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Efficiencies within Police Services (125)

11 and Under Initiative

A 2009 study found Regina children to be behind their Saskatchewan peers in early development. In response, the Regina Police Service developed the 11 and Under Initiative (11UI). 11UI is a...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: children, youth at risk, early intervention, social services, services referrals

Aboriginal Gang Reduction and Exit Strategies

To address the proliferation of Aboriginal gangs in Alberta, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘K’ Division’s Aboriginal Policing Services (APS) implemented a three-year pilot program called...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: Aboriginal, gangs, education, youth, prevention

Aboriginal Outreach Specialist

In response to the over-representation of Aboriginal people as victims of crime, the Victim Services unit of the Alberta Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General initiated the Aboriginal Outreach...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: First Nations, aboriginal, victims of crime, outreach, victim support, victimization

Addressing Over-users of Health/Social and Police Services

Some individuals rely heavily on police, hospital and social services, entering the system over and over again and placing a drain on resources. Since 2009, the Repentigny Police Service has been...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crime prevention, mental health, community

Alberta Crime Reduction Strategy

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘K’ Division launched the Alberta Crime Reduction Strategy in late 2013 to reduce crime and its effects on communities through problem solving, enforcement...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Alberta
Keywords: crime reduction, crime prevention, habitual offenders, prolific offenders, crime hot spots, intelligence-led policing, root causes of crime

Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams

Formed in 2006, Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) is a unique model that brings together, under one umbrella, Alberta's various integrated policing units to strategically disrupt and...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: integrated response, organized crime, integrated team, intelligence

Annual Shift Scheduling Review

In 2013, to optimize operational capacity at detachments and meet the needs of the community, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) initiated a province-wide annual review of detachment shift...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: review, shift, scheduling, collective agreement

Arrest Processing Unit

In April 2010, a Yukon Police Review was launched by the Yukon Department of Justice and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 'M' Division following the December 2008 in-custody death of a detainee...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Yukon Territory
Keywords: correctional, prisoner, medical care, memorandum of understanding

Automated Licence Plate Reader System

In February 2011, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) began piloting the use of automated licence plate readers. This technology uses specialized cameras to identify licence plate...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: traffic, missing persons, technology, license plate reader

Automated Response System and Electronic Ticketing

In January 2012, to improve the triage of its service calls, the Roussillon Inter-municipal Police Service implemented a system whereby service calls are directly routed from callers to police patrol...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: technology, electronic ticketing, e-ticket

Barcode Scanning

The Winnipeg Police Service introduced the barcode scanning initiative in the winter of 2012 to better track equipment when it is loaned out. Barcode scanning increases the accountability of police...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Manitoba
Keywords: tracking, scan, technology, inventory

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: strategic plan, performance measures, oversight, crime prevention, governance, modernization, community engagement, indicators

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

Business Intelligence and Data Integration Program

The Edmonton Police Service's strategic priorities are reducing crime and victimization, developing a community-centered police service and becoming a model of efficiency and effectiveness. To...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: strategic planning, business intelligence, intelligence led-policing, data integration, electronic report

Business Intelligence Tool

To maximize the use of the data collected by police, the Halton Regional Police Service has acquired an automated system to mine police data. This new business intelligence tool will mine data from...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: performance measurement, technology, data, business intelligence

Charging Fees for Police Services

The Sûreté du Québec provides select policing services that incur significant overtime costs. These services are not included in regulations governing the services that municipal police services and...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: cost recovery

Citizen Online Reporting

Police agencies across Canada and the United States have adopted services whereby citizens can report non-emergency offences online. In the fall of 2012, the Winnipeg Police Service introduced its...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Manitoba
Keywords: technology, online reporting

Civilian Data Entry

To free up police officers for frontline work, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is using civilian staff to enter administrative data into electronic reports. Police officers dictate occurrence...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: electronic report, civilianization, data entry, dictation, technology

Civilianization

Since 2004, the Saint-Eustache Police Service has civilianized certain positions.

