Vancouver – A Vancouver Police officer is recovering after being assaulted Monday morning while responding to a 9-1-1 call in East Vancouver – the 35th time a police officer has been assaulted in Vancouver this year.
The officer, who was taken to hospital by ambulance after the assault, had responded to a 9-1-1 call from a residential building near Clark Drive and East 12th Avenue, where someone was reported to be breaking things and threatening to assault people around 1 a.m.
Officers located the suspect inside the building and took the 33-year-old woman into custody. The assault occurred after the arrest.
The officer was released from hospital and is now recovering at home. The suspect was taken to jail.
Kaitlin Balfour, 33, and has been charged with one count of assaulting a police officer, one count of uttering threats, and one count of breaching the conditions of a release order. She remains in custody.
The 35 assaults against VPD officers so far in 2025 is a 25 per cent increase over the same period last year.
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