Community safety project grant recipients
Current community safety project grant recipients
Safer and Vital Communities Grant
The Safer and Vital Communities Grant was launched in 2004 to support a variety of local community safety and well-being projects that focus on addressing local risks to help reduce crime and victimization. It is open to community-based, not-for-profit organizations and First Nations Chiefs and Band Councils with the support of local police and organizations from other sectors.
For 2020-22, Ontario is investing approximately $2.6 million in support of 26 projects across the province.
Safer and Vital Communities Grant recipients
| Organization and program name | Program description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Camp Moshava Project 'Safety Net' |
Project Safety Net will provide a safer physical environment for 300 campers and staff that are under Camp Moshava’s care without their parents for the summer. The project will also strengthen their partnerships with local authority and organizations that do community-based education with regards to race relations. | $109,705 |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario Project Chabad |
This project focuses on enhancing the congregation’s overall safety through security infrastructure upgrades and hate crime response training. Seminars will be delivered for congregates and visitors concentrating on what to do if there is a situation inside the synagogue, and mock intruder situations will be conducted with congregates (York Regional Police will be present) to measure and asses response. | $110,000 |
| Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto Sronger Together |
Funding will help put in place a two-year multi-sectoral initiative to combat an increase in hate-motivated crime against people of Asian descent in Toronto experienced since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto will deliver a series of workshops designed to increase the community’s sense of safety — enabling collective actions, supporting victims and empowering self-protection. The project also seeks to foster greater understanding, trust and collaboration between members of the community and key public institutions, such as the police and the justice system. | $107,725 |
| Coalition of Muslim Women of Kitchener-Waterloo Waterloo Region's Response to Hate Crimes / Hate Incidents |
The Coalition of Muslim Women (CMW) will lead a multi-sectoral partnership designed to address the issue of hate-motivated crime throughout the Waterloo region. Activities offered through the project will focus on establishing a hate crime reporting and documentation system, providing one-on-one support to victims, delivering public education, strengthening community bonds with the police and tackling the growing problem of online hate. Among other key organizations, Waterloo Region Police Service and Community Justice Initiatives will play significant roles along with the CMW in delivering the activities. | $110,000 |
| Council of Agencies Serving South Asians Developing Community-Informed Hate-Crime Reporting Processes in Toronto, Peel, York and Ottawa |
In partnership with Toronto Police, York Region Police, Peel Region Police, and Ottawa Police, the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians will establish a consistent hate crime reporting approach across these four jurisdictions. The project will focus on increasing community awareness on how to identify hate crimes and the safe methods of reporting them. The project also involves training police staff on how to work with racialized communities to report and address hate crimes and build solid relationships with communities. | $110,000 |
| First Farms & Forests Centre for Indigenous Food Sovereignty Indigenous Justice Pathways |
This community-based collaborative project seeks to support at-risk Indigenous youth and vulnerable Indigenous community members who have been, or are at risk of becoming, a victim of hate crime; or have acted criminally as a result of their own trauma, bias and feelings of hate. Through various workshops and activities, participants will develop a greater understanding of the issues surrounding hate and hate crime as it applies to them and their relationships with family, community and society. This project also involves the participation of the Hamilton and Niagara Police Services as well as the John Howard Society. | $110,000 |
| First Russian Congregation of Rodfesolium Ansekiev (the Kiever Synagogue) Kiever Synagogue Security Upgrade |
This project will help fund security upgrades to the synagogue in order to monitor and control access more effectively and securely. | $63,300 |
| Frontline Community Center Stronger, Resilient and Inclusive Communities |
A bi-weekly community workshop to be held for at-risk and minority youths where they can spend an evening with a physical fitness coach who will teach them self-defence, listen to a small talk from a guest lecturer on how they can build self-confidence, and participate in a group discussion on how they can play their part in preventing hate crimes in their communities. | $110,000 |
| Girls Incorporated of Durham “By Me, For Me.” – Youth Lead Community Leadership Planning and Action Program |
Funding will support the creation of a new Youth-Led Community Leadership Planning and Action Team that will bring together vulnerable and marginalized girls/young women with service providers, to co-develop activities and programs that contribute to the prevention of hate crimes in Durham Region. This program will help empower participants to become agents of social change and positively influence and improve their own local communities. | $105,100 |
| Grand Council Treaty #3 Representative Services Treaty #3 Youth Anti-Racism Training |
The Treaty #3 Youth Anti-Racism Training sessions will engage youth in discussions with facilitators, knowledge keepers and Elders on the historical legacy and present context of racism within Treaty #3. These sessions will help equip participants with the knowledge and skills they need to better understand their position within these social issues and effectively respond to acts of racism and hate when facing or witnessing them. Two videos will be created so other youth and families can benefit from the experience. | $85,041 |
| Grace Place Community Resource Centre Grace Place Against Hate Crime |
The goal of Grace Place Against Hate Crime is to make Grace Place a safer place and to prevent hate-motivated crime, improve support for victims of hate crime and bridge the gap between the community and agencies, including the Canadian Mental Health Association and law enforcement. This will be achieved through education and collaboration with community groups from the downtown Brampton Community Hub (Grace Place) and Peel Regional Police. Workshops will be sponsored to improve the community’s awareness of what constitutes a hate-motivated crime and how to report a hate crime. Staff at Grace Place will be trained to direct victims to appropriate support groups. Video surveillance at Grace Place will be increased to discourage hate crimes and to encourage reporting of hate crimes by being able to provide victims with sufficient information to pass on to the police. | $109,978 |
| Guelph Black Heritage Society #ChangeStartsNow - Anti-Racism Educational Tools Summit |
The #ChangeStartsNow initiative is an anti-racism project aimed at preventing and addressing racism in Guelph and Wellington County. Through the development of community resources and tools, members of the community will learn about racism, local Black history and methods to prevent racism and hate crimes. In addition to building a repository of information for the community, the project includes the creation of the first Guelph Black Heritage Society Anti-Racism Summit, planned for the spring of 2021. | $104,900 |
| Heritage Skills Development Centre Scarborough Community Against Hate Crime |
The project is a two-year initiative that aims to prevent and address hate and hate crime in Scarborough East. It is designed to help members of the Black and Asian communities who have increasingly become victims of reported and unreported hate incidents in the area. Through a wide array of activities, including interactive workshops, bi-monthly community forums and the distribution of a Safer Scarborough community booklet, members of these marginalized communities will develop a greater understanding of their rights and receive the counseling they need when facing a hate crime. The project also hopes to achieve greater community safety and inclusiveness. | $108,834 |
| Huronia Restorative Justice Project, also known as The FACE Program The North Simcoe Grass Roots Reconciliation Project |
The FACE program is a grassroots pilot project that supports racial reconciliation by fostering dialogue among students who, gathered in small groups, will listen to each other in an open and respectful manner. By training the “future generation,” the project’s initiators hope to instill tolerance and change in school communities. | $104,409 |
| Jewish Camp Council of Toronto o/a Camp Northland B'nai Brith Necessary Security Improvement for Vulnerable Jewish Camp |
The project will complete significant security upgrades in order to keep over 1,000 children and staff secure and safe while enjoying camp each summer. | $108,443 |
| Jewish Federation of Ottawa Security infrastructure to prevent hate crimes |
The focus of this project is to expand the security infrastructure of the Jewish Community Campus of Ottawa, the hub of Jewish life and services in the national capital region. This expansion will better support the ability to react to an immediate threat, prevent future threats, and provide a safe community space for the hundreds who live, work, study and pray on campus daily. | $104,113 |
| John Howard Society of Ottawa Playing with Hate: Safe Gaming and Anti-hate Gaming |
