Vancouver Police Department

Pretty much useless. I was visiting Vancouver on 8/2/19 and my rental car was broken into while parking in garage on Robson Street. I was with three other young women on a work trip and no officer even bothered to show up to help us. I lost about $1,700 worth of personal property and they don't seem to want to investigate at all. Probably because I'm non local and not Canadian. But also sounds like this kind of thing happens a lot and nothing is done. Parking garage had cameras but my police report states that no witness or no camera was in use. I have been trying to verify this but they are very difficult to get a hold of and don't seem to care at all anyway. Thanks VPD. Definitely won't ever visit again or tell anyone else to visit Vancouver. What a disappointing response.

Unfortunately not happy with Downtown and east side police department, they need to focus on those illegal markets on Hasting area were all those Vancouverites stollen property is for sale off the streets were all Junkies are laying down on the crosswalk and doing drugs and selling stollen items. I had a theft incident couple days a go, some one broke into my car it was parked on Howe and Smithe( safest are in downtown due to high volume of traffic and people).Following day I fixed my car window and I figured If I Cruise by all those little junkie markets on Hasting and Cordova,I might be able to find my boat accessories which was stolen that night, and yes it happened. Yeah so I called the police I did want to confirm with them before I had any contact with the junkies, the cop showed up and directly went into the crowd of junkies and picked up the item I pointed then I asked if this was it?So they made an effort to ask the crowd who is stuff this for sale? Every body either was silent or saying we don’t know. Basically the law enforcement at this particular area does a very weak performance. The safety of expensive downtown ( Vancouver in general) visitors and residents property is what they need to assure.”, they even are not helpful enough to invest and find those groups of people who are braking into peoples Cars in the heart of downtown. And stilling people’s stuff and selling them 5 blocks further down the street. Very very weak, very unprofessional and I feel so embarrassed if that would happen to a visitor or a tourist. This actually happened to me three times for the last four years and also exact same situation happened to one of my co-workers last week. apparently it’s pretty common I’m quite confident about the statistics I could guess since ICBC answering machine is also has a extension Number specifically for broken Glass or broken window, sounds like it.

Was pulled over by an officer under this district, given a bogus reason when really it was me being black in a really nice car that happened to be out of province plated. Everyone knows that rental cars have insurance associated with them especially the big named ones Enterprise, Hertz, Budget so it doesn’t even make sense as to why I was even stopped. However after my initial conversation with the officer he called backup, and they surrounded me. My girlfriend came downstairs and that’s when he starts to somewhat believe I’m legit because my WHITE girlfriend came outside, and explained to them the same thing I told them. One of the cops literally screamed “that’s his girlfriend guys let’s move along.” And like 3 squad cars left promptly after. The officer comes back we speak about the insurance, then he proceeds to ask me why doesn’t he doesn’t have any police interactions recorded in their system of myself? Well maybe because 1. I’m not from here 2. I value the price that it costs to be a free man and choose to follow the laws like any other white person? If it wasn’t for my girlfriend coming outside, I would’ve been deeply harassed. When even the cop knew and even admitted that if a company had registered a car especially a big rental company there would be definite insurance. Maybe not directly for the vehicle but there will be a group insurance policy which would cover any vehicles that is registered to the company. ( btw that policy was shown to the cops and they still surrounded me like I was a drug dealer or something. I’ve never experienced this anywhere in Canada and don’t expect to come back to Vancouver based on this terrifying experience.)