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District 1 Community Forum

In case you were unable to attend the District 1 Community Forum held on November 4rh here is a link to the coverage courtesy of CVTV.

West Precinct Open House 

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About West Precinct

The Vancouver Police Department West Precinct is located at 2800 NE Stapleton Road and serves citizens within the city limits west of Andresen. The West Precinct is staffed with patrol squads, non-sworn Police Service Technicians, Neighborhood Police Officers and a Community Policing Specialist.

With only two precincts currently, this facility,formerly known as Central, is now called West Precinct. This name change is important as it allows for future precincts that better describe their geographical locations in relation to the existing precincts.

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 Neighborhood 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. George Delgado
• Lt. Mike Whitney
• Lt. Doug Luse
• Neighborhood Police Officers: (360) 487-7359

           Cpl. Drue Russell

           Cpl. Duane Boynton

• Community Policing Specialist (360) 487-7361

            Judy Stewart