Using a multi-sectoral approach, this project aims to prevent hate-motivated crimes by challenging racism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and other hateful narratives that are common in online gaming settings. Through the creation of an anti-hate gaming app and virtual reality experience as well as the diffusion of an anti-hate curriculum, youth will receive the knowledge and skills they need to counter hateful narratives in both gaming spaces and real life. | $108,139 |
| John Howard Society of Sarnia Lambton Hate-Motivated Crime Mobile Response Unit |
John Howard Society Sarnia Lambton, Sarnia Lambton Local Immigration Partnership, Lambton Kent District School Board and the Sarnia Police are joining forces to establish a hate-crime mobile response unit. The unit, which will operate on a pilot basis, will be dispatched to assist victims of hate-motivated crimes. Services offered by the unit will include coaching and advice on how to report the crime to law enforcement, counseling and emotional support, and assistance to repair, clean or replace damaged or stolen property. | $103,180 |
| Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre Security Access and Public Announcement System Upgrades |
The project will help fund upgrades to the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre’s security access system, as well as a new public announcement system, to ensure the safety and security for the over 54,000 people of all ages and backgrounds who are welcomed through their doors each year. | $110,000 |
| Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Defining Nishnawbe Aski Nation |
Funding will help create and deliver a speaker series to promote hate crime awareness and education to youth of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation. Through prevention and empowerment strategies, participants, who are marginalized and disproportionately impacted by hate crime, will develop a greater understanding and knowledge of these issues and the impact they have on their lives. Representatives from the NAN Youth Council, NAN Women's Council, NAN Elder Council, Nishnawbe Aski Police Service and Nishnawbe Aski Legal Services Corporation will co-host the speaker series. | $104,500 |
| Overbrook Community Association Youth Engagement for Safety (YES) Project: Fighting discrimination and preventing hate crimes through art |
YES is a comprehensive hate prevention program that works with youth in Overbrook — a diverse community in the Ottawa east end — to increase their awareness about hate crime and its impact on the community at large. Using the power of the spoken word, visual arts and film, participants will explore the meaning of diversity and inclusiveness. They will also learn about reporting mechanisms when witnessing or being the target of a hate crime. | $42,694 |
| Temple Israel Ottawa Temple Israel Security Resilience |
In order to effectively combat race-based hate targeting the Jewish community in general, and Temple Israel specifically, a coherent package of safety and security enhancements to the organization's real property and training of volunteers will be completed. | $96,000 |
| The Hub for Beyond 21 Foundation Hear My Voice |
Hear My Voice is a prevention and awareness program to reduce hate crime against individuals who have a developmental disability. Through a series of activities, participants will learn about hate crime and how to communicate about their own experiences. By the end of the program, participants will be able to develop an active voice to advocate for themselves and against hate crimes in the community. The intent is to also establish a community-wide Day of Awareness that will become an annual event, allowing individuals with a developmental disability to advocate for community change on an ongoing basis. | $84,057 |
| Thunder Bay Multicultural Association Youth in Solidarity Against Racism and Hate |
Youth in Solidarity Against Racism and Hate Project is a community-led multi-sectoral approach to addressing issues of racism and hate in Thunder Bay. The project involves the creation of community forums involving youth to foster dialogue among groups of diverse backgrounds, the development of an anti-racism/anti-hate public awareness and education campaign, and the launch of a community art project. | $109,670 |
| The Neighbourhood Organization Safer Communities |
To help reduce hate motivated crime in Toronto, the Neighbourhood Organization will establish a multi-stakeholder table that will: Hold public forums to hear from the community about their needs and concerns; work with community ambassadors to engage newcomers and minority groups for civic engagement opportunities and peer support; and target hard-to-reach residents who have been involved with the criminal justice system. The table will promote inclusion through the adoption of a diversity charter and collaborate with Toronto’s social, health and education organizations and Toronto Police Service to provide integrated educational services. | $110,000 |
| Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre Harm Reduction and an Indigenous Approach to Insulating the Community from Hate Crime |
The Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre will enhance physical security measures at the Centre, develop an Indigenous Peacekeeper training program, and deliver an Indigenous Competency and Sensitivity workshop. The program will train new Indigenous peacekeepers, provide a security guard certification as well as focus on identifying, witnessing, recording and reporting crimes. The workshop will provide police officers, security personnel, peacekeepers and Indigenous program coordinators with Indigenous cultural competency and sensitivity training as well as insight into Indigenous history, traditions, protocols and dispute resolution. | $104,200 |
Proceeds of Crime Front-line Policing Grant
The Proceeds of Crime Front-line Policing Grant uses funds forfeited to the provincial and federal governments during prosecutions. These funds are made available to police services to fund crime prevention and community safety initiatives.
Ontario is investing more than $6 million over three years (from 2020 to 2023) to support 21 projects across the province that will focus on at least one of the following priorities:
- gun and gang violence
- human trafficking
- sexual violence and harassment
Proceeds of Crime Front-line Policing Grant recipients
| Police service and project name | Project description | Funding amount (over three years) |
|---|---|---|
| Barrie Police Service (BPS) Tell Us – Reducing the Barriers for the Reporting of Sexual Violence |
The new program aims to enhance BPS’ response to survivors of sexual violence. Working collaboratively with its sexual violence agency partners in the community, BPS will develop a third-party reporting centre app where survivors will have the ability to report abuse anonymously. The initiative will also allow for sexual violence investigations to be conducted all under one roof by providing a timely, coordinated approach of services. The program will include the creation of a medical examination room and additional counseling services to support survivors. | $275,000 |
| Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) Helping Alliances with Law Enforcement and Trafficking (HALT Project) |
DRPS will run a full-day annual youth symposium aimed at helping young people identify the signs of human trafficking and stop exploitation before it begins. The funding will also help DRPS add a second crisis intervention counsellor to their anti-human trafficking unit and update the StopHT.com website with the latest information and resources on human trafficking prevention in a way that is appealing to young people. | $300,000 |
| Greater Sudbury Police Service Project Empower |
Project Empower is a multi-agency collaborative approach to helping survivors and potential victims of sexual violence and human trafficking by providing them with the knowledge, tools and supports they need to avoid being abused or to seek help when they need it. The funding will help enhance frontline officers’ training to ensure they are able to use victim-centered techniques when dealing with human trafficking victims and conducting investigations. | $295,334 |
| Greater Sudbury Police Service Project Champion |
Project Champion will help expand the role of the project’s coordinator in an effort to address remaining gaps in sexual assaults investigations and victim support. Tangible outcomes include the provision of enhanced training to frontline officers and the creation of community outreach campaigns and educational videos intended to the public. | $284,189 |
| Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) Hybrid Organized Crime Officer |
Funding will help the NAPS create a new police officer position that will specifically target escalating gun and gang activity as well as drug trafficking. This officer will be the nexus between NAPS communities and law enforcement and social services. | $299,499 |
| OPP Blue Mountain Advancing Victim-Centred Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking Investigations; Central Ontario Region |
This multi-sectoral project will put in place a mobile, interdisciplinary response team made up of police officers, victim advocates, and social services workers that will be tasked to conduct forensics interviews after an incident of sexual violence has been reported and provide adequate supports to the victims. This victim-centered approach aims to minimize trauma and promote wellbeing by bringing services directly to victims rather than having them come to the police. Therapy dogs will also be part of the team to provide additional emotional support. | $300,000 |
| OPP Hawkesbury Engaging Survivors Through Collaboration |
The project will enhance the range of supports and services offered to victims of sexual violence and harassment and encourage them to report abuse. The funding will help OPP Hawkesbury create a new victim advocate position to assist victims from the time they report the abuse through to the entire justice process, set up a new interview space to provide a safe and comfortable environment for victims to report their abuse, provide additional training to police officers and community agency partners so that they are better equipped to interact with victims. | $179,300 |
