THE Vancouver police The department has a new Top COP.
Steve Rai was officially appointed the 32nd head of the department on Thursday, after the retirement of former chef Adam Palmer.
Rai has been as an interim conductor since Palmer resigned.
“Chef Rai brings more than three decades of experience with the VPD,” said the mayor of Vancouver, Ken Sim, in a press release.
“He worked in almost all areas of the department, starting as a front line officer in the city center of Eastside and raising the ranks to direct the major operations of the city, including the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and the riot of the 2011 Stanley Cup.”
SIM also underlined RAI’s work on recruitment and training, well-being and cultural skills and the adoption of new technologies in the department as an active.
Rai holds a baccalaureate with arts in Asian studies of the UBC and a master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of the Valley to Fraser. Before his career with the VPD, he served in the reserves of the Canadian Forces.
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Rai signed with the VPD in 1990, while heading towards the Patrol Constable through a variety of missions, in particular as a crisis negotiator of the emergency intervention team, and was promoted to the rank of inspector in 2007 when he was operated as general manager at the office of the main agent.
He served in the training and recruitment section as a force endowed for the 2010 Olympic Games, and was the Departmental Vancouver Operations Center during the Games themselves, as well as the Response of Force to Occupy Vancouver and as a commander of the North during the Romant of the 2011 Stanley Cup.
Rai was also at the center of the department’s response to the attack on the vehicle of the Lapu Lapu day, an incident he judged the “darkest day” in the history of the city.
He was promoted to his last role as head of the assistant division of support services in 2015, who saw him direct the hiring of the majority of current and civil members and the spearhead of cultural training and training programs in the department.
“Chef Rai played a key role in training how the VPD serves our city today,” added Sim.
“He is a decorated officer, a pioneer and a chef who embodies what it means to serve and protect the vancouvertes.”
Rai is the second assistant chief of VPD to obtain a promotion to a leading job in recent months.
In April, the deputy chief Finoa Wilson was used to be The next master chief of the Victoria police departmentA role she will assume this summer.
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