Close X
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
ADVT 
National

India-Born Steve Rai Becomes Vancouver Police Deputy Chief

Darpan News Desk IANS, 20 Jun, 2015 01:23 PM
    India-born Steve Rai has been appointed the new deputy chief of Canada's Vancouver Police Department, according to a media report.
     
    Police chief Adam Palmer announced that Rai has joined the department’s executive team as the new deputy, Vancouver Courier reported on Thursday.
     
    Born in Punjab but raised in this west coast seaport city of British Columbia state, Rai has been serving the department for the past 25 years. 
     
    "I'm proud for my father because he was another unsung hero. As an immigrant, he encouraged his kids to stay on the right path. And 25 years later, I’m standing here,” the report quoted Rai as saying at a press conference on Tuesday.
     
     
    "I just wanted to come out and catch criminals and put them in jail... Never in my mind did I think 25 years later that I'd be standing here as the deputy chief," he added.
     
    Vancouver is among Canada's densest and most ethnically diverse cities, which is home to a large number of Indian-origin people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a temple and a gurdwara in the city in the final leg of his official visit to Canada in April this year. 

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Court Orders Feds To Turn Over Files On Leak About Former Terror Suspect

    Court Orders Feds To Turn Over Files On Leak About Former Terror Suspect
    A Canadian man the federal government once accused of terrorism has won a small victory in his ongoing legal battle for compensation for damaging leaks of government documents to the media.

    Court Orders Feds To Turn Over Files On Leak About Former Terror Suspect

    B.C. Man Gets 2.5 Years In Prison After Crash That Left Nurse With Spinal-Cord Injury

    B.C. Man Gets 2.5 Years In Prison After Crash That Left Nurse With Spinal-Cord Injury
    A 22-year-old B.C. man has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for a hit-and-run crash that left a licensed practical nurse a quadriplegic.

    B.C. Man Gets 2.5 Years In Prison After Crash That Left Nurse With Spinal-Cord Injury

    $20-Million Fund To Help Sex Workers Get Out Of The Industry Is 'Over-Subscribed'

    $20-Million Fund To Help Sex Workers Get Out Of The Industry Is 'Over-Subscribed'
    There are more groups than money available for the government's proposed $20 million plan to get sex workers out of the industry, Justice Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.

    $20-Million Fund To Help Sex Workers Get Out Of The Industry Is 'Over-Subscribed'

    Yosef Gopaul Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Killing Surrey Hockey Mom; Says Sorry, Wants Rehab

    Yosef Gopaul Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Killing Surrey Hockey Mom; Says Sorry, Wants Rehab
     The family of a British Columbia woman whose motto was "money isn't worth dying for" wept as a 28-year-old man was sentenced for manslaughter after blindsiding her with a rock to the head outside a neighbourhood ice arena.

    Yosef Gopaul Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Killing Surrey Hockey Mom; Says Sorry, Wants Rehab

    Vancouver Aquarium Dolphin Hana In Critical Condition After Surgery

    One of two Pacific white-sided dolphins at the Vancouver Aquarium is in critical condition after groundbreaking emergency surgery for a gastrointestinal disorder.

    Vancouver Aquarium Dolphin Hana In Critical Condition After Surgery

    Shooting Outside Coquitlam Centre Mall Puts A Man In Hospital, Gunman On Loose

    Shooting Outside Coquitlam Centre Mall Puts A Man In Hospital, Gunman On Loose
    The shooting that put the unidentified man in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries took place Friday at about 2:45 p.m. in a parking lot at Coquitlam Centre

    Shooting Outside Coquitlam Centre Mall Puts A Man In Hospital, Gunman On Loose