| Owen Sound Police Service Targeting Human Trafficking through awareness, education and enforcement |
The police services of Owen Sound, Saugeen Shores, West Grey, Hanover and Neyaashiinigmiing are partnering with local community-based agencies to improve the range of support services offered to survivors of human trafficking and to reinforce prosecution of those responsible for sexual exploitation. The initiative includes the delivery of enhanced training to police officers so that they are equipped with the techniques needed to interview victims in a sensitive and compassionate manner. They will also create a targeted education campaign to help raise awareness within the hotel industry to help police identify possible victims. | $315,260 |
| Peterborough Police Service HUTs: An intersection for gangs, guns, drugs, sexual violence and human trafficking |
Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes Police Services will collaborate to address the growing issue of housing unit takeovers in the region. Housing unit takeovers occur when a person or a group of people use drugs, violence, economic supports or other forms of coercion to manipulate tenants into accommodating unwanted occupations of their housing space. The project will include multi-sectoral training with police, housing, and other partners to ensure a shared understanding of what housing unit takeovers look like, how to prevent them, and how to respond once they have happened. The project will also have a public education component. | $253,050 |
| South Simcoe Police Service Taking Aim at Gun and Gang Violence |
The project will help equip South Simcoe Police Service’s frontline officers with the education and training they need to better recognize signs of gang activity and gather the intelligence needed to zero in on crime. In addition, the hiring of professional crime analytics will help enhance the service capacity to gather valuable information on gang members and criminal activity. | $295,278 |
| Thunder Bay Police Service Project Prevent |
Project Prevent aims to stop gang recruitment efforts by reinforcing already-existing activities. The funding will help add more community patrol officers into high-risk neighbourhoods in an effort to further strengthen relationships and deter community members from entering gangs. Working closely with community-based organizations, Thunder Bay Police Service will also launch a pilot project to connect people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with the community services and supports they need. This includes an outreach program specifically focused on improving relationships with the Indigenous community whose youth is at risk of being recruited into gangs. | $300,000 |
| Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) Trauma and Violence-Informed Response to Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence in Northwestern Ontario |
The project is a multi-sectoral partnership between TBPS, the Ontario Provincial Police, Nishnabe-Aski and, Anishinabek Police Services, and other community-based organizations. The goal of this initiative is to improve both the police response and community response to victims of human trafficking and sexual violence by implementing a trauma-centered approach, which takes the victim’s experience into account. The project includes the delivery of trauma and violence-informed training to police officers and community service providers, the creation of a “soft interview room” at TBPS, and the hiring of a part-time victim advocate to help survivors access the social supports they need. | $314,964 |
| Timmins Police Service Collective Action: Taking a coordinated approach to fighting human trafficking in Timmins |
Collective Action is an ambitious step forward into Timmins Police Service’s fight against human trafficking. Trained officers will proactively seek out incidents of human trafficking using different strategies and techniques including covert interactions with potential victims. The project also includes a comprehensive education campaign targeting groups that are more susceptible to becoming victims of human trafficking. These include women in low-income groups, Indigenous and immigrant women, as well as at-risk youth. The campaign will be tailored to provide relevant information about services and resources. | $127,293 |
| Toronto Police Service YourChoice.to – Supporting LGBTQI2S Survivors (lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex2-Spirited) |
Many survivors of sexual violence are reluctant to report instances of abuse. This is even more prevalent in the LGBTQI2S community. In 2018, Toronto Police Service successfully launched YourChoice.to, a multi-faceted program that specifically looked at providing survivors with the resources and tools they need. The funding will help expand and tailor YourChoice.to to the needs of the LGBTQI2S community and develop new resources and supports that will be promoted to other service providers. | $300,000 |
| Toronto Police Service Project Engage |
Through Project Engage, Toronto Police Service will expand its anti-gang prevention strategy. The project will focus on conducting extensive community outreach in 12 of the most gang-impacted neighbourhoods of the City of Toronto. An intervention team will be created to be the primary delivery mechanism for carrying out prevention, intervention, and crime suppression strategies. | $300,000 |
| Treaty Three Police Service Spirit of Hope |
The focus of the Spirit of Hope project is to address the issues of sexual violence, harassment and human trafficking within Treaty 3 communities. It will include a community-based program that contributes to better outcomes for Indigenous women while reducing the incidents of crimes against them. The project will follow a trauma-informed approach that takes into consideration the Indigenous cultural worldview as well as the 231 Calls to Justice outlined in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. | $300,000 |
| Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) Sexual Violence and Harassment Training and Public Awareness Campaign Initiative |
Frontline officers are often the first ones to look after victims of sexual violence. Through the current initiative, WRPS seeks to further train its frontline officers in trauma-informed interview techniques so that they are able to interact with victims in a compassionate and thoughtful way. WRPS will also develop a three-year public education campaign about sexual violence prevention. The campaign will be an opportunity for WRPS to coordinate action with its community partners and to speak from one voice. | $299,067 |
| Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) A Joint Human Trafficking Unit in Waterloo Region and the City of Guelph |
WRPS will partner with Guelph Police Service, other victim services organizations and the local county to create an anti-human trafficking unit to detect, investigate, and prevent human trafficking throughout Waterloo Region and the City of Guelph. The unit will consist of a crisis intervention counsellor and three dedicated fulltime investigators. The unit will respond to human trafficking incidents, offer wrap-around victim support, and conduct investigations to apprehend perpetrators. The funding will also be used for equipment purchases and training of unit members. |
$537,460 |
| Windsor Police Service Guns and Gangs Enforcement and Community Partners to Reduce Youth at Risk |
The project’s goal is to deter youth from choosing a life of violence and entering gangs. To achieve this, Windsor Police Service will focus on three areas: enforcement, providing exit strategies and prevention. The project will first identify recruitment channels, then offer exit strategies to at-risk youth and deliver consistent prevention strategies at the community level. | $300,000 |
| York Regional Police Service Project Uriel – Angel of wisdom and illumination who can help you find inner power |
In partnership with York Region Children’s Aid Society, York Regional Police Service will develop an online reporting tool that social workers will use to report cases of youth they believe are at risk of becoming victims of human trafficking. This innovative tool will modernize the way social workers report vulnerable cases to the police and help reduce delays in starting investigations. The funding will also help build other partnerships to gather critical intelligence, develop essential prevention strategies and provide immediate resources to victims of human trafficking. | $300,000 |
| York Regional Police Project Infantry: Infantry is a military term describing those frontline foot soldiers in combat |
Project Infantry is a new multi-sectoral initiative designed to support the work frontline officers do on a daily basis to combat gun and gang violence. The initiative offers to conduct an in-depth analysis into the causes of the most recent surge in gun and gang violence in York Region. The crucial data and evidence gathered will help inform the development of new training, enforcement and prevention strategies to combat the issue. The initiative includes partnerships with York Region Children’s Aid Society, 360kids and the Toronto Transit Commission as well as the Ministry of the Attorney General. | $300,000 |
Community Safety and Policing Grant
The Community Safety and Policing Grant is a grant program that provides police services with the tools and resources they need to combat crime and keep our communities safe. The grant program provides greater flexibility for initiatives that respond to policing needs and priorities related to safety and well-being and focuses on addressing local and provincial priorities. Projects funded under the current grant cycle of the provincial priorities funding stream focus on targeting gun and gang violence, sexual violence and harassment and/or human trafficking.
Local priority projects
From 2019-22, we are investing approximately $181 million to support 107 projects across Ontario that support local community safety priorities.
