Sexually assaulted VPD officer targeted by colleague in derogatory group chats
It has been more than five years since a female Vancouver police officer was sexually assaulted by a fellow officer.
We can’t identify her due to a court-ordered publication ban, but she is speaking out after receiving the results of a Police Act investigation.
In 2021, VPD Const. Jagraj Roger Berar was convicted and sentenced to a year in jail for the assault.
Later, the female officer learned a colleague inside the courtroom had sent derogatory text messages about her and her testimony. The texts were then shared in group chats.
“I can tell you where I bawled my eyes eye when they were read to me,” the survivor told Global News.
“I can tell you where I first wrote them down, they were that impactful.”
Now, following an investigation, Sgt. Narinder Dosanjh is deemed to have committed discreditable conduct.
Former New Westminster Police Chief Dave Jansen, who was the discipline authority for the investigation, found the text messages were “not respectful or in any way supportive of a victim … who is also a fellow VPD member … the comments appear to be more supportive of the accused police officer.”
Sgt. Dosanjh, now an officer with Surrey Police Service, is due to get a written reprimand and must do at least eight hours of respectful workplace training.
The survivor called the penalty a joke.
“I think he should have been dismissed,” she said.
In his 18-page report, Jansen also states, “I am familiar with the unfortunate but often pervasive negative view of police officers who report misconduct by other police officers being treated as ‘rats,’ who betrayed their colleagues.”
The survivor left her career with VPD, but continues to work as a police officer for another agency.
Hopefully not Surrey Police Service.
She said she refuses to walk away, “Because it’s a job that I’ve wanted since I was a kid.”
“I refuse to give up my career because I was the victim of a crime,” she added.
If you came to Abbotsford, I think you will find the atmosphere a little more mature.
A police chief was accused of paying $100
to rape a teen — and trying to cover it up
CHARLESTON, W. Va. — The jury had reached a verdict, and the former chief of police still seemed relaxed. He leaned back in his chair. He nodded to his supporters. He was facing up to life in prison, but during the four-day trial, he never looked rattled by the testimony against him.
Clay, the jury learned, was an HVAC tradesman who’d left his family business in his 40s to fulfill a lifelong ambition of becoming a law enforcement officer. He was a sheriff’s deputy in Fayette County, West Virginia, and also served as the police chief in one of its small towns: Gauley Bridge, population 550, a poor community nestled on a picturesque river. Clay was frequently the only man on duty, cruising the town’s hills with a gold badge on his chest.
“In Gauley Bridge,” prosecutors told the jury, “Larry Clay was the law.”
Clay was the law until one day in the fall of 2020, when a teenage girl made a startling report to the sheriff’s department. In the federal courtroom, she would be called by her initials, C.H.
C.H. was also known in Gauley Bridge. The town had watched her barefoot, blissful childhood come to an end when, at 13 years old, she learned the lump on her mother’s collarbone was a fast-growing lung cancer. Within a year, her mom was gone, leaving C.H. with her stepfather. He soon found a new wife, who moved into C.H.’s house.
The new stepmother and C.H. never got along. Shortly after C.H. graduated from high school, the teen left town and the only place she’d ever called home.
A few months later, Clay was stripped of his gold badge, and it wasn’t long before all of Gauley Bridge knew why.
C.H. had reported that her stepmother sold her to be raped for $100 when she was 17 years old. The buyer, she told the sheriff’s department, wasn’t just anyone — it was Police Chief Larry Clay. While he was in uniform and on duty. The first time, against his department-issued vehicle. The second, inside a police office.
Clay, 55, and the stepmother, 27, were both charged with sex trafficking of a minor.
After two hours of deliberation, the jury’s decision was unanimous. The verdict was handed to the clerk, who leaned forward and read it aloud.
“We find defendant Larry Allen Clay Jr. guilty.”
The verdict was read four times. Twice for charges involving sex trafficking. Twice for obstruction of justice.
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