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$
5,000
mental health
practitioner benefit
3
on-site fitness facilities
and classes
52
weeks, maternity and parental
leave top-up pay
4
day compressed work week
shifts and scheduling that works
with employees’ specific life
situations.
“There are ups and downs in
this job. Police officers are going
to have very difficult calls and be
put into situations other people in
The Vancouver Police Department oversees crowds outside of a Taylor Swift concert at the Rogers Arena in
Vancouver.
society never have to deal with,”
Chan says. “It’s important we have
these supports.”
All three main VPD locations
have “world-class” gyms and
on-site physiotherapy and
massage therapy, Lui notes. She
acknowledges from personal
experience that coming to
a recruiting event can be
intimidating for those with no
police background. She urges
the curious to go anyway.
“What I thought it was is
completely different than what
it actually is like,” she says of her
work at the VPD. “We are not
chasing cars every day. We do that,
but also we are helping families
through tough times, people who
are displaced.”
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