Metro Vancouver Transit Police only Canadian police agency known to allow wearing of patch Vancouver police officers are not authorized to wear the controversial thin blue line patch on their uniforms, according to a review by the department that was triggered by a complaint lodged by a citizen offended by the symbol. The patch, which depicts a Canadian flag with a thin blue line running through it, was worn on the uniform of a Vancouver officer at a downtown protest in November 2021. A person subsequently filed a written complaint with the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. “There was...