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Victoria Police Department (VicPD) is the municipal police force for the City of Victoria and the Township of Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. It is the oldest municipal police department in Canada west of the Great Lakes, the first Canadian law enforcement agency to deploy Tasers and VicPD created the first digital forensic unit in the country. They are also one of the few police departments in Canada to use the G36 rifle. VicPD is currently headed by Chief Frank Elsner, who took office on January 1, 2014. ==History== On July 8th, 1858, Vancouver Island Governor James Douglas appointed Augustus Pemberton as Commissioner of Police for the then British colony. Policing in Victoria pre-dated the city's founding (1862). Pemberton's appointment was published locally on July 17th, 1858. Prior to the Colonial Police under Pemberton, policing on Vancouver Island was conducted by the Victoria Voltigeurs. The Voltigeurs existed as an armed, uniformed militia that served all Vancouver Island on an "as and when needed" basis. It is thought that they were primarily of Metis background. Following the end of their service, in 1854 a single town Constable (Thomas Hall) policed the early town core. The Department was a shared Crown Colony, Province and City establishment through until the mid-1870s when control and oversight of the Department was left with the young City of Victoria. VicPD honours the memory of five officers who have lost their lives serving the citizens of Greater Victoria; the first officer, Constable Johnston Cochrane being murdered in 1859 and his death is marked as the first known law enforcement death in the Province of British Columbia. The most recent line of duty death was a tragic motorcycle incident that caused the death of Constable Earle Doyle in 1959. VicPD and their associated Victoria Police Historical Society placed a Memorial Cairn at their headquarters on Caledonia Avenue inscribing all five names. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victoria Police Department」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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