Meet Sergeant Angela Van Eerd
Angela is the Sergeant in charge of VicPD’s Esquimalt Division and the Victoria City Police Union’s first female president.
With 17 years of crime-fighting under her belt, she started off her journey with the Vancouver Police Department in 2007 before transferring to Victoria in 2018. Angela and her partner, Fiona, who is also a police officer, decided to swap the hustle for island life and chase a better work-life balance.
Throughout her career, Angela has seen a consistent rise in the presence of women in policing, and says women offer a diverse perspective to policing.
Each day Angela wakes up, she feels proud to put on her uniform and to represent her community, calling it one of the most honourable professions, “The people we get to meet and the people we work with and the community we get to help makes this job one of the best there is.”
Angela joined the Victoria City Police Union executive as Secretary in 2021; that marked the first time since 1946 that a female had been on the union executive, and she now leads that union.
“Having that female role to represent our policing community within VicPD was super important and I took that experience into my presidential role.”
For Angela, the most rewarding part of policing is in the camaraderie of the team environment.
"I believe that women in policing can challenge those traditional stereotypes and foster more inclusivity to the policing role in the police department which can better represent the community in which we serve"
“I grew up playing team sports so this was a very natural progression for me because you join the job and you’re on a platoon or on a squad and those are your teammates. And even though you may work in a car by yourself at times, for the most part you’re working with a partner; you’re working with 8 to 12 or 20 other people that you can rely on and you have leaders you can look up to; one of the most exciting parts of the job is working in the team environment.”