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: civilianization

Civilianization

The Sûreté du Québec has launched an initiative to assign civilians to non-core policing functions wherever possible (e.g., photo radar duties), allowing officers to concentrate on frontline police...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: civilianization

Civilianization and Crime Reduction

In 2007, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘J’ Division piloted a Civilianization and Crime Reduction initiative to respond to increasing property crimes and the need more efficient policing. The...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: intelligence led-policing, crime prevention, civilianization, youth, data, services referrals, crime analyst

Collaboration and Efficiency Opportunities within Emergency Services

The Ottawa Police Service is collaborating with the four branches of Emergency and Protective Services in Ottawa to develop an Emergency Service Efficiency Roadmap. This initiative was launched in...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: collaboration, road map, emergency services, integrated services

Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit - NL

In place since September 2013, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit — Newfoundland and Labrador (CFSEU–NL) is a new policing model established by the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador to...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Newfoundland and Labrador
Keywords: intelligence led-policing, organized crime, integrated team

Community Action Team

The Community Action Team (CAT) was first deployed in 2011, in response to ongoing community safety concerns and the need to disrupt the precursors of crime in distressed communities through...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: community action, crime prevention, outreach, mobile response

Community Health Intervention Program

Approximately 70% of police calls in Delta relate to mental health, consuming significant police resources. There is increasing pressure for police to deal with issues of mental health, but most...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: intervention, mental health, community safety

Community Mobilization Prince Albert

Community Mobilization Prince Albert (CMPA), also referred to as the “Hub,” is a multi-agency team focused on crime prevention. CMPA integrates the activities of various community agencies, including...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: integrated services, integrated response, hub, team, crime prevention, community safety, partnership, crime reduction

Community Orientation and Cultural Awareness

Understanding a community is key to delivering the services it requires. This is not always easy for officers who have not been exposed to the Northern way of life, culture, traditions and languages...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Northwest Territories
Keywords: First Nations, community orientation, cultural awareness, North, isolated and remote communities, Aboriginal

Community Safety Constable Program

Among the new policing models being developed by the Vancouver Police Department is the Community Safety Constable Program. The program creates a new tier of special constables to take on low-risk...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: community constable, special constable, peace officer

Community Safety Model

The Peel Regional Police Community Safety Model, in development since 2006, became fully operational in January 2014. The police service works collaboratively with community partners and key...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: community safety, crime prevention, partnership, gestion du risque

Community Support Program

The Community Support Program is a group of civilian community support officers (four officers and one supervisor) who walk the beat and patrol three Business Improvement Districts in the centre of...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: community safety, crime prevention, street activity, neighbourhood, bylaw enforcement

Cooperation with School Board Concerning Simple Drug Possession

Dealing with simple drug possession cases in schools can be a drain on police resources. Since 2002, the Repentigny Police Service has saved resources by having high schools in Repentigny deal...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: youth, drugs, school

Cost Recovery Initiative for Policing at ‘For-Profit’ Events

Repentigny police presence and services were being provided for free at for-profit events. This led to high police overtime costs. Since 2007, in a cost-recovery initiative, the Repentigny Police...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: cost recovery, commercialization, service fees

Court Document Coordinator (Civilianization)

To ensure a more effective use of resources, the Fredericton Police Force has changed the model for serving a summons or subpoena, including eliminating the position of Summons Server. In the new...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: civilianization, court documents, summons

Creation of Department of Public Safety

The City of Fredericton implemented a new organizational structure in 2012, which included the creation of a new Department of Public Safety. This umbrella department houses the Fredericton Police...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: restructuring, service delivery, efficiency, organizational structure, change management

Crime Reduction and Prevention Strategy

In 2009, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘L’ Division ran a pilot project that used preventative policing to reduce property crime and address impaired driving issues. ‘L’ Division is now...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Prince Edward Island
Keywords: preventative policing, intelligence-led policing, crime prevention, crime reduction, impaired driving, mental health, addiction, property crime

Crime Reduction Rollout

Royal Canadian Mounted Police ‘E’ Division’s crime reduction strategy began in 2005 and has since expanded to every detachment in British Columbia (BC). Each detachment now has a crime reduction...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System, Police Interaction with Individuals Living with Mental Illness
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: crime reduction, crime prevention, habitual offenders, prolific offenders, crime hot spots, intelligence-led policing, root causes of crime

