Policing is a fast-paced and dynamic profession that must go on pace and evolve with our rapidly irresolute earth. Through innovation and customs partnerships, the VPD upholds the highest standards and employs leading practices to attain excellence in public rubber and service. Recognized equally one of the globe's most livable major cities, Vancouver attracts people from various backgrounds who wish to live, work and play in a vibrant environs.

The VPD is seeking highly qualified and various candidates to bring together Vancouver's finest and make Vancouver the safest major city in Canada. The VPD offers a myriad of heady career opportunities within a supportive and rewarding work surround where all employees can thrive and reach their full potential while making a difference.

  • Technical

  • Challenges

Given the concrete demand of police work, maintaining a high level of fitness is essential.

Whether yous are patrolling by bike or chasing a suspect on pes, existence physically fit will give yous a necessary reward. Information technology can besides exist a healthy fashion to deal with stress.

In addition to knowing abort-and-control, and de-escalation tactics, y'all will be trained to handle and care for a variety of firearms and to operate law vehicles in emergency situations. Yous may go for extended periods without drawing your firearm in the field, however, yous must be prepared to use deadly force to protect yourself or others from grievous bodily impairment or death.

  • Technical

To be an effective police officeholder, yous are going to need sound knowledge of the police force and modern policing methods.

You lot will acquire:

  • portions of the Criminal Code of Canada
  • theMotor Vehicle Act
  • other federal and provincial statutes
  • the VPD's departmental policies and procedures

As a constabulary officer, you will evaluate situations based on your knowledge, feel, and available data when determining if a offense has occurred and who committed that crime. In some cases, yous will need to exercise discretion and tact in persuading people to comply with directions then that an arrest is not necessary.

At criminal offense scenes, y'all will pay close attending to detail and make observations on suspects and the crime scene itself. You will assemble relevant physical evidence and ensure that information technology remains safe and uncontaminated. Often, y'all will exist required to visualize and retrieve an event after the fact and so it can be documented accurately, possibly for court purposes.

  • Challenges

Police piece of work is not without risk. While high-stress and risky situations are the exception rather than the rule, yous demand to exist prepared for the unexpected. Long periods of routine tasks tin exist suddenly interrupted by an urgent call requiring firsthand intervention.

Today, VPD's recruits are amend trained and equipped than they take ever been. That grooming and experience will assistance you evaluate situations to ensure an appropriate response. At times, y'all will bargain with people who are intoxicated, loftier on drugs or in mental health crisis and, on occasion, people may direct their hostility at you. Once more, your training and experience will ensure you are able to respond professionally to any situation.

Remember, with these risks come rewards — although they can't all exist measured in dollars and cents. Saving a life, making a deviation, taking a criminal off the streets: these are your everyday rewards.

Pay and Benefits

  • Lifestyle

  • Benefits

  • Grooming

  • Teamwork

Probationary Lawman – $77,983

4th Class Lawman (after one yr) – $83,793

3rd Class Lawman (afterward two years) – $89,376

2nd Class Constable (after three years) – $100,542

1st Form Lawman (afterwards four years) – $111,709

VPD officers have many opportunities to work overtime during staffing shortages, at events, or on flick sets.

  • Lifestyle

Whether your playground is the ski hills, the ocean, or wood trails, or you are looking for world-class restaurants, nightlife, shopping, cultural and sporting events, Vancouver can offer information technology all. Add together to that unbeatable and memorable experiences for families, and you realize that Vancouver is the place to be.

  • Benefits

We offering ii weeks of holiday per year to offset, upwards to iii weeks in your second year, and the opportunity to accept overtime hours as additional vacation time.

Our extended medical and dental benefits are generous, and our pension programme ranks among the best government and private sector plans in terms of eligibility and monthly payments.

You'll find gyms in all of our police buildings, forth with a defended athletic therapist and physiotherapist on staff.

Our peer support system is second to none. We take intendance of our people.

  • Training

After graduation, you will be prepared to hit the streets of Vancouver, however, your training does not end there. The VPD is committed to grooming throughout your career.

You will take numerous opportunities to develop new skills, through in-firm courses, and avant-garde programs at the JIBC or the Canadian Police College. VPD members also train annually at our country-of-the-art tactical training centre, which includes an indoor firearms range and forcefulness options gymnasium.

  • Teamwork

In that location is a mutual bond that unites our officers, even though they come from many different backgrounds and circumstances: We are committed to public rubber, and to keeping one another safe. At the cease of the day, yous can return home, satisfied knowing that you and your squad mates have made a positive difference in the earth, and in the lives of others. When those days are difficult, you take an extraordinary group of co-workers, pulling you through, lifting you up, and making the earth right over again.

We take care of our people.

Basic Qualifications

The Vancouver Police force Department is looking for infrequent people who share our v ICARE core values.

  • minimum xix years of age
  • first-class character
  • physically fit and in excellent health
  • Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident
  • no criminal convictions, no developed criminal charges pending
  • a valid BC class v driver's licence with no restrictions and a practiced driving tape
  • meet the visual acuity standards
  • valid current standard first assistance / CPR "C" certification
  • Grade 12 diploma or equivalent, plus a minimum of thirty bookish post-secondary credits
  • fully vaccinated (defined as completion of the full vaccination cycle with a COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada) unless there is a valid exemption pursuant to the Homo Rights Code

Preferred Qualifications

  • a degree or diploma in any field of study
  • second language
  • volunteer experience