Vancouver police investigating the Stanley Cup riot are serving local media with warrants in "another move to secure evidence."
The VPD announced Wednesday that CTV, Global TV, CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Province and The Vancouver Sun are being asked to hand over footage.
"This is an important step in the investigation to ensure all images are collected and rioters held accountable," Les Yeo, commander of the integrated riot investigation team, said in a statement.
Police say they're on track to deliver 40 charges against people involved in the riot, but all of those people were either arrested during the mayhem or turned themselves in.
Yeo says the charges will be recommended to Crown by Oct. 31, with as many as 500 more to follow.
All of the people who are expected to face charges were either arrested during the riot on June 15, or turned themselves in to authorities afterwards.
In a media scrum Wednesday afternoon, Yeo defended the amount of time it's taken for criminal charges to be forwarded.
"This is probably one of the largest investigations of its kind in Canadian history. It isn't like CSI where it takes an hour for everything to be wrapped up," Yeo told reporters.
Several team members are currently in Indianapolis with forensic analysts from the UK and North America in an effort to process more than 1,600 hours of video evidence collected since the Stanley Cup riot on June 15.
It is expected the members will return from the trip with hundreds of images of suspected rioters that will need identifying.
Those pictures will be added to the VPD's website, Riot 2011.
Yeo said the fact someone has turned themselves in to police doesn't mean it's the end of the investigation.
"That's why we're in Indianapolis processing all of the video to ensure they haven't done something else. It's very easy for someone to confess to something small but when we look at the video we could find they've done something else," he said.
