Gil Puder was a decorated 16-year veteran of the Vancouver Police Department, who served in Patrol and Investigative assignments, the Emergency Response Team, and as an instructor at the British Columbia Police Academy. He also designed programs and taught use of force at the Justice Institute of British Columbia and Vancouver's Langara College, published regularly on related topics, performed research for the Hon. Mr. Justice W.T. Oppal's Commission of Inquiry, Policing in British Columbia.
Gil Puder died of cancer in November 1999, shortly after completing this chapter.
| By: Patrick Basham, Martin Buechi, Ueli Minder, Patricia Erickson, Eugene Oscapella, Gil Puder, Robin Room, Daniel Savas, Jeffrey Singer and Richard Stevenson