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Precinct Information

Recent staffing reductions have impacted public access and counter service at Vancouver Police Department facilities. The Vancouver Police East Precinct lobby will be open to the public when the Construction Services Office is open from during 7:30 – 4:30 but there is is NO counter service at this location. However, citizens can pick up accident forms and other printed materials. An emergency phone with a direct contact to 911 is located outside the front door of East Precinct for citizens needing immediate assistance from a Police Officer. Counter service for the public will only be available at the VPD West Precinct (2800 NE Stapleton Rd) between 9am – 4pm, Monday-Friday. 

Citizens can obtain a variety of information from the Vancouver Police Department website at www.vanpolice.org. The website allows citizens to download the Washington State Vehicle Accident form and even make a low level crime report online. Both of these options are on the home page. Staffing at VPD facilities will remain limited until the budget crisis is resolved so the VPD website is an excellent resource for information.

Community Oriented Policing

In July 2007 the Vancouver Police Department implemented 'Territorial Policing' which divides the Precinct into two Districts which are each led by a Lieutenant. Each District is supervised by a Sergeant and has a Neighborhbood Police Officer assigned to it. Within the Districts Police Officers are assigned individual Beats. This assignment provides them to opportunity to become more familiar with the crime trends, the neighborhoods, the businesses and the citizens living and working in that beat.

Beat jurisdictions are divided on neighborhood association lines so that neighborhood associations are not broken up. Some beats will naturally include more neighborhoods than others but no established associations will be divided into more than one Beat.

The advantage of this type of structure is the increased personal accountability and responsibility by the Commanders who oversee their Precinct, the Lieutenants and Sergeants who are responsible for their individual Districts and the Officers who are responsible for their individual Beats.  

Neighborhood Police Officers

Each Precinct now has two Neighborhood Police Officers (NPO), each assigned to a district. The NPO’s are the liaisons to the citizens within their district and are available to meet with neighbors to discuss crime issues, livability issues, attend community meetings and to answer questions about crime trends and prevention. These officers are the main contact person for a citizen within a district to go to when there are crime issues or other concerns that the police department can assist them with. These officers work cross departmentally as well to assist citizens with problem solving strategies as well.  

Precinct Staff

• Cmdr. Dave King
• Lt. Steve Neal
• Lt. Doug Luse
• Neighborhood Police Officers: (360) 487-7540

            Cpl. Charlie Ford

            Cpl. Doug Rickard

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