Victoria Police Department
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Victoria Police Department is the municipal police service for the City of Victoria, British Columbia.
[edit] Organization
Victoria Police is headed by Chief of Police Paul Battershill and has a total strength of 250 sworn officers.
The police department is divided into divisions:
- Primary Response Division
- Traffic Section
- Hit and Run
- Targeted Policing Division
- Investigative Services Division
- Executive Services
- Information Management
- HR Division
The force also employes Reserve Police Officers, otherwise known as Auxiliary police officers.
[edit] History
On July 17, 1858, Vancouver Island Governor James Douglas named Augustus Pemberton as Commissioner of Police for the then British colony. Policing in Victoria pre-dated the city's founding (1862).
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