To Serve, Protect, and Respond To IMs

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Scott Jennings| 20 Comments

As seen on mmodig, the Vancouver PD apparently has nothing to do.

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The Vancouver police officers involved in the recruitment on Second Life have their own avatars, or Second Life persona, dressed in a specially designed VPD uniform, badge, belt and radio. They’re also trained in the other-world customs and commands of the virtual society.

These new cyb0rcops are for recruiting hep Web 2.0 peeps into the Vancouver Very Special Forces. Now. But just wait! There’s more!

“It’s going to be interesting when we start to receive crime reports — you know, harassment cases or things like that — in the virtual world,” he says. “How are we going to deal with them?”

Clearly, step 1 in dealing with harassment complaints online: sexy black uniforms.

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  • http://www.damnedvulpine.com J.

    Maybe Linden can subcontract out for them to, you know, do police work, since their own efforts pretty much don’t exist.

  • http://www.onlinegamers.org Rasputin

    Just wait until they try to find out exactly WHOSE giant flying penises attacked the Canadian Prime Minister’s land parcel…

  • http://www.cmdrslack.com CmdrSlack

    Maybe Linden can subcontract out for them to, you know, do police work, since their own efforts pretty much don’t exist.

    Linden won’t ever police its own grid in any publicized way — they rely too heavily on the DMCA’s safe harbor/service provider provisions to do that. It would mean that they’re actually responsible for the content stored on their servers.

  • http://thesongoftheday.com chabuhi

    Hot cops??? Where do I sign???

  • Nicademus

    I’m guessing they’re not wearing body armor.

  • Victor Pellen

    Arrugh, isn’t Second Life dead yet?

  • http://www.w00tradio.net DJ Jester

    Well, Kudos for them for trying to be progressive…..

    In the meantime I”ll keep rolling on the floor laughing at the rediculousness of it all..

  • http://blog.driftlogic.net Scott

    You Americans can police the world, we Canadians have the internets covered.

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  • http://www.beafraid.com Hellfire

    Your continued reporting of these stories just hastens us all to the point where there will simply be NO snarky comment possible.

    This story is the universe making a snarky comment at humanities expense. I am :sadface:

  • http://www.adelecaelia.blogspot.com Adele

    I seriously don’t even know what to say to that. It is very interesting to say the least!

  • DaveN

    Up next: LAPD Alliance Paladins brutalizing a crowd of dancing orcs on a WoW server near you!

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    That’s it, I’m outta here.

  • http://mythicalblog.com Jeff Freeman

    They’re probably just 14 year old girls pretending to be cops.

  • http://www.worldofwarcraft.com Jurrasic

    Being a Vancouverite, where the transit cops hassle working stiffs for their fares while junkies shoot up and pass out on people the next SkyTrain car over, I am not in the least suprised to hear the VPD considers playing MMOGs full of furries yiffing and penii flying to be more important then….y’know….policing.

  • Neep

    They’re probably just 41 year old MEN pretending to be GIRL cops.

    I think you made some typos there, Mr. Freeman, but not to worry, I made it all better.

  • Boanerges

    Duhn-duh-duh-duhn…

    The story you’re about to see is true. The named have not been changed because they were never real to begin with.

    My screen name is Friday. I work with Internet.

  • http://mythicalblog.com Jeff Freeman

    Ah, well… I knew it was something like that. Or this.

  • http://www.tprjones.com TPRJones

    Well, here’s some itneresting news about Second Life and real life legal issues:

    Maker Of Virtual Sex Toys Takes Online Dispute To Federal Court

  • Viz

    This just reinforces my first impression that Vancouver is like San Francisco but with more Asian residents.