Index of Policing Initiatives - Search Results
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...
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...
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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