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British Columbia Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement (BCCVSE) - CVSE began in 1958 as the B.C. Department of Commercial Transport and became responsible for 15 fixed scale facilities and six portable patrol vehicles throughout the Province of BC to protect the highway infrastructure from overloaded vehicles. In the late 1980s the ...
In 1988 the agency also absorbed the BC Highways Patrol officers, which had been in existence as well in BC since 1958. This expanding mandate and broadening focus on public safety led the former weighmasters, highway patrol officers and government vehicle inspectors into becoming commercial transport inspectors and portable inspectors.
The BCPP became the first law-enforcement agency to develop an air arm, crime laboratories, and sophisticated sections for fingerprints, firearms and ballistics, identification, highway patrol, and investigation divisions. Special constables attached to the BCPP for the 1935 waterfront strike in Vancouver.
In BC, the RCMP operates at all three levels: federal, provincial, and municipal contract policing, except in communities served by municipal police departments.In this structure, they have the ability to mobilize large numbers of police officers from within the province and across Canada in the case of a crisis, and access a wide range of specialized units to tackle local and cross ...
Old alignment of Highway 1 north of Mt. Sicker Road. Hwy 1A: 16 10 Hwy 1 in Victoria: Hwy 1 near Langford: Gorge Road, Admirals Road, Old Island Highway, Goldstream Avenue 1956 c. 1990s Former Hwy 1 in Victoria Hwy 1A: 16 10 Former Hwy 1 in Parksville: Port Alberni: Alberni Highway 1942 1953 Replaced by Hwy 4. Hwy 1A: 4 2 Hwy 1 in West Vancouver
The California Highway Patrol is searching for two dirt bike riders who started a multi-city police chase Thursday afternoon that garnered more than a dozen other bikers.. Two riders are accused ...
1-216 Series — core highway network Hwy 1-100 — intercity (Hwy 100 is unmarked, ex:Hwy 2) Hwy 201, 216 — orbital routes (ex:Hwy 216) 500-986 Series — local highways Hwy 500-699 — west-east routes (ex:Hwy 501) Hwy 700-899 — south-north routes (ex:Hwy 881) 900 and X series — potential realignments and extensions (ex:Hwy 986)
Founded in 1857, it is the oldest law enforcement agency in the province. Sheriffs are provincial peace officers appointed under the BC Sheriff Act and BC Police Act with authority to enforce all relevant federal and provincial acts, including the criminal code throughout British Columbia while in the lawful execution of their duties.