Bike Patrol
Throughout the week we patrol the Kerrisdale community on bikes. Our patrol members wear bright yellow jackets or shirts and can easily be recognized throughout the neighbourhoods. While patrolling we search for and locate stolen vehicles, report suspicious activity or individuals to the police department, and speak with members of the community and businesses to answer questions about crime and safety. All volunteers are provided with the necessary bicycle training by our instructors. We also provide helmets, bikes, safety vests, first aid kits, and uniforms.
Child Find
The Child Find program was started to assist the police agencies in tracking missing children. We take your children's fingerprints and record his/her physical characteristics in a booklet that you keep. In the unlikely event that your child goes missing, this booklet will assist police in efficiently tracking down your missing child. Please stop by our office for more information.
Speed Watch
This program is run in conjunction with ICBC. Our volunteer members setup speed radars at "hot spots" throughout the community. These "hot spots" are areas where residents and concerned citizens have reported speeding vehicles in their neighbourhoods. We setup the radar and display vehicle speeds to the motorists. We record each vehicle's speed and forward these numbers to ICBC and the police department to be analyzed. Police Officers often join us and pull over vehicles that continue to speed after being clocked on our radar.
Foot Patrol
Each day, our volunteer members and lace up their shoes and walk throughout the neighbourhoods. Our foot patrol members wear bright yellow jackets or shirts and can easily be recognized throughout the neighbourhoods. The foot patrol members inspect parked vehicles for theft risk and leave information pamphlets on the vehicles, report suspicious activity or individuals to the police department, search for and locate stolen vehicles, and speak with members of the community and businesses to answer questions about crime and safety.
Operation Wipe Out
We have partnered with the city of Vancouver to help combat graffiti in our neighbourhood. If you notice graffiti on your residential or commercial property, you can report it into our office and with the written consent of the property owner; our volunteers will come out to paint over the graffiti affected area! If you prefer the do-it-yourself approach, the City of Vancouver has a program that offers free paint kits that include two gallons of paint, a tray, roller and gloves up to twice per calendar year for graffiti removal.
Pooch Patrol
Do you have a dog? If you do join us in a fun program. Be the eyes and ears of the Vancouver Police Department while you are out walking your dog. No dog is exempt from duty.
All it takes is to fill out an application, with the name and kind of dog that you have together with information about yourself. We need to have a criminal check run on you. We wouldn't want that dog to be stolen. You will be trained by our office or others in the City of Vancouver on what to look for and how to report. Your dog will be given a glow in the dark dog tag donated by I.C.B.C. This program is sponsored by I.C.B.C. who feel that all of you are important in watching out for stolen autos and theft from auto.
If you have any questions about this fun free program please contact us.
This is another program initiated by the Collingwood Community Policing Centre. It was started by a volunteer from their office. She was out walking her dog and spotted someone stealing a car. By the time the police arrived the car was gone, but it was found two days later by someone else walking their dog.
Have fun and be an important witness Sign up for Pooches on Patrol.
Bait Locker
The Bait Locker program was first started by two volunteers at the Port Coquitlam RCMP Community Policing Station, Brianne Thauvette and Ryan Keefe. While working at their summer jobs as lifeguards, they noticed a higher than average rate of locker break-ins. With the support of their Community Policing Centre an idea was hatched to place alarms in lockers as a way to deter thieves.
The program requires placing large poster sized signage at key visible locations throughout the community centre, informing the public on ways to protect themselves from becoming a victim as well as installing loud audible alarms in random lockers. Locker break-ins appear to be a “crime of opportunity”. By simply increasing the risk of getting caught through signage and creating a sense that not only are staff at the facility keeping an eye out for locker thieves, but that every patron that is in the building is also aware of what a potential thief might be up to, thieves are now going to think twice about their actions.
The Bait Locker program is available to all public or private community recreation facilities that are experiencing locker break-ins or are simply looking to increase their security through visual deterrence. The posters and the alarms, as well as a manual listing helpful tips and procedures, can be picked up at the KOM CPC or we can come to your location and do a quick presentation to your staff at no charge. Being proactive is a great way to increase safety and security while minimizing the chance of someone becoming a victim of crime!
You can view VPD's Bait Locker program poster by clicking here.
