Operations
The VPD is a small police unit with two stations and several sub-stations:
- Main Headquarters Building in Victoria 850 Caledonia Ave
- West Division in Esquimalt - shared facility with Esquimalt Fire Department and former Township of Esquimalt Public Safety Building
- James Bay Sub Station
- Blanshard Sub Station
- Fairfield Sub Station
- Vic West Sub Station
- Fernwood Sub Station
Neighbourhood patrol areas are:
- Esquimalt
- Panhandle
- Selkirk
- Colville
- Parklands
- Rockheights
- Devonshire
- West Bay
- Esquimalt Village
- Saxe Point
- Victoria
- Burnside
- Hillside/Quadra
- North Park
- Oaklands
- Victoria West
- Downtown
- Harris Green
- Fernwood
- North Jubilee
- Rockland
- James Bay
- Fairfield
- Gonzales
Previous VPD headquarters:
- Bastion Square 1860-1880s
- Victoria City Hall 1880s-1918
- Fisgard Street 1918-?
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Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)