“When she got there, she said Dave told her that he needed to feel close to her and that they needed to have sex,” Horne told the inquest. Horne did not explain the contents of the video at the inquest.Ĭhan was distressed about the recording and went to Van Patten's apartment in New Westminster to talk to him about it, Horne testified. She said Chan told her that Van Patten had taken a screen recording of another member's phone and threatened to send the video to Chan's husband.
Horne said Chan raised concerns about being “manipulated or coerced” into having sex with him and about how her file was being handled by the department's human resources section, where Van Patten worked. She said she interviewed Chan about the complaints she had made against Van Patten. Horne said in her testimony that she met Nicole Chan in October 2017, when she worked in the sex crimes unit. “She really wanted to get back to work and get healthy again, into a mental state where she could go back to work,” Chan told the inquest Monday. “I might be paraphrasing but in my mind I thought an officer was blackmailing her to have sex with her basically, and I knew that the officer was in HR,” she said.Ĭhan said her sister Nicole struggled with anxiety and depression after she complained to the police chief in 2017 about inappropriate relationships that she had with two senior officers. David Van Patten, culminating in her suicide. Jennifer Chan told the inquest earlier Monday that her sister's mental health problems stemmed from sexual assault and extortion by her co-worker, Sgt. The inquest heard that Chan was arrested and brought to the hospital under the Mental Health Act. “She (thought that) if it was a member of the public that he had done this to that he would have lost his job.” “She was frustrated because she felt that it was unfair that she wasn't able to work and Dave Van Patten was able to keep his job,” Horne said. Shelley Horne told a coroner's inquest Monday that she spoke to Chan at Vancouver General Hospital the day before she died. Nicole Chan before her suicide said Chan was angry about the treatment of her complaint that a co-worker was extorting her for sex. One of the last members of the Vancouver Police Department to see Const.
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