Our Office is located at 6070 East Boulevard in Kerrisdale. We are a non-profit organization that works in partnership with ICBC and the Vancouver Police Department.
Our Community Policing Office is a place where our volunteers and police officers can work with the residents, business owners and the community to work on crime prevention planning and discuss concerns. Our foot, bike patrol and office coordinators work to organize community patrols and crime prevention programs in the community.
Constable Elizabeth Miller works fulltime as our Neighbourhood Police Officer (NPO) and can regularly be found patrolling our area.
Latest News:
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Spring 2009 Newsletter
Our Spring 2009 Newsletter is available for download now. Please click here to download it to your computer.
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Changes in Board of Directors
A new Board of Directors was elected at the Annual General Meeting on March 4, 2009. Please click here to find out who they are.
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Change of Neighbourhood Police Officer (NPO)
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new NPO, Cst. Elizabeth Miller. She recently joined KOM CPC and became a member of our big family. At the same time, we would like to thank Cst. Ray Gardner, our departing NPO, for all of his valuable contributions to our community in the past 3 years. He has accepted a new job assignment with the Vancouver Police Department and we wish him good luck.
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Crime Prevention Tips For Spring
Gardeners should take their cell phones or land phones with a long extension, keys, and lock their doors, windows, garages before they start work. The remote device for keys has an alarm which is also very useful, should a panic button is necessary if you are being attacked on your property. An intruder fears attraction. Make an inventory of all your gardening tools and engrave them with your personal licence numbers as a safety precaution.
Glue down all garden ornaments as they have become target items for thieves and make a photo of your garden prized plants or shrubs.
Put back all ladders back in a secured storage area. Ladders have been used to reach upper floors of homes.
Trim down all shrubbery and trees to avoid an intruder hiding inside or behind your property.
While walking, be mindful of strangers. If necessary, carry shoulder purses over your neck not loose over your arms to avoid purse snatchers while walking, running or putting your groceries and other purchases in your vehicles.
Never leave anything in your vehicles as any article is worth money to the auto thieves, apart from making damages.
Never walk or jog or bike with technical and electronic equipment to avoid unexpected intruders. It is a distraction.
Always walk facing traffic and wear light clothing.
It is prudent to carry an umbrella, flashlight and a whistle to distract attention.
Never open your doors to strangers.
If travelling, never use your own address on your tags, use initials rather full name on tags, and watch your luggage at all times.
As a preventive measure, close all doors, windows, blinds, shades, skylights, drapes or curtains and any other point of entry of your homes and garages. Reinforce all locks and check before exiting. Use bars for lower floors. If you make it difficult for their point of entry, they will move on to another property.
Use a monitor for all lights.
Lock all doors and windows of vehicles, use an immobilizer, club, wheel locks and gas locks.
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Strategic Plan for KOMCPC’s “Operation Anti-Graffiti” Program
The purpose of the KOM CPC’s “ANTI-GRAFFITI” program is to service the various businesses within the KOM (Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Marpole) and to remove graffiti. Our volunteers will help the community to reduce and eliminate another criminal element in our three areas. We need the manpower of cooperative, responsible volunteers to arrange a certain time and location to help the victims. The City provides all paint, namely, white, black terra cotta, beige, gray and green. However, if the owner wishes to match the exact colour of the paint, the owner of the property must provide the paint. The volunteers or KOM CPC will not be held responsible for any poor workmanship. The owner of the property must sign a consent form to authorize all volunteers participating on the designated location. Each business will contact our KOM CPC should they need our service. It will be our commitment to wipe out all graffiti.
The City bylaw states that all owners of property must remove graffiti within ten days of notification. After the grace period, the City will then remove the graffiti and bill the owners. The time period will give us sufficient time to call all interested volunteers.
Check website: http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/graffiti
The contact at KOM CPC is 604 717-3434 for Tony Bulic, KOM CPC coordinator and his assistant, Joanne Wong.
Private residences may contact the City for a free paint kit to remove graffiti twice a year.
Call 604 873-7798For any building in excess of ten (10 ) feet in height we cannot wipe out the graffiti for safety reasons.
A sign up list for the Anti-Graffiti program will be posted at the KOM office. There will be three contingency teams:
Team K for Kerrisdale, Team O for Oakridge and Team M for Marpole.
Once we have been contacted, a team of volunteers will be mobilized at the KOM office to pick up the paint supplies.To some, Graffiti is an art or expression; to the owners of properties, it is a criminal offence, causing defacement to property. Owners of graffiti art repeat their offences, so to remove graffiti with expediency takes away the thrill from the perpetrators.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Best regards,
Donna Chan, interim team captain for “Operation Anti-Graffiti” Program.
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