African-descent committee ends contact with Vancouver Police Board
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The African Descent VPD Advisory Committee, which was formed in 2021, decided the time has come to break away from the Vancouver Police Board.
A committee formed through community consultation at the request of the Vancouver Police Board has ended its contact with the city’s police board.
The African Descent Advisory Committee, which was formed in 2021, decided the time has come to break away.
The committee consisted of eight African-descent community leaders, along with Vancouver police officials.
The African-descent committee’s co-chair Sadie Kuehn said it has been a culmination of issues for the committee but the breaking point was the repeated feeling that they were not being listened to.
“(The Vancouver Police Board) wasn’t willing to work with us in collaboration to help make things better, not just for members of the African-Canadian community but for the whole community,” she told Global News.
“The dismissiveness and the disrespect of people who were willing to give their time and energy … the board and senior members of the force (were) not taking advantage of the commitment of the people around the table.”
The revitalization of the department’s school officer liaison program for Vancouver schools back in September was also a critical moment for the committee — a program they did not believe in.
The committee was vocal at the beginning of the school year saying the liaison program could potentially be harmful to Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer and disabled students.
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