It’s Pride week in New Westminster and even the police department is getting in the spirit.
All week the New Westminster Police Department will be sporting custom-made shoulder flashes to show its support for the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The flashes were designed in-house and produced by the same company that makes the department’s regular flashes, according to Sgt. Jeff Scott.
Colourful salute: New West police officers are supporting Pride by wearing these colourful patches. Photograph By CONTRIBUTED
“During New West Pride Week, we’re celebrating the diversity of our community and the (department’s) continued dedication to equality, dignity, and respect for all. The police are the people, and the people are the police – this is one of the ways that we can show our unity with our community,” he wrote in an email to the Record.
Last year, local police officers wore Pride-themed epaulettes, which they’d borrowed from Delta
Police, during the Pride street festival.
New West Pride Week runs until Saturday, Aug. 18 with the annual Pride street festival on Columbia Street.
