Why the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service should be designated as a provincial police service

By Bryce J. Casavant, Associate lecturer, School of Humanitarian Studies, Royal Roads University

British Columbia’s proposed new police law, Bill 17, has excluded provincial armed environmental law enforcement from its legal definition of “police.” Why does this matter?

At the heart of this issue lies a fundamental legal question. Should environmental police services be treated in the law as regular police and, crucially, subject to the same regulatory oversight?

For many officers,…

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