| Organization and program name | Program description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Barrie Police Services Board Front Line Response - An Evidence Based Approach |
Through this initiative, Barrie Police Service will partner with academics from Western University to use research to develop an evidence-based police unit with the purpose of deploying frontline officers more effectively, when and where they are needed most. | $723,335 |
| Barrie Police Services Board Crisis Outreach and Support Team |
The Crisis Outreach and Support Team provides crisis intervention to individuals suffering from mental illness and/or emotional disturbances. The team consists of one Barrie police constable and one Canadian Mental Health Association crisis intervention specialist. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to mental illness has proven invaluable in response to the increasing concern of mental illness within the community. | $442,507 |
| Barrie Police Services Board Furthering Our Capabilities to Support Frontline Investigators |
The Technological Crimes Unit supports cyber investigations and extraction and analysis of digital evidence. Grant funding will help maintain this unit’s capability to support frontline investigators and enhance the ability of the Barrie Police Service to effectively investigate cybercrime occurrences. Enhancements will include training and associated equipment purchases required for effective cybercrime investigations. | $661,385 |
| Bradford West Gwillimbury & Innisfil (South Simcoe) Police Services Board Leading the Way: A Contemporary Community Policing Initiative |
The Community Mobilization and Engagement Unit (CMEU) is a pilot program established in 2017 that seeks to increase community safety and well-being, and prevent crime by enhancing community relationships. Funding will help turn CMEU into a fully-operational program. In addition, the Crisis Outreach and Support Team (COAST), a program focused on working with local mental health partner agencies to respond to mental health and crisis calls for service, will be expanded with the addition of a specially-trained police officer. Both programs will also be enhanced to increase the focus on youth at risk and addressing opioid abuse in the community. | $720,000 |
| Brighton Police Services Board Connect and Protect for the Safety of Vulnerable Individuals |
The OPP will assist the MedicAlert Connect Protect service, which allows vulnerable persons and caregivers to voluntarily submit vital information to a database to assist police when a person goes missing. The service gives police 24/7 direct access to a subscriber’s information, including a recent photograph, wandering history (if any) and behaviours to help officers with personal interactions. | $78,750 |
| City of Kawartha Lakes Police Services Board Community Response Unit and Improved Mental Health Response and Awareness |
The City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service will expand its Community Response Unit (CRU) and build on its existing partnership with the Ross Memorial Hospital Mental Health Unit. The CRU team provides proactive support and intervention to individuals suffering from mental illness and who have had previous interactions with police. The Kawartha Lakes Police Service will also use Health IM software to improve data collection, track changes in the mental health of high-risk individuals over time, increase efficiencies between police and hospital emergency staff and provide an improved level of service for uniform officers responding to mental health calls. | $292,500 |
| Cobourg Police Services Board Enhancement and support program for mobile mental health engagement and response team |
This funding will enhance collaboration with the central east Local Health Integration Network and Northumberland Hills Hospital to effectively, and proactively interact, support and refer community members that are in a mental health crisis for appropriate treatment and to care providers. Funding will also support opportunities to educate the community and purchase equipment. | $360,000 |
| Durham Regional Police Services Board Durham Connect - a Situation Table to Assist and Support Individuals and Families Experiencing Acutely Elevated Risk |
Durham Connect is a community-based “Situation Table” comprised of 40 agencies that manage high risk situations involving members of our community who are in crisis. Funding will support dedicated resources from Durham Regional Police Service to identify, prepare and/or bringing situations forward to the table. | $418,062 |
| Durham Regional Police Services Board School Liaison Officer Program |
Grant funding will support the School Liaison Officer Program to promote education and awareness of current issues to elementary and high school students on topics such as youth and law, bullying, cyber bullying, drugs, harmful substances and internet safety. The officers serve as the primary police response to criminal complaints within the Region’s schools and work with the school board to make decisions that are in the best interest of the youth while ensuring the safety of the schools and the community. These officers also develop, coordinate and attend numerous community-based events and initiatives that target at-risk populations such as youth and seniors. | $1,944,515 |
| Durham Regional Police Services Board Improving Police Support of Victims/Survivors of Domestic Violence |
The Domestic Violence Investigative Unit conducts thorough domestic violence investigations, consults, establishes and maintains positive working relationships with community agencies providing information and support to victims of domestic violence. | $2,613,138 |
| Durham Regional Police Services Board Durham Region Vision Zero Roadway safety through enforcement and education |
Grant funding will support public education and traffic enforcement, reducing the loss of life and injuries on Durham Region roadways. In addition to enforcement efforts, Durham police will work with 42 community partners including MADD, Heads Up! Durham, Durham District and Durham Catholic school boards, Lakeridge Health Oshawa, local fire services, Ministry of Transportation, cycling coalitions and Durham Road Watch committees to increase education. | $2,432,854 |
| Hamilton Police Services Board Case Preparation Unit |
The Case Preparation Unit (CPU) helps to eliminate the task of Crown brief preparation from frontline patrol officers, expediting officers’ return to their primary role of combating violence and increasing public safety. The CPU completes all Crown briefs for the local Crown attorneys on behalf of patrol officers. This allows for approximately 600 extra hours of officer time redeployed back into the community. | $3,151,020 |
| Hamilton Police Services Board Crisis Response Branch |
The Hamilton Police Service, in collaboration with St. Joseph’s Healthcare, has developed a coordinated strategy to assist vulnerable individuals, including people experiencing a mental health crisis. The enhancement and restructuring of the Crisis Response Branch will allow the Hamilton Police Service and its partners to address and respond to complex mental health issues in the community and deliver the highest quality of service under one unified command. | $2,272,788 |
| Nottawasaga Police Services Board Mental Health Support Team/Social Navigator - Stronger Together |
The Nottawasaga OPP’s Community Mobilization and Engagement Unit addresses priorities affecting the community. Funding will support Stronger Together by providing a mental health support team and social navigator to help the unit implement local strategies to address mental health and youth issues. | $236,250 |
| Orillia Police Services Board Mental Health Response Unit |
The OPP Orillia detachment’s Mental Health Response Unit (MHRU) engages individuals, families and support systems in response to identified mental health related issues. Funding will support the deployment of an OPP constable to the MHRU. The MHRU will also explore further partnerships with mental health stakeholders. | $225,000 |
| Penetanguishene Police Services Board; Midland Police Services Board (joint) North Simcoe Crisis Management and Response Team (NSCMART) |
Funding will be used to hire a police officer to participate on the NSCMART. The goal is to reach at-risk individuals prior to them reaching crisis stage, ensuring proactive involvement by police and health care professionals. The officer will coordinate with mental service providers and community organizations and conduct an evaluation of the program. | $157,500 |
| Peterborough Community Police Services Board Special Victims Unit |
The Special Victims Unit will focus on investigating crimes related to human trafficking, child exploitation, elder abuse, domestic violence as well as sexual violence and harassment. Staffed with a dedicated team, the unit’s goal will be to improve case management and ensure a better coordination of support services to victims. The team will also engage in enhanced awareness and prevention strategies with the community. | $1,158,750 |
| Port Hope Police Services Board Continued Community Engagement and Introduction of Managing Choices, Changes and Challenges programs to Youth in Port Hope |
The Community Engagement Unit’s school program currently geared to Grade 6 students will be expanded to include Grades 8, 10 and 12 students. The education and awareness program will focus on issues affecting teenagers and youth such as sexting, phone applications, human trafficking, drugs, mental health, party safety, as well as the justice system and the impacts youth might face as adults if they have a criminal record. | $202,500 |
| Regional Municipality of Halton Police Services Board Regional Community Mobilization Bureau (RCMB) |
The Halton Regional Police Services (HRPS) addresses service delivery through the four pillars of Incident Response, Risk Mitigation, Crime Prevention and Social Development. The RCMB is the substantive unit in the HRPS for coordinating community engagement and mobilizing partnerships. While the RCMB officers support community policing and crime initiatives, their main focus is to engage and mobilize the community as it pertains to priority populations. | $5,769,523 |
| Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board Linking Police and Community in the 21st Century |
The Niagara Region Police Service is developing a Real Time Operations Centre (RTOC) to modernize the delivery of police services in the Niagara Region, including new technologies that advance and support its public safety mandate. The RTOC will be a tactical, intelligence driven hub to support and coordinate front-line and investigative resources. The RTOC will assist in deploying officers efficiently and effectively to meet the needs of the community. A civilian media relations specialist position will be created within the RTOC to leverage social media platforms for better public message delivery and real-time information and incident reporting. | $2,525,825 |
| Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board Opioid Education and Enforcement Unit Opioid Education and Enforcement Unit |