Criminal Intelligence Database and Analysis

To support intelligence analysis and align with the 2009–2011 Edmonton Police Service Strategic Plan objective to “become a model of efficiency and effectiveness,” the police service’s Intelligence...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: crime analysis, business intelligence, intelligence-led policing, effective policing, data

Criminal Investigative Division File Process Review

To improve efficiency within its Criminal Investigative Division (CID), the Fredericton Police Force adopted a redundancy measure in February 2011: a monthly “file review” of investigative files...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: review, records management, information management

Crisis Intervention Response Patrol Officers

It is estimated that the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) responds to more than 33,000 service calls per year (about 100 calls per day) regarding individuals dealing with a serious...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Police Interaction with Individuals Living with Mental Illness
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crisis situation, emergency response, mental health, training

Critical Incident Response Team

For over 10 years, Charlottetown Police Services, together with Summerside Police Services, has had a partnership agreement with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘L’ Division, through a...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Prince Edward Island
Keywords: emergency response, shared services, memorandum of understanding, training, partnership, critical incident

Department of Justice (Drug Courts) Disclosure Pilot Project

The Department of Justice (Drug Courts) Disclosure Pilot Project was launched in 2004 to address issues with the timeliness of the drug evidence disclosure process, which was not meeting the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Ontario
Keywords: court documents, drug trafficking, disclosure

Direct Entry Report Making Process

To streamline the process of generating reports, the Halton Regional Police Service is using a voice dictation system for the preparation of police reports to be submitted to the police service...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: technology, voice dictation, electronic report

Doing Things Better

In 2007, the Service de police de la Ville de Québec (SPVQ) adopted an initiative called “Doing Things Better” to improve various practices and processes. This initiative includes the following...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: human resources, management, technology, training, processes

'E' Division Headquarters Relocation and Efficiency Review

In January 2013, Royal Canadian Mounted Police ‘E’ Division consolidated approximately 2700 employees from 25 separate locations throughout metro Vancouver, relocating them to one site in Surrey...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: efficiency, service delivery, organizational reform, cost reduction

Electronic Evidence Disclosure

The Toronto Police Service was concerned about the rising cost of meeting evidence disclosure requirements. Significant resources are required, including officer time, paper for photocopying, and the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Ontario
Keywords: electronic disclosure, court documents, Crown

Electronic Ticketing Program

In 2012, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) issued roughly 49,000 traffic tickets, all of which RCMP officers and Ministry of Justice employees had to process by hand. To reduce the time and...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: traffic ticket, electronic ticketing, technology

Electronic Ticketing System

In 2009, the Lévis Police Service piloted a program to issue and process tickets electronically. This initiative, which uses an electronic database and electronic instruments to issue tickets, was...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: technology, electronic ticketing, e-ticket

Electronic Ticketing System

In a gradual rollout beginning in 2007, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) traffic division has replaced its paper-based ticketing system with an electronic ticketing system. The...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Quebec
Keywords: electronic ticketing, technology, e-ticket

Emergency Response Team

Charlottetown Police Services has a partnership agreement with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘L’ Division, through a memorandum of understanding, to share two Charlottetown Police Services...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Prince Edward Island
Keywords: integrated services, shared services, memorandum of understanding, training, partnership, emergency response

Federal Re-engineering

The Federal Re-engineering initiative was launched in 2011 as the result of a “current state” assessment of the federal policing program. Federal Re-engineering aims to redesign the federal policing...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: review, organizational reform, service delivery, information sharing

First Nations Cadet Corps

The First Nations Cadet Corps is a crime prevention program that provides safe alternatives to First Nations youth. This community-led initiative, in place since 2006, is an integral part of the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: First Nations, youth, crime prevention, community involvement, Cadet Corps, recruitment, Aboriginal

Forensic Identification Assistant

Forensic Identification Assistants (FIAs) are civilians who collect fingerprints, photographic evidence and DNA evidence at most property crime scenes, and do some laboratory work to analyze crime...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: civilian, forensic investigation, crime scene, civilianization

