A jury issued 12 recommendations after seven days of proceedings; eight were directed to the VPD.
Eight of the 12 recommendations made Wednesday by a jury after the inquest into the 2019 suicide of Const. Nicole Chan were directed to the Vancouver Police Department .
The rest of the recommendations were related to the lack of treatment from a specialized mental health unit at Vancouver General Hospital on the final night of Chan’s life. The VPD should also have a human resource or peer-support case representative assigned to regularly contact each employee suffering from mental health issues and, if permitted by the employee, the employee’s family and-or support circle could also be contacted.
“Supt. Shelley Horne and Insp. Novi Jette, the HR officers, indicated they did not have any education in human resources management while being assigned to that section,” said the jury’s statement. “At one point Insp. Jette and Dr. Mackoff were on the phone together and the phone could have been passed to that doctor, but communications did not occur between them,” said the jury’s statement.
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