MLA: Kash Heed - Vancouver-Fraserview

Lord Jesus, we lift up MLA: Kash Heed as he represents the people of Vancouver-Fraserview. We pray he will sense Your love and encouragement each day as he serves the people of this province in the capacity of elected official. Your word says in Isaiah 55 that our thoughts are not  Your thoughts and our ways are not Your ways. We pray he would have Your thoughts and know Your ways as he makes decisions concerning his constituents and the people of British Columbia. We pray Your blessings upon him, his wife and young daughter. Amen.

Kash Heed was appointed Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General on June 10, 2009.

Minister Heed was elected MLA for Vancouver-Fraserview in the 2009 general provincial election.

Kash graduated from the B.C. Police Academy in 1979 and has spent the past 30 years serving the public in law enforcement.

Kash began his career as an officer with the Vancouver Police Department where he moved through the ranks of Constable, Detective, Sergeant, Inspector and Superintendent. During this same time, he completed his BA and MA at Simon Fraser University part-time.

While Superintendent in charge of the south part of Vancouver, and as an Inspector in the southeast quadrant of Vancouver he created the Gang Violence Task Force.

Heed was also head of the drug squad, led the Indo-Canadian gang task force and launched the COMPSTAT system, using computer technology to track crime.

In 2007, Kash was appointed Chief of the West Vancouver Police Department.

Kash lives in Richmond with his wife and new daughter.