Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022

File: 22-39852

Victoria, BC – Officers are asking for anyone with information to come forward after seizing a homemade “mace” style weapon at a multi-unit temporary housing facility on Sunday.

Officers were attending a multi-unit residential housing facility in the 1900-block of Douglas Street on an unrelated matter when they discovered a large, homemade “mace” style weapon.

Officers seized the weapon. Two images of it are below.

Do you have information about this “mace”? 

If you have information about this weapon please call the VicPD Report Desk at (250) 995-7654 extension 1. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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