VPD Details Four-Year Plan to Curb Opioid Overdose

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The City of Vancouver has started reviewing its current strategy on curbing opioid overdose at City Hall Tuesday and the Vancouver Police Department has presented its mid-term strategy, taking the department into 2021. The department presented a six-point plan drawn from feedback received through surveys of Vancouver residents, businesses and visitors.

VPD Chief, Adam Palmer, explained that the department’s approach will be multi-faceted and involves correspondence with mental health, community and First Nations resources. Moreover, the department vowed to ensure front-line officers are appropriately equipped to respond to overdoses by possessing naloxone. Discussing the drug epidemic on Vancouver streets, Palmer alleged that it’s all about targeting the top tier of operators. He elucidated that “you take out a large quantity of drugs like that, like 56 kilograms of cocaine; by the time that that is stepped on and cut and moved on to the street level, that would work out to, you know, hundreds – perhaps thousands of dealers that would be trafficking that. So if you take it off at the higher level, you’re basically cutting off the supply chain for many people.”

Additionally, the VPD plans to conduct a review of its staffing resources after a decade. Palmer stated that “we just started on that in the Fall. We’ve already done our patrol areas, which is our front line response, and now we’re working on the investigation division and some of the administrative areas behind the scenes, because if we do need more resources, I want to build a proper business case.”

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