Deputy Chief Constable Warren Lemcke

In April 2010, Superintendent Lemcke was promoted to the rank of Deputy in command of the Investigation Division. Previous to that he was assigned as Superintendent to Operations North Division, where he led all uniform functions and community responses in the north region of Vancouver.

Past assignments included the Inspector in charge of Patrol District One and Inspector in charge of the Beat Enforcement Team, as well as Inspector in charge of the Vancouver Police Department Facilities Section.

He has worked in all four districts as a patrol constable and sergeant, spent several years as a Traffic Enforcement constable, and walked the Granville Beat. He has working in community policing and was the coordinator for the Department’s Community Policing Centre Program. He was also assigned as an investigator in the Internal Investigation Section.

Deputy Lemcke is designated as a Public Order Commander, receiving training in this field in the United Kingdom.

Deputy Chief Constable Lemcke has a certificate in Administrative Management and has completed numerous other courses, including the Major Case Management course, the Incident Command Systems 100-200-300 courses, and he is one of only a few Canadian police officers to complete the NYPD Internal Investigators course.