Stolen Lives (2007 - 34mins)

This high impact video deals with the highly dangerous and destructive criminal act of stealing cars. RCMP officer Tim Shields explains the vast majority of car thieves are drug addicts. They steal cars and trucks so that they can commit other crimes in order to raise cash to buy more drugs. All too many times, death ensues.

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Scathed (2007 - 27mins)

Crystal Meth has roared across the globe, leaving in its wake wrecked lives, broken dreams and death. Its use has cost millions in policing and health expenditures.
Scathed looks at the problem through the eyes of the current and recovering users and their families, health-care workers and police. The documentary dramatically shows that using crystal meth is not a game.
Scathed is suitable for high school studnets, their parents, educators, and anyone interested in understanding the seductive lure of illicit drugs.

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Through a Blue Lens (1999 - 52mins)

Odd Squad's landmark video project about the lives of half a dozen drug addicts scratching out a hellish existence in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. 'Through a Blue Lens' has proven to be the NFB's most successful video in their 65+ year history. The trials and tribulations of these drug addicted film subjects were captured and released to the viewing public to worldwide acclaim. The film delivers a simple but powerful message regarding the perils about drug abuse. The film humanizes the addicts but it also portrays the police officers chronicling the life on the mean streets of Vancouver's Skid Road as caring and compassionate people.

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Not a Game (2007 - 11mins)

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Flipping the World (2000 - 30mins)

Based on the popular video 'Through a Blue Lens', this video was made for junior high students who are seeking the ugly truth about where drugs can lead. A hand-picked group of students are lead through a weekend of self-discovery by two Odd Squad officers as they meet drug addicts who give them the skinny on drugs. The students' attitudes change dramatically when faced with the realities of drug addiction, given from the horse's mouth.

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Jesus the Bookie Music Video (2006 - 5mins)

Jamie Perry (of Bocehpus King) lip syncs his way through the drug-riddled Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. 'Jesus the Bookie' is Perry's hard-hitting tribute to the work of the Odd Squad, whose film footage, like Vaseline on a boxers' face, is slathered over the music video as Perry himself and sidekick Aaron Chapman sing and dance in the lanes and of the roof tops of Canada's poorest neighborhood. Perry indeed floats like a butterfly but sings (poetically) like Ali.

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Nitro: Guardian of the Night (2006 - 13mins)

For the past seven years, Vancouver Police Constable Howard Rutter has worked with a very loyal partner, Police Service Dog (Badge #9755) Nitro. A bond existed between the two partners built on mutual trust and respect, and the knowledge that they would always look out for one another. It was a bond so strong and lasting that only death could break it. "He was not only my partner, he was my best friend," Cst. Rutter points out. Sadly, on the night of January 23, 2006, Nitro died in the line of duty, doing what he always did best, catching the bad guy.

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The Police Foundation's 30th Anniversary (2006 - 7mins)

The Vancouver Police Foundation is among the world's oldest, most established police foundations. Since 1976, the Vancouver Police Foundation has sought to foster the vital link between the police and the community they serve, through training programs and public awareness initiatives that would not otherwise be possible within the regular operating budget of the Vancouver Police Department. Through generous donations from the public and the business community, the VPF has built bridges with the community in several innovative ways. In 2006, The Vancouver Police Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary. The work of the VPF is ongoing and its dedicated members continually renew their efforts to increase opportunities for the development that they may better serve and protect our communities each and every day.

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Road to Recovery and the Revolving Door (2004 - 20mins)

This video examines the Vancouver Drug Treatment Court by following "Nicki" as she progresses through the innovative program designed to help treat the drug addiction that drives criminal behavior.

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Rice Wine (2000)

This short documentary was produced to help make regulatory changes to the sale of Chinese cooking wines (38% by volume alcohol). These unregulated products were sold by some immoral proprietors by seedy corner stores of Vancouver Skid Road. A 'Rice Wine User's Group' tried for seven years to ban this cheap greatly abused source of alcohol product from the skids.

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100 Year Anniversary of the Mounted Squad (2006 - 7mins)

The Vancouver Police Mounted Squad celebrate 100 years of service.

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Project Alchemy (2006 - 6mins)

During the dark ages alchemists were medieval chemists that converted base metals into precious ones. Today some of our criminals have found a new way of converting base metals into hard cash.
So it made a lot of sense when VPD (then) Inspector Bob Rolls, Inspector Eric Petit, and (Ret.) Inspector Ken Frail launched this project to call it ALCHEMY. The members involved in this undercover investigation were shocked by what they found. No property was sacred. Nothing was excluded, including memorial plaques and grave stone markers. It was all fair game for our metal thieves. This is a criminal enterprise which is costing Vancouverites millions of dollars, and in some cases needless heartache. Project Alchemy targeted thefts which affect all of us, whether through increased taxes, utility bills, insurance rates, or thefts of our own personal property.
In some cases, when it involves telephone cable or fire suppression equipment, it is also placing us at risk. Theft of metal is taking place in many different forms all across the lower mainland. This includes, for example, the thefts of Telus cable, Viacom and Pattison automated billboards, patio furniture and even gutters from people’s homes. In the recent past these thefts have reached outrageous proportions. Soaring overseas metal prices have contributed to dramatic increase in the price of these metals and have fueled a corresponding increase in these thefts

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Project Haven (2005 - 9mins)

Project Haven was a ten week undercover investigation into criminal activity in three buildings. During the project officers rented rooms using rent cheques provided by the Ministry of Human Resources. The rooms that were rented are often referred to as “single room occupancies” or SRO’s. They included the Astoria Hotel at 769 East Hastings, in Strathcona, the Lucky Lodge at 134 Powell Street in the DTES, and the Gastown Hotel at 110 Water Street in Gastown.

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Project Raven (2004 - 10mins)

Project Raven was an undercover Vancouver Police project directed at licensed premises, pawn shops and convenience stores engaged in criminal activities such as the fencing of stolen property taken in B&Es, Theft from Autos, Shoplifting, and other offenses. These unscrupulous businesses are key players in the money for drugs cycle, which involves the sale of blatantly stolen property by drug addicts to obtain money drugs. This video shows highlights from this innovative undercover project and shows the need for proper business regulation

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Still Life and Death in the Skids (2005 - 4mins)

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On The Beat Music CD (2006 - 50mins)

Featuring music recorded between 1980 and 2006, ON THE BEAT is a unique teaming of the Vancouver Police Dept's documentary filmmakers the Odd Squad, and some of Vancouver's most critically-acclaimed songwriters and musicians. Containing some previously unreleased tracks by these artists, the music features songs that spotlight a world that others might want to look away from and ignore--the hellish lifestyle of the drug addicted residents of the notorious downtown east side in Canada's poorest postal code.

ON THE BEAT - TRACK LISTING

1. Jesus the Bookie - Bocephus King
2. Hastings and Main - The Colorifics
3. Quick Before its Too Late - Paul Hyde
4. Rodeo of Fallen Stars - Swank
5. Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold - Secret V's
6. The Hidden World - Copyright
7. Put Me Through to Yesterday - The Bughouse Five
8. Hastings Street Christmas - Aaron Chapman
9. Tidal Wave - MacKenzie Jones
10. Flips My World - Rick Grant
11. Learn To Say No - Gary Durban
12. Big Town - Daniel Davies
13. Angels in Prison - Wally High & Willie P. Bennet
14. Odd Way - Valdy
15. Hold on (Change is Coming) - The Universal Gospel Choir

* CD includes the bonus video trailer for "Beyond the Blue Lens" that will play on
your computer as a quicktime multi-media file.

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