What Happens to a Complaint?

During normal business hours, complaints are assigned to an officer based on the location of the problem.
If you call after hours or on weekends, your complaint will be forwarded to an on-call Officer who will start the complaint follow-up process, and if not resolved by the next business day, will assign it to the regular Officer.
The Officer reviews your complaint to understand the problem and decides if they need to call you back for more information. We aim to respond to all call-back requests within one business day.
If we do not have the authority to deal with your complaint, we refer you to the correct organization. For example, we refer complaints about ship emissions to Port Metro Vancouver and complaints about noise to your municipality.
If we are the responsible authority, the Officer may visit the site to gather more information and assess the seriousness of the situation.