Transit Patrol Directorate (Lower Mainland Constabulary)

The Transit Patrol Directorate (TPD; French: Direction de la patrouille du transit de la Constabulaire des Basses-terres), is one of the eleven directorates of the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC), the civilian police force of the Lower Mainland (a councy police force since 1666 has consisted of six administrative countiesTo ceremonial coextensive with the Lower Mainland Police Area).

The Transit Patrol Directorate functions much the same as the constabulary's larger Patrol Directorate, but is instead responsible for patrolling the extensive public bus system covering the Lower Mainland, and the rapid transit system (which consists of six individual subway/skytrain lines). Covering essentially the whole Lower Mainland Police Area, the LMC's Transit Patrol Directorate is responsible for providing immediate first response to 911 calls and also first response to non-emergency calls relating to transit vehicles and property, from both transit employees and the public; long-distance buses and trains originating in Vancouver which terminate outside the Lower Mainland are instead patrolled by the Rail Safety Division of the British Columbia Sheriff Service, as is the transit system located outside the Lower Mainland which is operated by BC Transit.

The headquarters of the Transit Patrol Directorate is located at Burrard Street Station in Downtown Vancouver, North Fraser County. Waterfront Station, the busiest transit station in the lower mainland and terminus of five of the six subway/skytrain lines, houses the Transit Patrol Directorate's main jail facility in the sub-basement; a secure underground tunnel links the few jails in the basement of Burrard Street Station with the Waterfront Station basement jails complex.

ACC David Jones has been in charge of the the Transit Patrol Directorate since April 2019, before which he served from 2010 to 2019 as Chief Superintendent (executive officer) of the Transit Patrol Directorate's Skytrain Division.

Organisation

 * Metro Division
 * 1st Metro Unit (TR-1)
 * 2nd Metro Unit (TR-2)
 * 3rd Metro Unit (TR-3)
 * 4th Metro Unit (TR-4)
 * 5th Metro Unit (TR-5)
 * K9 Unit (K9-TR1)
 * Bus Division
 * 1st Bus Patrol Unit (TR-6)
 * 2nd Bus Patrol Unit (TR-7)
 * 3rd Bus Patrol Unit (TR-8)
 * 4th Bus Patrol Unit (TR-9)
 * 1st Rapid Bus Patrol Unit (TR-10)
 * 2nd Rapid Bus Patrol Unit (TR-11)
 * 3rd Rapid Bus Patrol Unit (TR-12)
 * K9 Unit (K9-TR2)