SO WHAT’S NEXT FOR VANCOUVER POLICE CHIEF JIM CHU?

Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu Photo by Chandra Bodalia
Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu
Photo by Chandra Bodalia

(Part of interview with Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu)

 

VOICE: What are your plans after you retire?

 

CHU: I don’t have any plans today.

 

VOICE: No politics?

 

CHU: (Laughs) I won’t rule anything out, but you know when people ask me, I didn’t try to find my next job while I was still serving as Police Chief. So now that I am announcing I’m retiring, I better start looking. But … I am happy about people asking me what I am doing because as I said like I made sure I wasn’t kind of lobbying to get some favour from one organization or another. … I’ve had some conversations with different people. It sounds like there’s opportunities out there and pretty soon I’ll have to make up my mind.

 

VOICE: The opportunities are political or policing or what?

 

CHU: I’ve had conversations with people about other police jobs, running for political office and the private sector. So, interesting conversations and in a few months I will have to make up my mind what I am going to do next.

 

– BY RATTAN MALL