Report on claim of VPD Task Force Barrage arrest quota coming in June [Video]

The Vancouver Police Board says a “full report” into a complaint about political motivations and arrest quotas for a crack down on crime in the Downtown Eastside will be delivered in June.

Director Allan Black has told a board meeting the complaint centred on the Vancouver Police Department’s “recent expectation of setting arrest quotas,” and the report into the complaint will be delivered by the board’s next meeting on June 19.

Agenda materials for the meeting on Thursday included a heavily redacted email to the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner from an anonymous whistleblower purporting to be a disenchanted Vancouver police officer.

The complaint from last month says the department arbitrarily set arrest quotas as part of Mayor Ken Sim’s “Task Force Barrage,” an initiative in the Downtown Eastside to crack down on drug-related and other violence and crime.