Vancouver Island Provincial Police

The Vancouver Island Provincial Police (VIPP) is the regular police service and largest law enforcement agency of the Canadian province of Vancouver Island. It has its headquarters in the provincial capital of Victoria. In addition to its law enforcement responsibilities at the provincial level, which include multi-county or province-wide investigations, patrol of Crown land and provincial roads and highways, and counterterrorism and other special operations, each upper-tier and lower-tier municipality (the ten counties and their constituent incorporated municipalities) of Vancouver Island contracts with the VIPP to maintain a local detachment responsible for municipal-level policing. Unincorporated communities are policed by their county's detachment, while all incorporated lower-tier municipalities within each county are policed primarily by their own municipal detachment. Each detachment consists of at least one station, with some consisting of as many as six depending on population as well as size of geographical area covered.

While each police station of Vancouver Island consists of a jail to hold persons arrested by the VIPP, arrestees not due for release within 24 hours are transferred to the custody of a separate agency, namely the Vancouver Island Correctional Service, which administers all non-federal prisons, remand centres and other correctional institutions in the province, as well as the provincial parole and probation program. The actual transportation of prisoners or detainees between jails, remand centres, prisons, court, and other facilities is the responsibility of the Vancouver Island Sheriff Service, which also provides judicial policing and bailiff services for the provincial court system, which includes maintaining security at courthouses and enforcing order during trials, administering courthouse jails, serving court-issued warrants, protecting senior officials of the provincial government as well as those in the judicial system, and assisting the Provincial Police with other law enforcement activities as requested.

Ranks

 * 1) Constable
 * 2) Sergeant
 * 3) Staff Sergeant
 * 4) Inspector
 * 5) Detective Inspector
 * 6) Detective Chief Inspector
 * 7) Superintendent
 * 8) Chief Superintendent
 * 9) Assistant Chief Constable
 * 10) Deputy Chief Constable
 * 11) Chief Constable