service rank article_title name department currentstatus
canada superintendent derek cooke
 derek cooke royal canadian mounted police head of the detachment in langley , british columbia
derek cooke

derek cooke is a royal canadian mounted police -lrb- rcmp -rrb- officer .
in the winter of 2014 cook applied and was accepted for a position as the lone rcmp representative on operation proteus , a canadian armed forces mission that is working with the united states security coordinator -lrb- ussc -rrb- in jerusalem .
he is the former superintendent in langley , british columbia and was the head of the rcmp detachment in the township .
in 2007 , he was an inspector in vancouver .
in january 2011 , after becoming a superintendent in langley , cooke called rick green , who was langley 's mayor at the time , to inform him that there was investigation into green 's conduct being undertaken by commercial crime ; green later denied having received the phone call from cooke .
that september , cooke drove an unmarked car during a patrol leading up to the annual cruise-in auto show before which it is tradition to perform multiple burnouts in public .
the british columbia civil liberties association -lrb- bccla -rrb- filed a complaint against cooke that november regarding his involvement in an investigation into the death of alvin wright , who had been shot to death by an rcmp officer the year before .
cooke had issued a press release a day after vancouver police department had completed a review of the event , but the rcmp took the press release down from their website within a few hours and the bccla claimed that cooke was wrong to have released information about the event to the public .
the following month , he announced that charges of sexual interference and sexual assault had been laid against a 57-year-old female teacher in school district 35 langley .
in may 2013 , he said that he was very concerned about new laws in langley restricting cannabis cultivation to commercial areas ; he said that , because the cultivation of medical cannabis in residential areas was legal before the passing of the laws , there were instantaneously 26,000 illegal cannabis-growing operations in the township .
cooke believes that the rcmp should not perform the function of road traffic control to cater to events in support of for-profit corporations unless the municipal government has coordinated or is in support of the event .
