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community engagement (21)

Association for Safer Cape Breton Communities

The Cape Breton Regional Police Service, in partnership with Cape Breton University, has established the Association for Safer Cape Breton Communities, a 52-member group headed by a Cape Breton...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Nova Scotia
Keywords: community partnership, neighbourhood, community engagement, youth, community programs, community safety, crime reduction

BC Policing and Community Safety Plan

The British Columbia Ministry of Justice’s BC Policing and Community Safety Plan (BCPCSP) seeks to set the direction, strategic framework, performance expectations and accountability mechanisms for...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: indicators, strategic plan, performance measures, oversight, crime prevention, governance, modernization, community engagement

Building Partnerships to Reduce Crime

In 2012, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice implemented a strategy called Building Partnerships to Reduce Crime (BPRC). The strategy encourages police, government officials and community-based...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: private sector, crime prevention, community engagement, community safety, partnership

Community Constable Program

A Community Constable (CC) is an armed, uniformed peace officer at the rank of Special Constable member. Their primary focus is engaging their communities in active crime prevention/reduction...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Manitoba
Keywords: isolated and remote communities, community safety, Aboriginal, crime prevention, crime reduction, community engagement

Community Officers

Since 2007, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal has employed civilian community officers in nine community police stations, to improve community safety and ease the burden on police.

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: community safety, community officers, community engagement, civilianization

Domestic Violence Action Team

The Lethbridge Domestic Violence Action Team (DVAT) is a group of community agencies in Lethbridge that work together to address issues of domestic violence through collaborative practice, public...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: victimization, domestic violence, community engagement, crime prevention

Information Sharing via Social Media Programs

An innovative initiative in its early days is the Springhill Police Service’s use of social media to share information with the community. This initiative is quite promising as it requires minimal...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Nova Scotia
Keywords: social media, community engagement

Justice Policing Priorities

In 2011–12, the Northwest Territories Department of Justice created a justice policing priorities initiative to engage both the local community and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Northwest Territories
Keywords: community engagement, partnership, accountability

Neighborhood Crime Mapping

The Edmonton Police Service developed the Neighbourhood Crime Mapping online tool in 2009 to provide timely, relevant data on crime at the neighbourhood level. On the Neighbourhood Crime Mapping...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: crime mapping, community engagement, technology, crime data, crime prevention

Neighbourhood Action Team

The Fredericton Police Force’s five-year plan (created in 2006) identified the need to restructure its approach to community policing. On that basis, and after further studies by internal and...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: neighbourhood, community safety, community policing, community engagement, team, crime prevention

Nunavut Liquor Act Review Task Force

The Nunavut Government established the Nunavut Liquor Act Review Task Force in April 2010 to make recommendations for modernizing Nunavut’s legislation governing the sale of liquor. The illegal sale...

Pillars: Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Nunavut
Keywords: legislation, task force, community engagement, crime reduction

Police Officer Assigned to Seniors

The Repentigny Police Service has witnessed an increase in incidents involving senior citizens. In 2009–10, there was a 30% increase in cases involving seniors. In response to this trend, the...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: seniors, senior citizens, community engagement

Positive Ticketing Program

As part of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Youth Strategy, the Positive Ticketing Program was introduced in 2010 to reward youth by issuing “positive tickets” for positive behaviour. Youth are...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: positive ticketing, youth, community engagement

Public Safety Office

Following the 2008 release of the Halifax Mayor’s Roundtable Report, "Violence and Public Safety in the Halifax Regional Municipality," the Halifax Regional Police put the Public Safety Office in...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Nova Scotia
Keywords: crime prevention, community engagement, public safety, partnership

Regina Children’s Justice Centre

The Regina Children’s Justice Centre (RCJC) is an integrated partnership made up of members of the Regina Police Service and the Ministry of Social Services. The members of the RCJC are part of a...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: partnership, youth, child exploitation, child abuse, social services, community engagement, victimization

Sexual Violence Action Committee

In an effort to enhance public awareness and knowledge of sexual violence, the Lethbridge Regional Police Service established the Sexual Violence Action Committee (SVAC) in 2004. SVAC is a standing...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Alberta
Keywords: sexual violence, community engagement, crime prevention

Social Media Pilot Project

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 'F' Division in Saskatchewan launched a one-year social media pilot project in 2012 to use social media in a non-investigative role as a communications...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: social media, community engagement, media relations

Taber Community Action and Prevention Society

In 2006, after an influx of cocaine dealers in the Taber community and increased incidence of addiction and accompanying crime, the Taber Police Service took the lead in organizing the Taber...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: community partnership, community engagement, drug crime, youth

Victoria Integrated Community Outreach Team

The Victoria Police Department established the Victoria Integrated Community Outreach Team (VICOT) in 2007 to provide intensive support to individuals living with persistent mental illness who face...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: integrated team, crime prevention, community engagement, mental health, substance abuse

Youth for Change and Inclusion

Over the last nine years, the Victoria Police Department has run the Youth for Change and Inclusion (YCI) program which brings together youth from a variety of ethnic, racial, religious and cultural...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: youth, crime prevention, community engagement, education, diversity

Youth in Policing Initiative

In 2006, in an effort to improve the relationship between the police service and the community, build relationships and decrease gang recruitment, the Toronto Police Service introduced the Youth in...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: youth employment, crime prevention, youth police relations, community engagement
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