The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has been incorporating the threat of vehicle attacks in its security planning for large scale public events. "We do have heavy vehicle barriers that we have used recently, as part of our planning and preparations and execution of our operations plans for large crowd events," said VPD Sgt. Vancouver officials use heavy vehicles like city dump trucks to block key entry points during large-scale public events, such as the Celebration of Light fireworks display. (David Horemans/CBC)Andrea Arnot, the executive director of the Vancouver Pride Society, is responsible for another massive event that draws similar numbers of people the city's West End — the Pride Parade. She remembers feeling a heightened awareness of safety issues at public events after that.

Source: CBC News April 25, 2018 01:18 UTC