In collaboration with community partners, the Niagara Regional Police Opioid Enforcement and Education Unit (OEEU) will better equip first responders to deal with the dangers of opioid handling and exposure. The OEEU works with the Niagara Health System and various community groups that help people with addiction issues. | $785,532 |
| Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board People in Crisis - Public Safety, Community Policing and the Efficient Use of Front-line Resources |
This initiative will create a modern strategy for dealing with people in crisis. This will involve the use of mobile crisis rapid response team officers paired with mental health workers and the implementation of software to assist in analysing the number of and trends in people in crisis in the region. This initiative will increase outreach and support to Niagara citizens in crisis, help the Niagara Region Police Service to work more closely with its community partners, reduce the number of apprehensions, interrupt the cycle of crisis and reduce officer hours spent at the hospital. | $958,893 |
| Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board Police, School and Youth Collaboration and Engagement |
Under the School Resource Officer program, each high school in the Niagara Region has an assigned officer who provides police services to the administration, student population and the community around the schools. These officers are responsible for enforcing all federal and provincial laws within their schools and provide crime prevention, education and engagement opportunities for students. | $2,356,596 |
| Regional Municipality of Peel Police Services Board Community Mobilization Program |
Developed within Peel Regional Police, the Community Mobilization Program focuses on improving the lives of community members by preventing and reducing crime through community policing. Officers assigned to this program work together in small teams to identify community priorities, engage with community members, motivate community participation and increase trust. | $17,145,888 |
| Regional Municipality of Peel Police Services Board (Caledon) Caledon OPP Enhanced Traffic Enforcement Unit / Enhanced Community Street Crime Unit |
The Caledon Detachment of the OPP will continue the operation of its enhanced Traffic Enforcement Unit (TEU) and enhanced Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU). Both enhanced units are used to focus police resources on investigation, enforcement, and education activities that target specific public safety concerns within the community of Caledon. The TEU increases overall road and community safety within the Town of Caledon through enforcement, education, and engagement activities. The CSCU increases overall community safety and well-being by reducing community-level drug and property crimes. | $720,000 |
| Regional Municipality of York Police Services Board Top Priorities |
Road safety, drug control, property crime enforcement as well as community policing are the priorities identified by York Regional Police. Funding will help provide officers with adequate training to deal with drug-impaired driving offences. They will support frontline and patrol officers in high-density crime areas to ensure effective investigations of property crimes. Grant funding will also help expand York Regional Police Service’s Metal Health Support Team designed to respond to increasing mental health-related calls, extend its senior safety and crime prevention programs and continue to focus on youth engagement activities. | $14,060,353 |
| Shelburne Police Services Board Strengthening our Safer Community Commitment: A Shelburne Police Policing Initiative |
The program aims to address a variety of public safety issues important to Shelburne. These include traffic enforcement, mental health and addictions, drug enforcement and community policing. The funding will help the police service provide extra training and development to its police officers, deploy additional community patrols to better respond to mental health and addictions crises and crack down on street crime, expand school outreach programs, acquire new technology to control traffic, and invest in research to find ways to better respond to mental health and addictions crises. | $78,550 |
| Toronto Police Services Board Enhanced Neighbourhood Officer Program - Yonge Dundas Square Neighbourhood |
Since 2013, Toronto Police Service’s (TPS) Neighbourhood Officer Program has been the cornerstone of community policing in the City of Toronto. With the new funding, TPS is looking at expanding the program to the Yonge Dundas Square area, in the downtown core of the city. The resources will help deploy 10 neighbourhood officers to the area. These officers conduct community patrols and are engaged in problem solving and intelligence gathering. They also play a vital role in identifying, investigating, and intervening in gang activity. | $4,830,000 |
| Toronto Police Services Board Connected Officer Program |
The Connected Officer Program will provide Toronto Police Service with 2,100 mobile smart devices. These devices will allow members to access the TPS business applications they need to perform policing tasks and investigations. The modern mobile device will incorporate a camera, audio recorder, video recorder, computer and two-way radio functions. This solution will help reduce TPS’s costs related to supporting multiple hardware systems and increase the time officers spend in the community. The program will enable members to receive and communicate information in a timely manner regardless of where they are, resulting in improved customer service. | $8,387,000 |
| Toronto Police Services Board - Inclusive Policing Transformation Initiative |
This initiative seeks to establish Toronto Police Service as an international leader in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion. The six projects will include: a race-based data collection strategy to examine whether systemic racism is a factor in TPS’s interactions; an accessibility audit to ensure TPS’s policies, practices and environment are suitable for people with disabilities; a review of TPS’s recruitment practices; a gender diversity and trans inclusion project in support of the LGBTQS+ community; a harassment review to provide solutions on how to address related issues within TPS; and a diversity strategy to provide frontline members with opportunities to develop the competencies they need to serve Toronto’s diverse communities. | $2,555,000 |
| Toronto Police Services Board IT Improvements & Robotic Process Automation |
This initiative consists of two projects that seek to improve the Toronto Police Service’s IT and robotic process automation capacity. The IT project will help optimize TPS’s use of the Cloud and establish a data-governance framework for the management of the service’s data. This will ensure that data is accurate, consistent, complete, available and secure. Robotic automation can be used for prioritizing pending calls to 911, processing parking complaints, or transcribing 911 calls that need to be included in a court case file. These improvements will allow for a more efficient deployment of resources. | $7,131,000 |
| Toronto Police Services Board Focusing on Safe Communities & Wellbeing |
Conducted Energy Weapons or CEWs are regarded as an appropriate use-of-force option to maintain public order and officer safety and help achieve a zero-death goal in encounters with members of the public. Part of the funding will be used to train all frontline members as qualified CEW users and recertify all current operators. The funding will also allow for the purchase of one full body scanner to scan people in custody to detect and locate contraband. | $2,938,000 |
| Toronto Police Services Board Public Safety Response Team |
Since its inception in 2018, the Toronto Police Service's Public Safety Response Team (PSRT) initiative has proven extremely successful in providing capacity for extreme event response, public order and search management and critical infrastructure protection. PSRT is a flexible, intelligence-led, multi-functional team that provides support to frontline policing and community engagement initiatives. TPS seeks to maintain its existence thanks to the funding received. | $29,399,968 |
| Town of Collingwood Police Services Board School Resource Officer |
The School Resource Officer (SRO) is a uniformed officer position with the Collingwood OPP responsible for the two high schools in the Town of Collingwood. This position has existed for 20 years, and the SRO works closely with staff and community support groups to ensure the safety and security of students. | $67,500 |
| Organization and program name | Program description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Belleville Police Service Enhanced data systems and analytics techniques to support police operations -- Belleville Police Service Crime Analyst Unit |
A newly created Crime Analyst Unit will be responsible for collecting, collating, analyzing and disseminating information to all frontline officers and investigative units. This would include serial criminal activity and creating offender/perpetrator profiles. The unit will provide information that will assist in crime detection, prevention and pro-active intervention to suppress crime and other identified concerns locally and provincially. | $369,000 |
| Belleville Police Service Community Response to Opioid Crisis |
The Belleville Police Service will create a new specialized officer position to analyse the current opioid crisis in the city of Belleville and Quinte area. Working collaboratively with community partners across multiple sectors, the officer will undertake a comprehensive review of the current opioid crisis in the community to ensure a proactive, long-term, sustainable response is implemented. | $195,000 |
| Brockville Police Services Board Better Together: Brockville Community Policing Initiative |
Funding will support local community safety and well-being initiatives including community outreach and engagement, and mental health supports including:
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$135,000 |
| Cornwall Community Police Services Board Youth Support Program and Community Mobilization for Crime Prevention |
The Youth Support Program helps steer at-risk youth aged six to 18 away from crime by targeting the underlying problems that lead to coming into conflict with the law. The Community Mobilization for Crime Prevention initiative empowers community members and groups to take action and responsibility for community safety and well-being by working collectively to educate community members with a goal of reducing crime, victimization and social disorder. | $393,750 |
| Deep River Police Services Board A New Joint Approach |
This situation table will bring Deep River police and community service providers together to collectively identify risk factors that are prevalent locally. The table will also provide a network of support for vulnerable populations in the community to prevent crisis situations. | $67,496 |
| Gananoque Police Services Board Leading the Way: Collaborative Community Policing In Gananoque |