Fredericton Police Force / St. Mary's First Nation Partnership

St. Mary’s First Nation, located within the city of Fredericton, has been served by the Fredericton Police Force (FPF) for over 30 years through a contemporary community policing model. In 2000, to...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: community policing, First Nations

Fredericton Police Force Improvement & Innovation Initiatives

As part of the City of Fredericton’s Improvement and Innovation (I&I) process, the Fredericton Police Force (FPF) has embraced Lean Six Sigma, a managerial approach that eliminates waste and...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: efficiency, innovation

Funding for Automated Licence Plate Readers by Manitoba Public Insurance for Manitoba Police Agencies

Automatic licence plate readers scan vehicle plates to verify licence plate information. This allows police to find out if a vehicle is stolen, unregistered, or driven by a suspended or disqualified...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Manitoba
Keywords: license plate readers, technology

Future of Policing Advisory Committee

Under the Future of Policing Project (FPP), the Ministry has been working with the Future of Policing Advisory Committee (FPAC), other ministries and affected stakeholders to plan for effective...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: advisory committee, future of policing, core policing, service delivery, cost recovery, legislation

General Occurrence Reader Unit

In May 2011, the York Regional Police (YRP) established the General Occurrence (GO) Reader Unit to improve the quality of information going from police investigators to the Crown Attorney’s Office...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Ontario
Keywords: records management, Crown folders, disclosure, quality assurance, court documents

Geographical Firearms Profile Reporting

Among the functions of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) is the production of Geographical Firearms Profile (GFP) reports. GFP reports provide Canadian law...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: intelligence-led policing, firearms

Halifax Regional Municipality Crime Reduction Strategy

Launched in 2007 by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘H’ Division, the Halifax Regional Municipality Crime Reduction Strategy uses evidence-based analysis to focus and maximize the use of...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Nova Scotia
Keywords: crime reduction, intelligence-led policing, crime mapping, crime prevention, prolific offenders

Incident Report Centre

In 2008, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) introduced the Incident Report Centre, a call centre for incident reporting. Since 2012, for certain offences where there is no suspect...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: incident reporting, call centre, civilianization

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

Integrated Criminal Intelligence Service

Criminal Intelligence Service Prince Edward Island (CISPEI) is a provincial crime intelligence bureau comprised of police officers, analysts and support staff from Royal Canadian Mounted Police ‘L’...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Prince Edward Island
Keywords: intelligence-led policing, partnership, data, organized crime, criminal intelligence, intelligence sharing

Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams

Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (INSETs), led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), are multi-agency teams made up of specially trained members of the RCMP and other law...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: integrated units, national security, intelligence-led policing

Integration

For ten years, the Nelson Police Department and Nelson Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Detachment have integrated and shared a number of services, including a detention facility; a BAC...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: shared services, integrated services, cost sharing

Intelligence-Led Policing

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary implemented intelligence-led policing in 2011 as a business model and managerial philosophy. Intelligence-led policing uses data and crime intelligence to support...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Newfoundland and Labrador
Keywords: intelligence-led policing, business model, proactive, organizational change, evidence-based crime prevention, domestic violence, education, training, organized crime

Inuit Perceptions

Inuit Perceptions is a one-day cultural awareness seminar that orients Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers to the unique perspectives of Inuit culture. Supported by "V" Division, each...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Nunavut
Keywords: Inuit, training, cross-cultural, Aboriginal, community

Investigation Management and Approval Centre

In October 2010, in response to growing demands for public accountability, effectiveness and efficiency, the Edmonton Police Service implemented its Investigation Management and Approval Centre...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Alberta
Keywords: system management, accountability, disclosure, information management

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

Labrador Relief Team

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘B’ Division set up the Labrador Relief Team in 2009 to provide relief to Labrador’s four remote two-officer detachments. The Labrador Relief Team began as a...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Newfoundland and Labrador
Keywords: remote detachment, personnel, service delivery, member safety, staffing, human resources, isolated and remote communities

