Project Trooper, Project Talon, Project Thorne and Project Tent were all major investigations by the drug squad of the Vancouver Police Department. In a statement written on behalf of himself and his partners, Elizabeth Lewis and Karen Molle, Cobb said he believes both the number and severity of Charter violations have increased significantly in recent years. In each case, judges have been reluctant to exclude evidence of serious drug- and weapons-related crimes, but said the gravity of the Charter violations left them with no choice. Mike Porteous led a VPD press conference in 2015 when investigators announced a major drug seizure in Project Trooper. But he points out that some of the Charter violations identified in these four investigations were not known to be Charter violations while the police work was underway.

Source: CBC News April 23, 2019 10:52 UTC