
ALT Screenshot of a vertical bar graph, title "Physical Control Hard Used Totals by Year (2016 to 2020) shows incidents going up for Vancouver Police. 2016: 422; 2017: 466; 2018: 547; 2019: 873; 2020: 1061. Text below reads: The Subject Behaviour Officer Response {SBORR) is a provincially mandated requirement. Starting in 2017 the VPD increased SBORR education and training to alert members of provincial reporting requirements. Members received training to report their use of force not only in their text pages of police reports, but also in the SBORR template. This likely increased the number of incidents that were documented in SBORR reports, which contributed to the apparent uptrend in use of force statistics. The education and update of members within the VPD on SBORR thresholds and need to record use of force in the template took approximately 2 years due to the large size of the department. These statistics are expected to plateau with training completion.












