The Victoria Police Department welcomed its first-ever female chief constable on Thursday.

At a formal ceremony at Government House in Victoria, Fiona Wilson took command from outgoing-chief Del Manak, who headed the department for almost 10 years.

Before taking over as Victoria’s top cop, Wilson was interim chief at the Vancouver Police Department.

She served more than two and a half decades with the VPD, where she started with roles including patrolling the Downtown Eastside and as an investigator in the Sex Crimes Unit, before moving on to a variety of leadership roles including promotion to deputy chief in 2021.

On Thursday, Wilson said that while she is new to Victoria, she feels that parts of the city are a microcosm of Vancouver, and that she would apply some of the same princ

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