Law Enforcement Framework

To modernize policing in Alberta, the provincial government developed the Law Enforcement Framework (LEF) in 2010. LEF lays the foundation for the vision for policing in Alberta. It outlines...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: framework, modern law enforcement, modernization, intelligence-led, performance indicators, community safety, community input, police costs, accountability

LEAN

As part of its commitment to continuous improvement, the Winnipeg Police Service is implementing LEAN business practices. LEAN practices streamline processes and eliminate waste to keep costs low...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Manitoba
Keywords: business principles, management, LEAN

Major Case Management: Integrating Practice & Technology Software: X-FIRE—Agnovi Corporation

Core policing duties, such as the investigation of both small- and large-scale crime, consume significant resources. To improve efficiency and keep pace with current standards for case management...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Manitoba
Keywords: technology, major case management

Marihuana Grow Initiative

Launched in 2011, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Marihuana Grow Initiative (MGI) is a response to the growing problems associated with the production, trafficking, export and domestic...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: marijuana, drug enforcement, intelligence, drug trafficking, partnership

Misprescription and Overprescription of Controlled Prescription Drugs

Since early 2012, the Moose Jaw Police Service has been working closely with a Pharmacist Investigator from the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons to reduce the abuse of prescription...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: drug abuse, drugs, prescription, crime prevention, crime reduction

Multi-Disciplinary Support Team

To address rising concerns from a number of municipal agencies within the Taber community regarding the handling of individual clients, the Taber Police Service took the lead role in organizing the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: intervention, crisis, domestic violence, team, drug abuse, services referrals

Municipal Bylaw Enforcement / Community Peace Officer Program

Since the mid-1980s, the Medicine Hat Police Service has employed community peace officers to enforce bylaws and assist with policing. As community needs have grown over time, the police service has...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: community constable, community safety, bylaw enforcement, peace officers

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 Policing—Measuring Police Performance

In 2008, Waterloo Regional Police Service set up the Neighbourhood Policing model to measure police performance. This model uses performance measures to design equitable police patrol zones based on...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: performance measurement, calls for service, patrol zones, indicators, neighbourhood policing, community safety

North East Nova Crime Reduction Strategy

The North East Nova Crime Reduction Strategy uses intelligence-led policing to reduce crime in the North East Nova District. Civilian criminal intelligence analysts pull information from police...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Nova Scotia
Keywords: intelligence-led policing, crime reduction, crime prevention, prolific offenders, traffic

Online (Internet) Reporting

To address concerns regarding the efficient use of police services and the timeliness and convenience of client service, York Regional Police established a tool for online (Internet) reporting in...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: online reporting, CopLogic, technology

Online Criminal Record Checks

The Winnipeg Police Service established an online criminal record check initiative in October 2011 to allow citizens to submit criminal record checks applications electronically online. Online...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Manitoba
Keywords: technology, online reporting, criminal record check

Online Property Auctions

The Toronto Police Service’s Property and Evidence Management Unit was experiencing critical storage constraints and increasing costs for storage and management. In response, the unit set up online...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: technology, property auction

Online Reporting

In operation since 2013, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) online reporting service allows citizens to file police reports online for certain offences against property, such as...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: online reporting, technology

Operational Review

The Vancouver Police Department is an organization of 2,000 people with a budget of $200 million. Under-resourced and dealing with the impact of an economic downturn, the department underwent an...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: review, resource, civilianization, overtime, patrol deployment

Outstanding Warrants

Warrants are issued in cases where an individual does not appear in court as required, or does not pay a fine by a specified due date as required by a provincial statute or municipal bylaw. Despite...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Alberta
Keywords: outstanding warrants

Patrols in Parks and on Cycling Trails

Since 2006, the Blainville Police Service has used police cadets to patrol the Blainville municipality’s green spaces and its network of cycling trails.

