Entries tagged with: vpd
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FOI shows 132 more VPD staff join $100,000 Club
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This image features neither a VPD member nor Canadian money, but you get the point An FOI filed months ago with the Vancouver Police Department by CityCaucus.com has now arrived in our mailbox – coincidentally just before a long...
Posted on July 29, 2010 7:33 PM
Megaphone magazine releases video of police assault
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This security camera video shows VPD members in arrest of Ali Eltah Ishag Not sure what to make of this one. The video supplied by our friends down at Megaphone magazine is potentially incriminating, and no doubt it will...
Posted on July 8, 2010 7:08 AM
Throw a party for blue coats & cops, involve the kids
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Keeping cool – VPD members remain relaxed as thousands pour into downtownWidely celebrated for their part in a successful, high energy 2010 Games, the Olympic volunteers (aka the Blue Coats, or Smurfs), police and security forces deserve to be feted...
Posted on March 3, 2010 2:30 PM
Spotlight-loving Penny Ballem causing grief
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"Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" – Vancouver's City Manager even micro-manages the message Ever since Gregor Robertson's hand-picked City Manager showed up for an interview on CBC Radio's Early Edition just days after she replaced Judy Rogers,...
Posted on January 19, 2010 9:13 AM
The other Vancouver demonstrated how it's done
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Unionized firefighters in Vancouver, Washington left money on the table as they decided to give up their pay raise in recognition of hard times In a couple of days, new pay rates for unionized and management staff at Vancouver...
Posted on December 29, 2009 11:52 AM
Edmonton and Coquitlam finalize budgets and raise taxes by 5%
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Edmonton chose not to put high profile items on the chopping block in their 2010 Budget While Vancouverites are being told by their Vision elected officials that 2% is the maximum tax hike they will permit this year (0%...
Posted on December 11, 2009 12:04 PM
Olympic related policing costs an unknown budget risk for Vancouver
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GlobalTV's Ted Chernecki wonders what the real cost of 2010 Games security will be There will likely be a lot of anxiety over at Vancouver City Hall in the coming weeks as council grapples with which programs they must cut...
Posted on November 26, 2009 1:15 PM
Klassen. 24 Hours. Thursday.
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This week it's all about Vancouver's "big play" over the 2010 budget Be sure to pick up a copy of 24 Hours Vancouver (we know that you all do anyway). This week Mike takes a look at Vancouver City...
Posted on November 19, 2009 6:05 AM
City charges us $1410 to access budget documents
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Skip that trip to Mexico... A whopping bill for a Vancouver FOI request Just as CityCaucus.com was starting to see increased revenues as we pull out of this dreadful recession, we received another invoice from the City of Vancouver....
Posted on November 15, 2009 4:45 PM
VPD facility change could be welcome change to DTES
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Is there an opportunity to redevelop the old police station into DTES Renewal Centre One? With news coming out of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) that they are lobbying to move to VANOC’s head office once they vacate in...
Posted on October 27, 2009 1:36 PM
Are the VPD negotiating a new police facility through the media?
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City Council to the VPD – Call me, babe A strange story caught the attention of the media monitoring crew on floor 21 of CityCaucus Tower this morning. Vancouver Deputy Police Chief Bob Rolls was saying how nice it...
Posted on October 22, 2009 10:12 AM
Police response times are an unreliable measurement
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Most criminals can be in and out of your house before you know it A few weeks ago, the Vancouver Police Department’s communications and marketing department got revved up and advised the media that things were getting better. Well,...
Posted on September 27, 2009 7:02 PM
Want to save money on cops? Build more front porches
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It's a fact: front porches make neighbourhood safe and build communitiesThe crime stats for 2008 are now in, and guess what, crime is down again (6%) for perhaps the 10th year in a row. Do you believe it? Probably not....
Posted on August 28, 2009 2:59 PM
Getting HEATed
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Thanks to Mayor Robertson's new HEAT shelter, the corner of Beach and Howe has become the place to par-tay! CKNW radio is reporting that over 300 angry residents packed a meeting hall in downtown Vancouver this evening to voice...
Posted on June 11, 2009 8:07 PM
Overtime salaries issue gets headlines
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The front page of today's Province newspaper covers a CityCaucus.com story Our recent posting regarding an FOI we released relating to the remuneration paid to Vancouver Police Department (VPD) employees in 2008 has been getting some attention from the...
Posted on May 25, 2009 10:10 AM
Non-executive VPD staff raking in almost quarter of a million in salary
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Inspector Henrik Cluft passes out after working his 107th hour of overtime this month. On the plus side, he earned a gross salary of $239,000 in 2008. Yesterday CityCaucus.com revealed through one of our FOIs that over 345 employees...
Posted on May 22, 2009 2:23 PM
FOI reveals over 345 Vancouver police staff now in $100K+ club
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Vancouver police staff salaries for 2008 put under the microscope thanks to CityCaucus.com freedom of information request An FOI filed by CityCaucus.com a while back has now come in and it reveals that just over 345 employees of the...
Posted on May 21, 2009 6:00 PM
Confidential documents were regularly left unattended at city hall
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Will we ever find out who the shadowy figure was that stole confidential documents from Vancouver City Hall? Just hours before the polls closed on yesterday's BC provincial election, the Vancouver Police Department chose to hold a news conference...
Posted on May 13, 2009 8:12 PM
Garr reveals VPD PR department costs taxpayers $1.2 million
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Constable Tim Fanning was once the public face of the Vancouver Police Department's $1.2 million dollar public relations branchVancouver civic affairs columnist Allen Garr has an excellent column in today's Vancouver Courier in which he reveals the Vancouver Police Department...
Posted on May 13, 2009 3:33 PM
Police release details of Olympic-gate investigation on election day
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Plain clothes officers prepare hole in which they hope to bury their Olympic-gate investigation on election dayThe Vancouver Police Department chose BC election day to release their final report into the investigation regarding who leaked confidential information related to the...
Posted on May 12, 2009 5:29 PM
Robertson asks political staff to get Iggy his "share of gang war press"
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Mayor Robertson attends a photo op with the Chief to get his "share of the gang war press"A few months ago, CityCaucus.com asked for copies of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson's email during a period in which he went away for...
Posted on May 11, 2009 6:03 AM
Concerns raised about political interference in police investigation
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Vancouver's Mayor goes public with comments about a VPD investigation Is the Chair of Vancouver's Police Board challenging his Chief of Police to fast track an internal investigation of an alleged assault of a delivery driver by three off-duty police...
Posted on January 26, 2009 1:15 PM
Mayor should stay on police board - it's his duty
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A story broke on CKNW today about Mayor Robertson considering whether he should remain on the Vancouver Police Board (VPB). In Vancouver, the Mayor is automatically appointed as the Chair, while the other Board members are all patronage appointments. There...
Posted on December 11, 2008 8:22 PM