Funding will support local community safety and well-being initiatives through community outreach and engagement, and mental health supports including:
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$146,250 |
| Greater Napanee Police Services Board Community Safety and Well-being Coordinator |
The Lennox Addington County OPP detachment will hire a community safety and well-being coordinator to facilitate the research and writing of its community safety and well-being plan. The plan will identify key issues and risks, as well as identify the right partnerships to help reduce the identified risks specific to the community of Greater Napanee. This will increase support for frontline officers by minimizing safety risks, assisting officers to focus on target areas, and reducing calls for service. | $78,750 |
| Hawkesbury Police Services Board The Prescott Russell County Situation Table |
The Prescott Russell County Situation Table brings together police and community partners to address the root causes of crime and social disorder issues such as poverty, addictions, mental health, and educational challenges. This grant will fund a coordinator role to help facilitate bi-weekly community situational table meetings that focus on analyzing and responding to situations of high-risk. | $75,000 |
| Kingston Police Services Board Joining Forces in Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Response: A Contemporary and Collaborative Policing Initiative |
Building on the positive outcomes realized by the Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team and the Crisis Outreach and Support Team, Kingston Police Services will continue these initiatives and introduce HealthIM, a proven technical solution for police service response to mental health crisis calls. The goal is to reduce the number of people apprehended under the Mental Health Act, divert individuals from the hospital, and find alternatives to using the criminal justice system for mental health and addiction issues. | $2,138,808 |
| Ottawa Police Services Board Advancing Community Policing |
The Advancing Community Policing in Ottawa initiative will expand community outreach and engagement, develop plans and strategies to bolster community presence, enhance and refine service delivery partnerships and models, and increase community education and awareness. | $8,808,958 |
| Ottawa Police Services Board Enhancing traffic and road safety |
Enhancing Traffic and Road Safety in Ottawa is a framework of important goals to improve traffic safety, including community awareness, adopting new and emerging technologies and deploying front-line officers to be active participants in traffic enforcement initiatives. The initiative is aligned with Ottawa’s Toward Zero program which aims to reduce all collisions. | $5,027,101 |
| Pembroke Police Services Board Community Safety and Well-being Plan Implementation |
Funding will be used to hire an administrative coordinator to create and implement a Community Safety and Well-being (CSWB) plan. The CSWB plan will outline an integrated approach to service delivery across a wide range of sectors, including police, to pro-actively implement evidence-based strategies and programs to address local safety priorities. | $55,500 |
| Perth Police Services Board Lanark County Situation Table and Community Safety and Well-being Plan Initiative |
The Lanark County Situation Table will implement strategies to find new ways to intervene earlier for people at risk, seek training opportunities for police and agencies to enhance community safety and well-being, and also facilitate consultation and development of an updated CSWB plan. | $135,000 |
| Prescott Police Services Board Mental Health / Community - Outreach, Awareness, and Training |
In partnership with local mental health services, the Police Services Community Mobilization Office conducts home visits with a mental health professional for clients to assess client needs in their home. Separately, the community services officer is active in local schools to establish and maintain a healthy and respectful relationship between youth and police. | $67,500 |
| Quinte West Police Services Board Strengthen community supports |
The Quinte West OPP will partner with Community Organized Support and Prevention to implement local intersections programs to help prevent youth ages 8-17 from getting involved in the criminal justice system. Intersection programs focus on early intervention and community referrals help reduce calls for service by involving appropriate supports and partnerships to address community safety and well-being. | $146,250 |
| Renfrew Police Services Board Renfrew Detachment Area Community Safety & Well-being plan |
A joint Community Safety and Well-being plan will be developed to support the seven municipalities served by the Renfrew OPP detachment. The plan will address local crime and complex social issues on a more sustainable basis by refocusing efforts toward long-term benefits of social development, prevention and risk intervention. | $78,750 |
| Smiths Falls Police Services Board Towards a Safer Smiths Falls - A Smiths Falls Policing Initiative |
The Community Outreach Partnership (COP) program creates a positive bridge between police and community supports to ensure individuals get the help they need. The COP program focuses on addressing mental health and addictions in the community, increasing police surveillance and enforcement in the area of gang activity and drug use, and reinforces outreach activities to help at-risk youth find a better way forward. | $146,250 |
| Stirling-Rawdon Police Services Board Crime Prevention, Community Safety and Well-being |
Frontline police officers are involved in collaborative approaches to crime prevention and community safety and well-being initiatives, with a focus on better understanding community needs by identifying trends, gaps, priorities and successes. The goal is to enhance the health and safety of community members through the development of a Community Safety and Well-Being Plan. | $213,750 |
| Organization and program name | Program description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Aylmer Police Services Board Values Influences and Peers/School Resource Officer |
The existing “Values Influences and Peers” program will be enhanced by targeting current and relevant youth issues such as cyber bullying and enhance school and student safety. The School Resource Officer Program will also be expanded to facilitate better, more consistent and frequent interaction between police and high school students aiming to build trust and positive rapport. |
$67,500 |
| Brantford Police Services Board Brant Community Response Team - Situation Table |
The Brant Community Response Team (BCRT) is a collaborative, multi-agency initiative that influences community safety and wellness to address the needs of high-risk individuals and families. The Brantford Police Service has committed one officer to the situation table, as well as a sergeant as co-chair. The BCRT officer will identify and present situations that meet the standard of acutely elevated risk, and assist other agencies to better serve the community. | $383,313 |
| Brantford Police Services Board Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team & Crisis Outreach and Support Team |
Funding will support the Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team (MCRRT) which aims to better respond to individuals within the community suffering from mental health issues. It pairs one officer with one mental health specialist and since its inception, it has been expanded to have another team and a third mental health specialist. In addition, the funding will support the Crisis Outreach and Support Team (COAST) which was an increased response to those individuals in crisis. The COAST is a secondary response, supplementing the primary response of MCRRT. COAST is comprised of two teams, an officer partnered with a mental health specialist and two mental health specialists. | $1,348,572 |
| Chatham-Kent Police Services Board Chatham-Kent Police Community Mobilization Section |
Funding will allow the continued support of the Community Mobilization Section which promotes a holistic approach to community safety through collaboration between local community organizations and Chatham-Kent Police Services. | $1,665,000 |
| County of Brant Police Services Board Community Safety and Well-Being Plan with the Expansion of Mental Health Incident Response |
This long-term initiative will focus on effective, integrated service delivery to address policing needs and priorities related to the safety and well-being of all Brant County residents, as well as address the ongoing mental health needs in the community. | $219,876 |
| County of Wellington Police Services Board Integrated Mobile Police and Crisis team / Suicide Prevention/Postvention Support Program |
The County of Wellington OPP Detachment and the Canadian Mental Health Association of Waterloo and Wellington will collaborate to provide educational opportunities aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of mental health and suicide prevention among family members of first responders and the adult community. Training will also include information about available services and supports available in the community. | $540,001 |
| Elgin Group Police Services Board Community Mobilization and Engagement / Mental Health, School Presence, Traffic Safety and Enforcement |
These initiatives will continue to enhance ongoing efforts to work closely with the public, community groups and agencies to identify and address the complicated issues of social disorder, mental health, traffic safety and youth issues within the community. This includes building on the roles of the community mobilization and engagement/mental health officer, the traffic management officer, and the youth engagement officer. | $303,750 |
| Grey Highlands Police Services Board Grey Highlands School Resource and Youth Officer |
To help address risk factors for youth that may contribute to crime and social disorder, a school resource and youth officer was established to assist elementary and secondary schools within the municipality. This grant will continue to help fund this vital role in providing education and awareness programs for students to ensure they are well informed and can make good decisions and life choices. | $78,750 |
| Guelph Police Services Board Enhancing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Police Response to Mental Illness Occurrences - Integrated Mobile Police and Crisis Team (IMPACT) |
Through this project, mental health workers are paired with police officers to provide on-scene support to individuals with mental illness in crisis, as well as provide more effective and efficient linkages to other health supports. This initiative also involves enhanced training of officers in response to mental health calls, increasing community education and awareness of mental health issues and supports, and use of an enhanced mental health screening tool to further streamline the assessment and transfer of these persons to the appropriate agency. | $2,069,659 |
| Hanover Police Services Board Community Trail and Downtown Safety Initiative |
