Department size · Anticipatory Scandal

Substantiated allegations per officer, department by department.

What this is. This site reproduces what the OPCC publishes about concluded discipline cases. We added one flag: it marks the allegations involving gender-based violence. The methods page explains how the flag was built and checked. The numbers compare groups within one administrative record; they show how the gender-based violence cases were treated and cannot say why. That group is small, so a handful of cases can shift a percentage. We describe the allegations as substantiated because almost every one here, 1,235 of 1,243, ends in a disciplinary or corrective measure; the OPCC's own table does not use the word.

The rate, department by department

counted by allegation

The table divides each department's substantiated allegations, September 2010 to March 2025, by its authorized strength in 2023, taken from the BC government's Police Resources report (the PDF ships in the archive). One agency in the record is left out: the Organized Crime Agency of BC is an integrated unit with no published strength of its own, and it holds 5 allegations.

Department	Officers (2023)	All allegations	Cases	Gender-based violence allegations	All allegations per 100 officers	Gender-based violence allegations per 100 officers
Vancouver Police Department	1,448	448	262	37	31	2.6
Surrey Police Service	350	18	14	2	5	0.6
Victoria Police Department	255	86	52	11	34	4.3
Abbotsford Police Department	214	116	65	5	54	2.3
Delta Police Department	194	145	69	9	75	4.6
Metro Vancouver Transit Police (MVTP)	184	93	59	2	51	1.1
Saanich Police Department	166	103	57	8	62	4.8
New Westminster Police Department	114	58	40	7	51	6.1
West Vancouver Police Department	79	78	41	17	99	21.5
Port Moody Police Department	52	15	14	1	29	1.9
Oak Bay Police Department	24	16	9	2	67	8.3
Central Saanich Police Service	23	17	11	2	74	8.7
Nelson Police Department	21	32	24	3	152	14.3
Stl'atl'imx Tribal Police Service	14	13	6	1	93	7.1

Small departments produce more substantiated allegations per officer

Surrey sits out of the comparison that follows: its police service only began operating in the 2020s, so the other departments had fourteen and a half years to accumulate allegations and Surrey had about four. The 7 remaining departments with 100 or more officers together produced 1,049 allegations across 2,575 officers, about 41 per 100. The 6 departments under 100 officers produced 171 allegations across 213 officers, about 80 per 100. The extremes hold the pattern: Nelson, with 21 officers, shows 152 allegations per 100, and Vancouver, with 1,448, shows 31.

The gender-based violence subset runs the same way: the larger departments show 3 such allegations per 100 officers (79 across 2,575 officers) and the small departments show 12 (26 across 213).

West Vancouver's 78 allegations include the 25-allegation file discussed on the findings page; without that one file its rate falls from 99 to 67 per 100 officers, and 16 of its 17 gender-based violence allegations sit in that same file.

Read the rate carefully

The denominator is one year's strength set against fourteen and a half years of allegations, and departments changed size over that window, so these are rough rates for comparing departments, and the level itself means little. A higher rate can also reflect how a department and its complaint process work as much as how its officers behave: these are substantiated allegations, and departments differ in what gets complained about, investigated and proven. The two smallest denominators, Stl'atl'imx at 14 officers and Nelson at 21, can shift by tens of points on a handful of allegations.