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The Vancouver Police Department says it’s committed to implementing all recommendations addressed to the force from the inquest into Const. Nicole Chan’s suicide.
The VPD has outlined how it will respond to the inquest in a report that’s due to be presented to the Vancouver Police Board on Thursday.
The 10-day inquest into Chan’s death, which concluded Feb. 1, made eight recommendations to the police focused on training, recruiting and human resources matters.
Chan, 30, took her own life hours after being released from the Vancouver General Hospital access and assessment centre, where she was taken after she was apprehended by VPD officers under the Mental Health Act as a suicide risk.
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