Metro Vancouver's Transit Police: Transit Police

Transit Police Dept: Jordan Bateman, the B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, says the annual budget for Metro Vancouver's Transit Police is already twice the size it needs to be, according to CBC. "Two-thirds of Transit Police files are fare checks, and a Vancouver Police Department audit showed the average transit cop works on less than ten serious or property crime files a year," said Bateman earlier this week. Metro Vancouver's Transit Police patrol the region's public transit system. Richard Lam/Canadian Press The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is questioning whether Transit Police will be worth their $27-million annual cost once TransLink's new fare gates are installed on the SkyTrain and CanadaLine system. The force pays nearly 60 of it's 167 officers more than $100,000 each a year to perform fairly routine police work, says Bateman, who has been a persistent critic of the cost of the force. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.