Alison Laurin

Superintendent Alison Laurin has been a member of the VPD since 2005. She began her career in uniform working in East Vancouver. She then served as a detective for three years in the Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit, and for four years in the Homicide Unit. Additionally, she worked as an affiant on Project Reality, a major homicide and conspiracy investigation that had significant impacts on organized crime.

Promoted to sergeant in 2016, Superintendent Laurin served in the Professional Standards Section and the Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit where she led numerous successful projects to apprehend sexual offenders. She also worked on several local and provincial committees focusing on the safety of women and children.

In 2020, she was promoted to staff sergeant and was assigned to the Beat Enforcement Team and the Marine Unit. She worked with five beat teams and engaged with numerous community partners. Here she successfully led Project Bankroll, a multi-jurisdictional fentanyl trafficking investigation which resulted in 15 criminal charges and the seizure of $4.7 million in illicit drugs, firearms, and $584,000 in assets from drug traffickers supplying vulnerable residents in the community.

Upon promotion to inspector, she was transferred to the Court and Detention Services Section, where she oversaw the Vancouver Jail and relationships with the courts. In 2021, she was assigned to command of District 2 in the Operations Division, where she was responsible for over 200 frontline officers, and led the roll out of new digital evidence management systems in the District.

She was promoted to superintendent in December 2021 and seconded as a Deputy Chief Officer with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC).

Superintendent Laurin holds a bachelor of science with honours and a master’s degree in resource and environmental management from Simon Fraser University. She is the recipient of two Chief Constable’s Commendations. She enjoys spending time with husband, Mike Laurin, who is currently a staff sergeant at the Real Time Intelligence Centre.