RCMP "E" Division

"E" Division is the British Columbia division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It is the largest police body operating in the province, providing federal, provincial, and municipal policing services. “E” Division has a strength of 5,900 sworn members and employs 1,700 civilian members and public service employees. In addition, approximately 1,200 Auxiliary Constables volunteer with “E” Division. It is the largest RCMP division, operating out of 127 local detachments with its headquarters at 657 West 37th Avenue in Vancouver. It polices all but 12 municipalities in the province. The RCMP “E” Division Headquarters Relocation Project is a major Crown initiative to relocate and consolidate existing RCMP headquarters units throughout the Metro Vancouver to a new site in the City of Surrey known as the Green Timbers Site.

The "E" Division is headed by Assistant Commissioner Craig Callens.^[3]

Recent developments

"E" Division has been the centre of attention with the media over the last few years due to the death of Robert Dziekański and how four of its members are appealing a court ruling giving the Braidwood Inquiry jurisdiction in assigning misconduct against the RCMP.

Programs

The "E" Division operates several Federal Business Lines. FBLs are specialized units of RCMP, municipal officers on secondments and other federal law enforcement agencies to tackle certain areas of crime which includes^[4]:

• Border Integrity Program - protect Canada's sovereignty at land and sea borders with CBSA
• Canadian Air Carrier Protection Program is a covert unit that works similar to US Air Marshals. The officers on this unit are known as Aircraft Protective Officers or, internationally, as In-Flight Security Officers.^[5]
• Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit - British Columbia - targets organized crimes
  • Integrated Gang Task Force - focus solely on gang violence and gang activities
    • Violence Suppression Team (Lower Mainland only)^[6]
• Drug Enforcement Branch - investigate and dismantle drug labs and drug trafficking
• Integrated Market Enforcement Team - targeting commercial and capital market frauds
• Integrated National Security Enforcement Team - investigate any crimes that threatenes national security. Most recently active on the EnCana pipeline bombing cases ^[7]
  • INSET-Vancouver: A joint venture between the E Division and Vancouver Police Department, operate out of VPD facilities instead of the INSET-BC Surrey operation base.^[8]
• Integrated Proceeds of Crime - targeting and seizing terrorist-related assets
• Protective Services Section - protects government officials (ie. Governor General, Prime Minister, Premiers and VIPs (ie. foreign heads of state and heads of government)

Previous programmes

• Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit - special task forcecreated to prevent criminal activities during the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics held in Vancouver, BC.

Fleet

• Eurocopter EC120B - C-GMPT

See also

• Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia

References