Senior VPD officer denies slapping buttocks of female constable

A senior Vancouver police officer denied an allegation Monday that he slapped a female special constable on the buttocks during a police ceremony.
Insp. John de Haas told a public hearing that he did touch the special constable on the right hip during the April 2017 incident, but that it was a “tap” and not a slap, or a spanking, as alleged.
He testified that he approached the complainant, who cannot be named due to a publication ban, at a graduation ceremony for special constables w