Off the 'Cuff

The Vancouver Police Department’s Annual Reports had, until the 1960s, short descriptions, usually only a paragraph long, of many of the big crimes, murders and suicides that had occurred during the year. These descriptions were thumbnail sketches of the passions and pains that drive humans to commit such acts. Extreme poverty, drug addiction, drunkenness and [...]

The item below was researched and written by museum staff and board member and was originally published in the Vancouver Police Department’s 2008 Annual Report. The tradition of going Beyond the Call has very early roots in the Vancouver Police Department. As far back as 1917, no one believed in the principle more strongly than [...]

The item below was written by us and was originally published in the Vancouver Police Department’s 2007 Annual Report. “The truth is not always pleasing–and it is the truth that during the last ten years the drug evil has required more strenuous handling by the Force in Vancouver than in any preceding years…The illicit drug [...]

The item below was written by us and was originally published in the Vancouver Police Department’s 2006 Annual Report… No one said that becoming a police officer would be easy, but for Constable Lurancy D. Harris the challenges were unique. By 1912, the city had grown to the extent that women were becoming more often [...]