The Community Trail and Downtown Safety Initiative aims to help individuals experiencing mental health, addictions and homelessness issues by connecting them with the services they need, when they need them. As part of this initiative, the Hanover Police Service has partnered with the Parks and Recreation Department to create a bike patrol unit. By increasing police presence in community parks and trails engaging community service partners and completing thorough investigations the police believe hope to regain public confidence in community safety. | $67,500 |
| Kincardine Police Services Board School Resource Officer – Education and Awareness Program |
The school resource officer is a positive role-model and mentor for youth and promotes positive interaction between youth and police. They will provide programming on topics such as human trafficking education, to support a changing and diverse community. | $78,750 |
| Lambton Police Services Board Project Vulnerable |
Project Lifesaver will equip and train Lambton County OPP officers in an active response system to locate wandering patients before they fall victim to the elements, accidents or predators. Clients registered with Project Lifesaver will wear a personalized radio wrist bracelet that emits a unique automatic tracking signal, 24-hours a day. | $251,950 |
| LaSalle Police Services Board Mental Health Support Officer & Victim Liaison |
The LaSalle Police Service will employ a Mental Health Support Officer (MHSO) full-time. The MHSO will be a highly trained and experienced officer assigned to work with the criminal investigation division to provide support for front line officers on mental health calls and assist individuals who may be experiencing a mental health crisis. This MHSO will also take on the role of victim liaison to provide support, resources and assistance to victims of crime, and will dedicate time to both internal and external mental health awareness and education initiatives. | $270,000 |
| LaSalle Police Services Board Traffic Enforcement Unit |
The LaSalle Police Service will create a new Traffic Enforcement Unit (TEU) dedicated to targeting aggressive, distracted and careless driving. The TEU will be active on every shift, every day, all year long ensuring traffic management, enforcement and road safety. The TEU will also be involved in core aspects of education and awareness as well as organize, manage and participate in specific traffic safety initiatives such as RIDE programs. | $269,905 |
| Leamington Police Services Board / Essex Police Services Board / Kingsville Police Services Board / Lakeshore Police Services Board / Tecumseh Police Services Board Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team (Essex County) |
Through a collaborative contract between five police services boards, a Hotel Dieu Grace health care crisis worker would be located on-site at the Essex County OPP detachment and will work directly with uniformed police officers as a first responder to people suffering from a mental health crisis. This crisis worker will attend calls for service involving mental health, addictions and other crisis response calls. The crisis worker's experience and education will assist to de-escalate situations using advanced skill training and an understanding of mental health and addictions, as well as expertise in dealing with traumatic events. | $568,125 |
| Leamington Police Services Board / Essex Police Services Board / Kingsville Police Services Board / Lakeshore Police Services Board / Tecumseh Police Services Board Youth Crisis Response Team (Essex County) |
Essex County’s OPP detachment encompasses five police service boards, and through a collaborative contract agreement, one Regional Children's Centre youth crisis worker would be located on-site at the Essex County OPP detachment to work directly with uniformed police officers as a first responder to youth suffering from mental health crises. The crisis worker’s experience and education will assist to de-escalate crisis situations using advanced skill training and an understanding of mental health and addictions, as well as expertise in supporting families in crisis. | $568,125 |
London Police Services Board Community Foot Patrol Unit |
The Community Foot Patrol Unit (CFPU) is an integral component of the London Police Service intended to enhance and maintain community safety. Officers conduct patrols on foot and on bicycle. Each officer is equipped with a cell phone, and community businesses and members have these phone numbers and contact the CFPU directly with non-emergency calls for service. CFPU officers are highly visible in the community which has resulted in a decrease in neighborhood crime, enhanced community partnerships and kept officers in touch with local activity. | $5,743,569 |
| North Huron Police Service Board Community Support Unit to address issues related to mental health, addiction, and other associated issues |
A Community Support Unit (CSU) will be created to address mental health and addictions in Wingham. The unit will work collaboratively with community partners to help eliminate barriers to mental health services and to improve service delivery for individuals experiencing mental health issues who come into contact with the law. The CSU will consist of a mental health officer, community services officer, school resource officer, and domestic violence coordinator. | $213,750 |
| Orangeville Police Services Board Support for situation table and effective mental health response and collaboration |
The Dufferin Situation Table (DST) has been instrumental in ensuring community agencies and services develop strong cross-sectoral collaboration to support children and adults in the community identified as being in situations of elevated risk. This funding will support a portion of the salary of an Orangeville Police DST liaison officer, who participates on the DST Leadership Committee and coordinates interventions with partner agencies for persons at risk. Funding for mental health includes expanding the use of Health IM, a digital tool designed to help police assess mental health patients in the field. | $360,000 |
| Owen Sound Police Services Board Mobile Crisis Response Team |
The Mobile Crisis Response Team will partner a mental health support worker with a police officer to respond to calls related to mental health. Working together, the team will increase awareness and education of mental health issues and supports in the community, and ensure the right response is being provided by the right service provider to those suffering from mental health crises. | $226,250 |
| Owen Sound Police Services Board Part-time officer supplement |
The part-time officer supplement program will enable part-time police coverage during day shifts Monday through Saturday, when the population of the City of Owen Sound nearly doubles. These officers will be assigned duties including zone relief, special events and traffic enforcement activities. | $325,000 |
| Sarnia Police Services Board Mental Health Engagement and Response Team (MHEART) |
MHEART is a collaborative response by the Sarnia Police Service, the Sarnia-Lambton Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and Bluewater Health to provide rapid response to members of the Sarnia community who are suffering from a mental health or addictions crisis. The team will be comprised of a sworn officer and a licensed psychiatric assessment nurse from CMHA. | $337,500 |
| Saugeen Shores Police Services Board Creation of a dedicated Drug Officer Position |
Drug enforcement and prevention is a priority in the jurisdiction of Saugeen Shore, which has seen an increase in illicit drug use. The community has identified the creation of a dedicated drug officer position as being key to address the situation. The drug officer will take a multi-sectoral approach and be responsible for intelligence gathering, enforcement, awareness, education and partnership building to reduce and prevent harm caused by illicit drug use in the community. | $146,250 |
| St. Thomas Police Services Board Enhanced Police Presence; Traffic enforcement; School Presence; Communications and Community Engagement |
This initiative will support the deployment of additional frontline officers when and where they are needed most in the community. New officers will be deployed in schools and on the roads in an effort to strengthen support for youth and increase traffic safety and respond to calls for service more quickly. The position of a full-time, dedicated civilian communications coordinator will also be created to monitor social media, gather intelligence and engage citizens of all ages. | $630,000 |
| Stratford Police Services Board Community Resource Unit Initiative |
Grant funding will support the creation of the Community Resource Unit (CRU) which will apply community policing principles to increase public safety and reduce crime through enhanced relationship building and information sharing across the entire community – especially in schools. The CRU will be tasked with responding to specific community issues (e.g. localized increases in crime) and coordinate frontline response to such issues. | $427,500 |
| Strathroy-Caradoc Police Services Board TERM – focusing on Technology, Engagement, Road safety and Mental health |
To meet the demands of local policing in this rapidly growing community the TERM initiative focuses on acquiring new technology and tools to provide effective and efficient services to community members, specifically in the areas of road safety and mental health screening. The police service will also increase community engagement through participation on multi-sectoral committees and inter-agency groups, as well as taking a stronger focus on road safety enforcement. In addition, the police service will be providing enhanced mental health training to its officers in continued support of the mental health intervention program with local Canadian Mental Health Association partners. | $337,500 |
| Township of Blandford-Blenheim Police Services Board; Ingersoll Police Services Board; Norwich Police Services Board; Tillsonburg Police Services Board; Township of East Zorra-Tavistock Police Services Board (joint) Community Mobilization Officer |
Funding will provide ongoing support for a community mobilization officer (CMO) to serve as a conduit between the Oxford OPP detachment and the Oxford County Situation Table. The CMO regularly identifies individuals who are deemed to be at acutely elevated risk. Their role will be expanded into other areas including a greater focus on human trafficking. | $319,875 |
| Township of Blandford-Blenheim Police Services Board; Ingersoll Police Services Board; Norwich Police Services Board; Tillsonburg Police Services Board; Township of East Zorra-Tavistock Police Services Board (joint) Community Engagement Officer |
Funding will help create the position of community engagement officer to enhance police presence and engagement in these communities through pro-active traffic enforcement with a focus on distracted driving, seatbelts, speed and impaired driving, as well participating in foot patrol and community events such as fairs, school lock down drills and public safety information sessions. | $319,875 |
| Waterloo Regional Police Services Board Community Oriented Response and Enforcement (CORE) Teams |
