VANCOUVER Police Deputy Chief Howard Chow on Saturday decried the level of violence his officers continue to be exposed to daily.

He said that when officers tried to arrest a suspect on a Downtown Eastside call involving a suspect who had bearsprayed and struck a victim multiple times with a hatchet, one officer was punched and another officer, who is 6-foot tall and weighs 220 lb, was lifted up and bodyslammed to the sidewalk.