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crime prevention, civilianization, cadet, park, patrol

Police Analytics—Business Intelligence

In 2013, Halton Regional Police Service implemented Business Intelligence for Public Safety software—an analytic tool that mines data collected through the computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system and...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Police Interaction with Individuals Living with Mental Illness
Province: Ontario
Keywords: business intelligence, intelligence-led policing, data integration, electronic report, strategic planning

Police Services Organizational Reform

In 2001, Quebec’s Ministry of Public Security (Ministère de la Sécurité Publique) led an important organizational reform of the policing structure in the province. The Ministry has made many...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: review, organizational reform, levels of service

Priority Prolific Offender Program

To address the problem of repeat offenders, the Alberta Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General launched the Priority Prolific Offender Program (PPOP) in 2008. PPOP is a focused and integrated...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: offender management, community safety, bail, courts, probation, rehabilitation, prolific offenders

Property Disposal Initiative

The Toronto Police Service has implemented a property disposal initiative to reduce its inventory of items seized in relation to judicial proceedings and investigations. Toronto Police Service...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: technology, property disposal

Proposed Lethbridge Collision Reporting Centre

The Lethbridge Regional Police Service has introduced a one-year pilot project to outsource vehicle collision reporting involving property damage to a private company. Police services are mandated by...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Alberta
Keywords: accidents, collision reporting, client service

Provincial Collision Reporting Centre

In 2012, Charlottetown Police Services put forward a proposal for the Province of Prince Edward Island to contract collision reporting to a private company. Other police services across Canada, most...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Prince Edward Island
Keywords: collision reporting centre, accidents, car

Public Online Reporting

In 2011, the Halton Regional Police Service introduced an online system to facilitate public online reporting, the self-reporting of certain incidents by the public without direct police involvement...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: online reporting, CopLogic, technology

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

Rationalized Integration

The Saanich Police Department plans to work with the Victoria Police Department to implement an integrated approach to computer forensic analysis. With rationalized integration, the two departments...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: forensic analysis, technology, integration, cost sharing

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

Regional Domestic Violence Unit

The Saanich Police Department participates in a Regional Domestic Violence Unit that takes a multidisciplinary approach to high-risk domestic violence situations across the Capital Regional District...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: partnership, domestic violence, integrated unit, regional unit

Regional Integrated Intelligence Units

Regional Integrated Intelligence Units (RIIUs) are integrated intelligence-led policing units that bring together members of the law enforcement community throughout the province to share information...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: integrated services, intelligence-led policing, organized crime, crime prevention

Replacement of Police Cars with More Ecologically Friendly Vehicles

In an effort to reduce fuel and purchase costs for vehicles, in 2011, the Sûreté du Québec began to replace its unmarked police cars with more ecologically friendly vehicles. Six-cylinder vehicles...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: vehicle replacement, eco-friendly, cost reduction, cars, fuel efficiency

Review of Integrated Units

In 2012, the New Westminster Police Department conducted a review of its participation in integrated units. The review looked at the value for money of participating in these units and whether a...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: review, integrated unit

Road Safety Campaign

Since 2006, the Blainville Police Service has run an annual road safety campaign to encourage safer driving. This campaign is based on data from Quebec’s provincial public automobile insurance agency...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: accidents, road safety, information campaign, prevention

Safer, Stronger Communities Initiative

The Safer, Stronger Communities Initiative uses a multidisciplinary team to tackle crime and enhance community safety in public housing areas. This initiative is a coordinated response to crime...

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

Search and Rescue Coordinator Position

Coordinating search and rescue (SAR) operations is challenging in the Northwest Territories because of the vast territory, extreme weather conditions and high police turnover. Royal Canadian Mounted...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Northwest Territories
Keywords: coordinator, search and rescue, training

Service Initiative: Value and Innovation

In 2011, the Ottawa Police Service initiated its Service Initiative, an organization-wide review of how policing services are delivered to the community. The catalyst for this initiative was the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: community, review, policing model, sustainable policing

Service Standards Investigative Guides

Developed in 2006, Royal Canadian Mounted Police ‘E’ Division’s Service Standards Investigative Guides ensure compliance with approved investigative standards and provide practical advice at all...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: oversight, investigation

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

Sharing Resources Among Police Services

The Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Police Service has found innovative ways to save costs by sharing its resources with other police services for a fee. Rather than pay user fees for time at a firing...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: resource sharing

