In 1998 BC's Auxiliary/Reserve Police was disarmed and the Program deconstructed and rebuilt into an entirely different type of program.

The role of the Auxiliary/Reserve Constable shifted from that of a highly trained para-professional police officer whose primary purpose was to assist regular police officers in the performance of their everyday duties... to that of a low trained community volunteer whose primary purpose was to assist in the delivery of community police activities.

This section documents the carefully scripted manipulation of the political process which deprived British Columbia of this valuable public asset.

Part 1: The original program

Part 2: The Auxiliary as manpower threat

Part 3: How the Program was dismantled

Part 4: An artificial liability situation is created

Part 5: BC Municipalities demand the return of their Auxiliary Police

Part 6: A new government pledges to restore the program

Part 7: Pressure mounts on BC Liberal Government not to restore Auxiliary

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