Vancouver police say they seized greater than 170 weapons from a senior’s residence in South Granville whereas conducting a wellness verify final week.
Officers, together with employees from Vancouver Coastal Well being, went to a house close to West fifteenth Avenue and Granville Avenue to verify on a 76-year-old man on the request of his physician as a part of Automobile 87, a program that pairs a plainclothes police officer with a registered or psychiatric nurse to do on-site assessments throughout psychological well being crises.
Police say the person has dementia and bodily well being points.
A lot of the 174 firearms discovered within the residence have been classic and from the Second World Conflict.
“The weapons have been all seized as they weren’t saved safely,” mentioned Const. Tania Visintin with the Vancouver Police Division in an announcement.
The person was taken to hospital to be seen by a psychiatric skilled, she mentioned.
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—@FionaWilsonVPD