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

Special Needs Registry

In late 2013, the Taber Police Service created the Special Needs Registry, a program designed to allow parents/guardians to voluntarily register an individual with the police, identifying him or her...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Police Interaction with Individuals Living with Mental Illness
Province: Alberta
Keywords: Special needs, registry, crisis situation, emergency response, mental health

Strategic Policing Partnership—Resource Review

In response to the rising cost of policing and the need to ensure value for money and effective use of resources, the Yukon Department of Justice and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘M’ Division...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Yukon Territory
Keywords: review, resources, value for money, cost containment, alternative service delivery models, isolated and remote communities

Stratified Model for Accountability, Response and Targeting, Tactical Action Group

In an effort to provide smarter and more efficient policing, the Port Moody Police Department began an internal information-sharing initiative in September 2012. The initiative uses police statistics...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: British Columbia
Keywords: crime analysis, community safety, intelligence-led policing, team, management

Synthetic Drug Initiative

Launched in 2009 in response to growing problems associated with the production, trafficking, export and domestic demand for illicit synthetic drugs, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: organized crime, drug enforcement, drug trafficking, partnership, intelligence

Tactical Troop

For over 10 years, Charlottetown Police Services has had a partnership agreement with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘L’ Division, through a memorandum of understanding, to share four to five...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Prince Edward Island
Keywords: shared services, memorandum of understanding, training, riot squad, partnership

Tech Crime Initiative

Technology-related crimes are increasingly prominent. In an effort to address these types of crimes more efficiently, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 'J' Division in New Brunswick has led the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: technological crime, crime analyst

Technology Assisted Training Initiative—E-learning and Virtual Classroom Platforms

As part of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Technology Assisted Training Initiative, the Ontario Provincial Police Academy is using E-learning and video conferencing technology to offer training...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Ontario
Keywords: technology, training, e-learning, virtual classroom

TeleStaff Schedule

To improve work force planning and scheduling processes, the York Regional Police will implement the TeleStaff schedule system, a single-point system for the scheduling of officers, civilians and...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Ontario
Keywords: administration, technology

The Ontario Major Case Management System

Ontario is the first province to implement standardized investigative practices and supporting technology for major case investigations. In 1997, the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Ontario
Keywords: major case management, serial crime, software, technology, multidisciplinary

Tiered Response Activation Agreement

In October 2012, the Ottawa Police, Fire and Paramedic services signed the Tiered Response Activation Agreement. The agreement sets out guiding principles to ensure that the right emergency services...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Ontario
Keywords: tiered response, emergency services

Toronto Child and Youth Advocacy Centre

The Toronto Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (CYAC) is a multi-agency partnership that brings together professionals with expertise in law enforcement, child protection, health and mental health...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Ontario
Keywords: youth, child protection, mental health, partnership, child exploitation, youth, victimization

Transcription Unit

Units and detachments often do not have sufficient support staff in place to transcribe the large number of statements required for investigations, disclosure and court. Royal Canadian Mounted Police...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: transcription, civilianization, support staff, administration

Unmanned Aerial Systems Project

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ‘F’ Division developed the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) project as a cost-effective solution to the need for aerial photographs for a variety of situations...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Saskatchewan
Keywords: technology, aerial photography, technology, crime scene, emergency

Urban Brigade

In 2009, the Urban Brigade was established within an operational initiative which sought to provide a management framework for festive events and crowd control, while improving efficiency in the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crowd control, protests, event management, riot

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: community engagement, mental health, substance abuse, integrated team, crime prevention

Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System Policy

The Winnipeg Police Service implemented a new Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) policy in an effort to increase compliance with the ViCLAS system across the police service. ViCLAS is a...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Manitoba
Keywords: online reporting, database, criminal intelligence, violent crime, intelligence-led policing, electronic report

Youth Intervention and Diversion Program

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Crime Reduction Unit in ‘J’ Division implemented the Youth Intervention and Diversion Program (YIDP) in 2009. YIDP is an evidence-based program designed to...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: New Brunswick
Keywords: crime prevention, youth at risk, evidence-based policing, social services, intervention, services referrals
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