 Good morning everybody. Thank you for coming today. We're here at the very same spot where an unfortunate incident occurred one year yesterday in the Atwood Theatre here at the P&E. I'd like to announce that 15 people have now been charged for mischief in relation to this event at the breakout festival just over a year ago. They've been charged with mischief and that specifically deals with violence to property damage to property. The VPD and and as you will soon learn the community believes in people being held accountable for their actions and right away after this incident the VPD formed a small investigative team. We drew resources from all different three different divisions within our police department and with the sole purpose of investigating this incident and holding the people that were that did the most grievous behavior accountable for their actions. Needless to say there was a lot of video both from within the facility from security video and then a more video from the public. As soon as we put out the response to asking for more video then we received even more video. Our investigators analyzed the video and like I said they from this video they were able to get a very good appreciation for who did what during this event and they focused on the people that were the most heinous in their behavior. We didn't go after everybody and from there they we simply put out still images of people's faces and then asked for the public to advise us who did what and to provide names. While our investigators deserve a lot of credit for this what I'd really like to mention is it was truly a community effort. The community deserves a big shout out because without their assistance on this we wouldn't have been able to identify anybody and once we received tips and we received numerous tips over 300 tips for people identifying the people for what they did. We wrote Crown Council reports and forwarded these reports to our provincial crown and ultimately 15 charges were approved and that's why we stand here today. Of the people that were responsible for this the age range is from 15 to 22 they're all young men all but three of them were from surrounding municipalities and in the province here three of them from Vancouver and I want to make it clear while people these men these young men made bad decisions that night we do believe and as a community and the police department do believe that people should be held accountable for these bad decisions and if these bad decisions account or include a criminal record if they're if they're criminally charged and then that's so be it. I'd like to mention though that the P&E has always been a safe family-friendly fun environment and it will continue to do so. I want to thank Laura Balance and her team with the P&E it was a great partnership working with them. I'd also like to thank the RCMP they were very assistist quite a bit particularly because we had to go outside of the city of Vancouver to get these people and hold them accountable. Laura Balance. Thanks everyone on behalf of the P&E I just want to say our deep and heartfelt gratitude to Inspector Wheatman members of his team and the entire Vancouver Police Department for their focus and diligence in bringing these charges forward and on behalf of the P&E we are very grateful we are a 113 year old institution in this province we are a place where families come and have wonderful safe experiences throughout the year this was an isolated incident but we are very grateful that the partnership and the relationship with the Vancouver Police Department continues to be incredibly strong and we are very pleased with the results of this announcement today and grateful to that strong working relationship and the focus and diligence that VPD applied to this investigation. Can you talk a little bit more about the people that have been charged here because obviously there are minors involved here. Can you talk a little bit about how many will be tried as adults versus how many will be charged as children? Yeah so I don't want to get into the details of how many are youths and how many are adults and I certainly don't want to name anybody at this point but suffice to say is some of them were youths and still are youths that means under 18 years old the age was 15 to 22 and from really all over the province three of them being in Vancouver no not at this point just I want to protect the the idea that some of these people are youths still no they most likely they come to Vancouver. So a combination of both so initially we had the security video from the venue and then we also do a canvas around the area as well so for example up on to Redford Street and then then our people at the department they mined social media right away they start they started mining it like the very next day and there was quite a bit already posted and then they continue to keep tabs on any kind of videos that are going to come in so right right away we have hours many hours of video and then very quickly we come out with an announcement work doing an investigation and if anybody has video more video that they've obtained to please send it to us that's the benefit nowadays is we can we can create a drop box and people can send it right to us and so we had more video from that and this is all a cell phone handheld video and then from there it's a relatively simple matter of them and but I say simple but it takes many hours going through the video and identifying people and identifying what they did so a quick example like we had people they would take a can of pop for example well we decided very early on we weren't going to pursue those kind of offenses we're just going to pursue the offenses that were more serious and so we identify the people that do the more serious things create still images their faces and then again relatively simple nowadays we send the images out and then we create again a drop box that people can send their tips in yeah so yeah and so there was a number of venues that were set up or chaos and the so the people that destroyed the chaos where it was that was a would be a good example of that and just to clarify these charges is that everyone that will now be charged yes some of them do and some of them don't Dr. How challenging was it to get this investigation to this point it was just required diligence that's one thing the VPD is very good at is when something like this happens we're able to draw resources from not just the major crime section but other sections within the police department so in this investigation and I mentioned already all three divisions that's invest and and operations provided a person or two and we formed a small team and and we went from there okay