A Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy, reworked policing centres, and a restorative justice system
What Vote Vancouver has published about policing and public safety, and what it has not.
POLICING AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Vote Vancouver on public safety
The document sets out a multi-part public safety plan built around prevention and coordination rather than a police budget figure.
It also states a School Board position on School Liaison Officers, kept out of uniform and rebranded away from policing, which sits on the schools area of this page instead.
4 PUBLISHED COMMITMENTS
What they say they will do
A Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy
The party would develop this strategy with police, healthcare providers, non-profits, Indigenous organizations, businesses and community groups.
Rework Community Policing Centres into neighbourhood hubs
Community Policing Centres would become hubs for crime prevention, community referrals, youth mentorship and connecting residents to services, prioritizing prevention over criminalization.
Expand gender-based violence prevention work
The party would expand policies and working groups on gender-based violence, crediting a motion by Rebecca Bligh.
Become Canada's first Restorative City
The party would build a restorative justice system, training city staff with Peace of the Circle and applying what it calls the Vancouver Test to future policy decisions.
What is not published
- Most items name no cost and no date. The document credits several of these to Rebecca Bligh personally, and those are also recorded on her own candidate record.
IN THE FULL PLATFORM
More on public safety in the Policy Priorities
The party's full platform document covers this issue in 2 chapters. Each chapter page lists every commitment with its PDF page and says which government would have to act.
Sources
A source marked SAYS SO ITSELF is the party's own material. It proves what the party claims, not that the claim is true.
- Vote Vancouver home page SAYS SO ITSELFVote Vancouver · checked
- Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities SAYS SO ITSELFVote Vancouver · checked
- Who is running: official 2026 candidate list City of Vancouver · checked
- Local elections disclosure statement search Elections BC · checked
- Elector organizations: registration and financial reporting duties Elections BC · checked
- Making a campaign contribution Elections BC · checked