page_title: Vancouver Police Department
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Vancouver Police Department / Organization
caption_attribution_description: Vancouver police beach patrol at Kits beach
context_page_description: The Vancouver Police Department is the police force for the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Area and is the second largest police force in the province after RCMP "E" Division.
  VPD was the first Canadian municipal police force to hire a female officer and the first to start a marine squad.
  VPD, along with eleven other BC municipal police forces, seconds officers to the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – British Columbia.
  VPD now occupies the former Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games building at 3585 Graveley Street, which houses administrative and specialized investigation units.
context_section_description: The 1,716 employees of the VPD  have been headed by Chief Constable Adam Palmer since May 6, 2015, following the retirement of Jim Chu. Three sections or units are assigned to the office of the chief constable:
  Chief's executive officer: Inspector Ruben Sorge
  Planning, research and audit section:  Drazen Manojlovic
  Community and public affairs section: Director Simi Heer
  Block watch
  Community policing centres
  Diversity and Aboriginal policing section
  Victim services unit
  The Vancouver Police Union is a trade union that represents 1,450 front-line police officers, jail guards and special constables of the Vancouver Police Department.
caption: VPD beach patrol at Kitsilano Beach
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