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Originally Posted by Traum

This is really very disappointing, but I am not at all surprised by the outcome. I've just heard back from the VPD Information and Privacy Unit regarding 2 FOI requests that I've sent.

The back story is, after the CTV (or was it CBC) news article came out regarding the spike in VI's, I submitted a FOI request asking for the number of VI's issued by our fav cop and a potential partner of his over roughly the same period as the CTV reporter has reported on. My goal was to compare and see whether our fav officer has been disportionately issuing VI's compared to his colleagues. If that is the case, that could be a potential problem right there.

Additionally, after the Metrotown Mazda visit incident in March, I submitted another FOI request asking for any notes Mr. Fav Officer & partner might have gathered from the incident. The motivation behind that was to see whether there has been any interference from the enforcement / executive branch (ie. the VPD) to the inspection / judicial branch (CVSE inspectors), which IMO, is unacceptable.

Here are the replies from the VPD IPU:


In my FOI request, I have very specifically indicated that I am not at all interested in any of the personal information that is collected in the VIs -- ie. I am not asking for information about the vehicle owners. I am also not interested in any person information regarding the officers. I purely only wanted to find out the total number of VI's that have been issued by the 2 said officers, so that I can compare it the same numbers from all members of the VPD. This will allow me to tell whether the said officiers have been disportionately taking on this VI intitiative, and potentially build a case there to have the situation changed, or at least examined. To have the VPD hide behind a facade of personal employment and occupational info is a farce and a sham -- honestly, I should really just say it is horseshit. If VPD can use this lamea$$ excuse to hide behind information release pertaining to the behaviour of their officers, they might as well disallow any conduct and ethics complaints on VPD officers since they can just hide behind the same wall and not release any information they may have on it.

Will have to sit down and think this one through. Really not sure where I can go from here.

I think we can try to take VPD's suggestion to take it to the "Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC and request a review of the VPD’s decision". Even if nothing comes out of that, at the very least another department will be involved and will at least know about it. It helps to leave more paper / document trails regarding this "potential" misconduct on our fav officer.