New Westminster Police Service
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| Established | 1873 |
| Jurisdiction | Municipal |
| Chief | Lorne Zapotichny |
| Website | http://www.nwpolice.org |
The New Westminster Police Service (NWPS) is the police force for the City of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
The force was created in 1873 when the city council hired Jonathan Morey, a former sergeant with the Royal Engineers, Columbia detachment who stayed behind after the detachment was disbanded in 1863. Prior to that, New Westminster was policed by ad hoc temporary appointments of members of the community to act as magistrates. The British Columbia Provincial Police also policed the city a few years before the NWPS was formed. The force now has around one hundred members. Key events that affected the development of the city's police department include the Great Fire of 1898, a Bank of Montreal theft in 1911, and the introduction of new policing technologies, such as two-way radio patrol cars in 1935, and the installation of laptop computers in 1997.[1] The Chief Constable is Lorne Zapotichny. The other senior managers are Deputy Chief Constable Mike Judd, Inspector Dave Jones, and Inspector Frank Ciaccia. The police station is located at 6th and Columbia Streets at 555 Columbia, which includes a police museum.
[edit] References
- ^ Ted Usher, "A Brief History of the New Westminster Police," Retrieved 4 July 2007.
[edit] See Also
- E-Comm, 9-1-1 call and dispatch centre for Southwestern BC
