directly copied word for word from their email. Once called on it and publicly exposed I have no doubt they’ll back away from charging anyone just to get statistics which is the way it should be.
Second: the person leading this project is inspector Hiar who is new to the district. This same VPD leader openly lied to get promoted to staff sergeant. It was looked at at the time but then it was covered up and they said he just experienced what happened in his examples he used. His version was different than what actually happened. That’s a fancy way of saying he was lying. As an officer I’ve seen people I work with investigated for deceit when there they didn’t lie and they had no reason to lie. But it is clear that these rules don’t apply to the brass. This should’ve been investigated by the OPCC because I know if it was me it certainly would’ve been. Worse yet lying to get ahead is something I always thought was a criminal offence. But it’s clear to me that the VPD had no interest in the accountability that they say is part of IPAR. I hope you bring this to the OPCC. Let them ask the VPD about this and see what the truth is. They’ll start saying it was informally investigated which is their way of saying it was swept under the carpet because they like him or they didn’t want any bad press about someone lying and getting promoted. He lied to get promoted and got promoted again to be a white shirt inspector after this. It’s all disgusting to those of us that work har and who have the rules applied differently to us.
I hope this helps. The face of the project is a known liar and he is openly calling for quotas of arrests not because it makes sense or helps public safety but because he wants to look good. There are no ethics or fair treatment of those of us doing the work. Instead we’re supposed to meet arbitrary quotas to keep those happy who lied to get to the top. It all makes me sick to be a member of the VPD. But I’m hopeful that once you expose this that they’ll back off on cracking down on the marginalized and they’ll pretend to care about trusting officer’s discretion if only because they get caught in the media looking bad. It’s sad it comes to this but I know the only way to have them back off their crackdown a for this information to be exposed and I know no one inside the VPD will stand up about what is being done so I write to you in the hopes you care and can make change that restores a focus on doing things for the right reason.”
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The Downtown Eastside is finally cleaning up and starting to become a safer place for people to walk through. This disgruntled employee just seems to be upset that he’s being held accountable to do some work. There was a phenomenal press release recently that showed all of the weapons that have been seized from that area. Statistics are clearly showing that the extra police presence has made a difference. And, to slam a senior inspector in a very sheepish way … lol, come on - super butt hurt employee. As a Vancouver resident, I feel much safer in the east side, and I would largely attribute this to the efforts of the VPD.
The Downtown Eastside is finally cleaning up and starting to become a safer place for people to walk through. This disgruntled employee just seems to be upset that he’s being held accountable to do some work. There was a phenomenal press release recently that showed all of the weapons that have been seized from that area. Statistics are clearly showing that the extra police presence has made a difference. And, to slam a senior inspector in a very sheepish way … lol, come on - super butt hurt employee. As a Vancouver resident, I feel much safer in the east side, and I would largely attribute this to the efforts of the VPD.