Charges in 4 major VPD drug investigations have been sunk by charter rights violations in past 3 years

Project Trooper, Project Talon, Project Thorne and Project Tent were all major investigations by the drug squad of the Vancouver Police Department. Each one took months to complete and required significant investments of resources and people power.

And yet, in each case, criminal prosecutions have fallen apart because of constitutional violations by the investigating officers.

Defence lawyer Neil Cobb represented the suspects in three of those cases, and he alleges they are "entirely representative of the way this specialized, highly funded unit of VPD officers go about the difficult work of investigating serious drug crimes on a day-to-day basis.

"A culture of 'ends justifies the means' has been noted."

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