Vancouver Police Department

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) was a municipal law enforcement agency which existed for nearly 94 years. It was responsible for policing the City of Vancouver, as well as the neighbouring municipalities of Kerrisdale, Marpole, Musqueam and Point Grey.

The VPD was formed on 10 May 1886, when Vancouver's first police officer, Chief Constable John Stewart, was appointed by the first meeting of the Vancouver City Council. By 1940 the department had grown to 570 members.

On 30 April 1980, the Vancouver Police Department, along with Metro Vancouver/the Lower Mainland's five other municipal police departments and all the region's municipal detachments of the British Columbia Provincial Police (BCPP), were amalgamated into a single force called the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC), which to this day remains the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the region, with the BCPP handling only law enforcement in the Lower Mainland at the provincial level.