'Alone and unsafe': Woman afraid after VicPD officer loses notebook with her address

A Vancouver Island woman says she feels unsafe and is full of questions after police warned her that her address was contained in a notebook that was lost by a Victoria police officer in late December.

A Vancouver Island woman says she feels unsafe and is full of questions after police warned her that her address was contained in a notebook that was lost by a Victoria police officer in late December.

On Thursday, VicPD said that an officer had lost their notebook for a five-day period in December, and that the notebook's contents were copied and "circulated among the criminal element of Greater Victoria."

Police said they also suspect that some information from the notebook was used in another criminal offence in Saanich, B.C.

The notebook was not reported missing until this month, prompting Victoria Police Chief Del Manak to issue an apology and call for an investigation from the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner.

Manak said the police department's "primary concern" is to ensure that people identified in the notebook feel like they are being supported.

The police department also said there was no indication that people whose information was in the notebook should be concerned about additional criminal activity.

However, a woman who spoke with CTV News on Friday says she feels unsafe and unsupported by the police department.