Vancouver police responses to deaths of young Indigenous women, girl under investigations

Independent policing office reviewing investigations into all 3 cases, CBC News has learned.
WARNING: This story discusses violence against Indigenous women and girls and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone who has.
Years after the bodies of two young Indigenous women and an Indigenous girl were separately discovered across Metro Vancouver in disturbing circumstances, investigations into how the Vancouver Police Department handled the three cases have been launched, CBC News has learned.
During the spring of 2022, the bodies of 14-year-old Noelle O’Soup, 24-year-old Chelsea Poorman and 20-year-old Tatyanna Harrison were discovered within weeks of each other. A Vancouver police officer is facing a misconduct investigation in connection with O’Soup’s death. An investigation into the VPD’s handling of Poorman’s case was announced in January.
Now, the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner (OPCC), the civilian, independent office that oversees complaints into police forces in B.C., has launched a third and separate investigation into the handling of Harrison’s case. Harrison’s body was found on a yacht in a dry dock in Richmond in May 2022, though her body wasn’t identified until August of that year.
Tatyanna’s mother, Natasha Harrison, raised concerns about the handling of her daughter’s case, including a 20-day delay in launching a search as the file passed between jurisdictions. “I understand there has been public reporting of concerns respecting police response to the missing persons report involving Tatyanna Harrison,” the OPCC’s Andrea Spindler said in a statement.
“While I am unable to go into details with the specifics of this case due to confidentiality provisions, the Commissioner has determined it to be in the public interest to confirm that we initiated an investigation into the Vancouver Police Department’s handling of this missing persons investigation.”
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Source: cbc.ca/news/canada/british columbia