B.C. orders inquiry into police handling of Pickton case

An internal police report found that the lives of several women could have been saved if police had acted sooner.

B.C. Attorney-General Mike De Jong has announced a public inquiry into why police failed to catch Canada’s worst serial killer until he had murdered upwards of 25 women. De Jong made the announcement yesterday at the first meeting of the cabinet following the release of a damning Vancouver Police report that said Robert Pickton was linked to murders as early as 1998. He wasn’t apprehended until 2002. The inquiry will cover both the VPD and the RCMP, who were hampered by jurisdictional squabbles over the case because the women Pickton killed disappeared from Vancouver, but were killed outside the city on his Port Coquitlam farm.