Metro Vancouver officers head to Poland, Israel as part of ‘Compassion to Action’ project

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Some prominent Metro Vancouver police officers are heading to Poland and Israel.

It’s part of a trip to counter antisemitism and to make sure the Holocaust is never forgotten.

In all, about 20 police and education staff from across the country are heading out. They include New Westminster Chief Dave Jones and Vancouver Chief Adam Palmer.

“We didn’t know we were invited until we saw the list, we didn’t know who else was on it until we saw it,” Jones explains.

He says this is all part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center‘s “Compassion to Action” project.

“The Simon Wiesenthal Federation tries to keep what happened during the Holocaust present, they want to keep it as a reminder that it doesn’t become forgotten on it,” Jones adds. “They also want to look at it that it doesn’t repeat itself in any other way or how it ties into hate crimes and the treatment of individuals in a horrendous or very negative way.”

He says the idea is to also have an understanding that these are issues that happened over a long period of time.

“I think what they do is they look for people in the public to go,” Jones says. “There’s discussion and presentations along the way that allow you to see what happened, and transpired, and what has occurred since.”

The Simon Weisenthal foundation is an international Jewish human rights organization, named after the late Nazi Hunter.

Jones says the officers will be back in a couple of weeks.

With files from Tim James

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