[2] The force has around one hundred members; Dave Jansen has been Chief Constable since June 2020.

[4][5] Other residents were temporarily deputized when needed; by the 1880s, as the number of constables increased, badges and uniforms were introduced and patrol routes and a budget instituted; the budget was reduced after a fire destroyed much of the city in 1898.

[4][6] On January 21, 2009, three off-duty police officers were arrested and detained overnight after being alleged to have racially abused, assaulted and participated in a robbery in downtown Vancouver against Firoz (Phil) Khan, a newspaper deliveryman.

On January 26, 2009, the Vancouver Police Department recommended to Crown Counsel for criminal charges to be laid against NWPS member Jeffrey Roger Klassen for assault and possession of stolen property and the WVPD officer Griffin Gillan for robbery.

[8] Constable Jeffrey Klassen was conditionally discharged from the NWPD and sentenced to 1 year probation and 100 hours of community service after being found guilty of assault in April 2011.