Kara Triance
Kara Triance is a retired police executive leader with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. At the rank of Superintendent, Kara Triance was the Officer in Charge (Chief of Police) of the Kelowna/Central Okanagan RCMP, proudly serving as the first female commander. When Kara retired, Kelowna was the largest RCMP detachment in Canada and one of the busiest in B.C.
Starting her career in 2000 in Richmond, B.C., Supt. Triance served in all four districts of the BC RCMP. Some of her notable achievements include work and invaluable learnings in Indigenous communities, engaging in cross border marine law enforcement projects, and building high performance teams who lead in crime reduction strategies with a modernized and trauma informed approach to policing. She was a strong voice provincially on ‘Repeat Offenders’ and nationally on ‘Bail Reform’, dedicated to community safety, while leading a team of 450 police professionals who drove down crime rates and changed community satisfaction in policing in the Central Okanagan.
As a dedicated police leader, Supt. Triance has served on the executive board of the BCACP, co-chaired the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and was an advisory board member of the BC Women in Law Enforcement. Kara has been described as a respectful disruptor, speaking authentically in times of immense challenge. She is committed to excellence in policing, strong police leadership development, and she proudly served as an operational police leader in detachments of all sizes and communities, rural and urban.
Beyond her professional achievements, Kara is a mother, a partner to an educator, and an engaged community member. When she isn't working, you can find her on mountains and in the water. She serves on the boards of her daughters’ swim club and volunteers with their cross-country ski club. She enjoys swimming, biking, skiing, and knitting. Together with her husband Chris, they live in adventure - such as the time that they sailed their boat to the Baja of Mexico. Supt. Triance is deeply committed to creating a positive impact through her work and in the communities she serves.
With courage, we enter the arena…
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt