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Derek Cooke is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer. In the winter of 2014 Cook applied and was accepted for a position as the lone RCMP representative on Operation Proteus, a Canadian Armed Forces mission that is working with the United States Security Coordinator (USSC) in Jerusalem.
He is the former in Langley, British Columbia and was the head of the RCMP detachment in the township. In 2007, he was an Inspector in Vancouver. In January 2011, after becoming a Superintendent in Langley, Cooke called Rick Green, who was Langley's mayor at the time, to inform him that there was investigation into Green's conduct being undertaken by Commercial Crime; Green later denied having received the phone call from Cooke. That September, Cooke drove an unmarked car during a patrol leading up to the annual Cruise-In auto show before which it is tradition to perform multiple burnouts in public. The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) filed a complaint against Cooke that November regarding his involvement in an investigation into the death of Alvin Wright, who had been shot to death by an RCMP officer the year before. Cooke had issued a press release a day after Vancouver Police Department had completed a review of the event, but the RCMP took the press release down from their website within a few hours and the BCCLA claimed that Cooke was wrong to have released information about the event to the public. The following month, he announced that charges of sexual interference and sexual assault had been laid against a 57-year-old female teacher in School District 35 Langley. In May 2013, he said that he was very concerned about new laws in Langley restricting cannabis cultivation to commercial areas; he said that, because the cultivation of medical cannabis in residential areas was legal before the passing of the laws, there were instantaneously 26,000 illegal cannabis-growing operations in the township. Cooke believes that the RCMP should not perform the function of road traffic control to cater to events in support of for-profit corporations unless the municipal government has coordinated or is in support of the event.
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