Critical Incident Response Team (Details)

Name of province/ territory:

Prince Edward Island

City/ Region:

Charlottetown

Description of Initiative:

Charlottetown Police Services (CPS), together with Summerside Police Services, has a partnership agreement with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘L’ Division, through a memorandum of understanding, to share three Charlottetown Police Services members with the provincial ‘L’ Division Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT).

Initiative Key Objectives:

Currently, two CPS members form part of the divisional CIRT team. This team resource responds to critical incidents where a negotiator presence in required. The agreement provides for training and deployment of resources, provides costs savings in terms of training/deployment and provides a resource that, from an RCMP perspective, is not subject to transfer.

Section Responsible for Implementation:

Criminal Operations

Key Contact:

Paul Smith
psmith@charlottetown.ca

Groups/ Agencies/ Key Partners Involved:

• other police services

Level of Involvement (consultative - information sharing) and/or cooperative - direct involvement):

Agencies have a signed a memorandum of agreement.

Amount of Time Initiative has been in Place:

Since 2002.

Reason for Undertaking the Initiative:

Economic/fiscal, plus the initiative has a definite operational benefit as well.

Resources Required to Implement this Initiative:

Sharing such a resource provides opportunities to train together, increase capacity and possibly reduce costs in deployment situations.

Method of Implementation:

N/A

Key Outcomes of the Initiative:

Trained resources are available to all agencies. Reduced costs have been realized which are associated with training and equipment. Having a shared resource also helps in terms of shared costs.

Availability of a Communication Strategy:

No

Key Messages used to Publicize the Initiative:

N/A

Forms of Evaluation by which the Initiative will be Assessed:

• N/A

Evaluation Completed or Community Feedback Received:

No

Summary of the Outcomes:

No community feedback has been received; however internal feedback from policing contacts has been positive.

Summary of the Performance Measure Data Collected:

N/A

Economics of Policing Pillars:

• Efficiencies within Police Services
• New Models of Community Safety

Further Details:

N/A

Additional Comments or Suggestions:

N/A

Record Entry Date:

2013-08-01