The Waterloo Regional Police Service’s Community Oriented Response and Enforcement teams will be expanded with the addition of eight officers deployed to the North and Central divisions of the city. CORE teams play a crucial role in community policing addressing priority issues such as street-level drugs, checks on persons who have outstanding arrest warrants, and compliance with bail conditions. They also play a vital role in road safety enforcement and assist in maintaining public safety at large events and festivals. | $7,452,858 |
| West Grey Police Services Board Enhanced staffing to support community wellness education |
Resources will be used to increase staffing capacity so that West Grey Police can expand its community engagement and education programs. The grant will allow part-time officers to perform more frontline duties, so that other officers can attend community events without having an impact on patrol operations and staffing levels on the front line. West Grey Police has been asked by the Saugeen Valley Children’s Village to be the lead policing agency in its educational programs starting September 2019. | $135,000 |
| West Perth Police Services Board; North Perth Police Services Board Perth County Community Safety Unit |
The Perth County OPP have established a community safety unit to proactively address local priorities, including potential risks to public safety. Through public education, early intervention and the engagement of community partners, the unit will address community needs by using a collaborative, targeted and immediate response model. | $146,250 |
| Windsor Police Services Board Windsor Police Community Outreach and Support Team (COAST) and Windsor Situation Table |
The COAST and Windsor Situation Table are two initiatives that work hand in hand to provide supports to individuals experiencing a mental health or addictions related crisis (or at risk of experiencing one) by linking these individuals with the necessary community resources and support systems to prevent crises. Resources will be dedicated to supporting these initiatives across the Windsor and Amherstburg communities, as well as establishing and maintaining a Vulnerable Persons’ Registry. | $1,101,469 |
| Windsor Police Services Board City Centre Patrol |
The initiative will support the deployment of four City Centre Patrols to Windsor’s downtown core. These eight officers will be tasked with connecting people in need to appropriate support services (shelter, counseling, crisis intervention). Operating on foot, bicycle or in police vehicles, these officers will be the first point-of-contact for these individuals and will use their established connections with social services organizations to help them get the help they need. These officers will play an instrumental role in the police’s efforts to address the current local opioid crisis. | $3,163,493 |
| Woodstock Police Services Board High School Officer (HSO) |
Through this initiative, the Woodstock Police will maintain and enhance the role of its HSO. The HSO’s role is to build proactive relationships with the community’s more than 3,000 students and their staff across five local high schools. One of the assigned responsibilities of the HSO is to represent the police service on the local Situation Table, which creates a strong framework of community partners that come together to identify persons at acutely elevated risk of harm so that they can be provided with the appropriate social supports they need. | $399,375 |
| Woodstock Police Services Board Mental Heath Engagement and Response Team (MHEART) Officer(s) |
The funding will allow Woodstock Police Service, and its partners (Oxford County OPP and the Canadian Mental Health Association) to maintain MHEART, a mobile response program that provides a joint response to calls related to a situational crisis, mental health or addictions. The program assists individuals who are experiencing a crisis and those with chronic situations that require long term intervention by connecting them with the right community resources. MHEART teams consist of clinicians who have a professional background in social work or nursing and police officers who have received training in mental health. | $399,375 |
| Organization and program name | Program description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
Elliot Lake Police Services Board Mobile Crisis Response Team and Mental Health Awareness and Education |
The Elliot Lake Police Service will expand its Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) and work with community partners to help eliminate barriers to accessing mental health services and improve service delivery for individuals experiencing mental health issues who may come into contact with police. The project will also assist in building capacity of MCRT staff so the team can assist more clients. Further, the Elliot Lake Police Service will work with local partners to build awareness campaigns to increase awareness and education of mental health issues, services and supports in the community. | $225,000 |
Espanola Police Services Board Community Safety and Well Being |
The funding will support the development and implementation of a community safety and well-being plan. The plan will be informed by data collected to identify baseline statistics for the town plan, and will aim to address any deficiencies identified, including education programming targeting the general community, seniors and youth. | $225,000 |
| Kirkland Lake Police Services Board A Collaborative Approach to Mental Health and Addiction Services |
The Kirkland Lake OPP detachment will expand its relationships with mental health and addictions service providers to ensure that individuals in crisis are provided the right care at the right time by the right service. Grant funding will contribute to the salary of an officer designated as the detachment mental health liaison who will establish a community situation table, help organize training for frontline staff who respond to mental heath and drug related situations as well as connect with community mental health and addiction services to set up referral protocols. | $67,500 |
| North Bay Police Services Board Gateway Hub |
The Gateway Hub is an evidence-based initiative that has challenged traditional roles and reactive responses for the City of North Bay and the District of Nipissing. It provides a frontline, multi-agency forum for identifying individuals and families who are at risk. To meet the unique and immediate needs of these individuals and families, the Gateway Hub addresses the complex and often risky situations through a multi-sectoral commitment to systemic engagement. | $309,439 |
North Bay Police Services Board Mobile Crisis Team |
The Mobile Crisis Team is a community-based partnership between the North Bay Regional Health Centre and the North Bay Police Service. The team is designed to respond to individuals or families experiencing mental health crises to reduce the immediate risk of danger to those individuals or other members in the community. The team can provide psychiatric assessments at the scene of the incident, allowing front-line officers to leave and attend to other priority calls. The Mobile Crisis Team allows for a coordinated response to mental health and addiction issues in the community and allows for a more consistency when those facing crisis are familiar with the responding members of the team. | $309,183 |
| North Bay Police Services Board School Resource Officer |
The North Bay Police Service School Resource Officer (SRO) program helps foster and maintain a safe and non-threatening environment for students, staff and community members. SROs interact with local youth to promote a positive image of police in schools and engage youth in crime prevention strategies. The SRO provides a visible and positive image of law enforcement. Officers provide lectures and presentations on issues like cyber-bullying, sexting, drug use and sexual assault. They also encourage good relationships between police and youth, and between police and school administrations. | $618,878 |
| Sault Ste. Marie Police Services Board Community Mobilization Unit - Community Crisis Response Team (CCRT), Community Safety Officers (CSO) and Community Oriented Response and Enforcement (CORE) |
The Community Mobilization Unit works in partnership with the community and other services to address the root causes of crime, share information, intervene early to reduce victimization and build community capacity. To achieve this goal, the unit relies on a dedicated team of community safety officers dispatched across schools, community hubs, various intervention teams (CCRT, CSO and CORE) as well as the Neighbourhood Resource Centre. | $2,070,000 |
| Greater Sudbury Police Services Board Sexual Violence Response Team |
An enhanced, Sexual Violence Response Team will be created to build on the successful work completed by the Victimization Reduction Team. This initiative will feature an enhanced sexual assault review coordinator constable, investigative clerk, civilian personnel and current Criminal Investigation Division investigators responsible for cases involving sexual violence, high risk offenders, at-risk and marginalized youth and sex offenders. This initiative will engage and mobilize community partners to prevent vulnerable persons from being victimized through a victim-focused approach with an emphasis on outreach, partnerships, public education, prevention and protection. | $732,344 |
| Greater Sudbury Police Services Board The Community Engagement and Response Team comprising of the following initiatives A) Community Mobilization Liaison Officer B) School Youth Engagement and Mobilization – School Resource Officers C) Community Safety Personnel - Youth Safety Coordinators and Senior’s Liaison Coordinator D) Community Response Unit E) Volunteer Coordinator |
Through collaboration and engagement with associations, businesses and individuals responding to local concerns, the Greater Sudbury Police Service will develop shared strategies to tackle root causes of crime and social disorder through:
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$1,313,354 |
| Greater Sudbury Police Services Board Police Community Response Centre (PCRC) |
The PCRC is reprioritizing calls for service and providing alternative forms of police response, while maintaining public trust and accountability to drastically reducing frontline call load, resulting in modernization of the service. Funding will expand PCRC’s hours of operation and staffing levels, better allocating response resources to where they’re needed most. | $1,234,246 |
| Temiskaming Shores Police Services Board Enhanced Drug and Street Crime Enforcement |
Through the Enhanced Drug and Street Crime Enforcement initiative, police will work with local groups such as Crime Stoppers, Victim Services Temiskaming, MADD, schools boards and the Temiskaming Youth Justice Committee to support efforts to prevent drug and street crime. | $67,500 |
| Timmins Police Services Board Community Mobilization including Situation Table/Community Orientated Foot Patrol, Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team, and an Indigenous Liaison |
A dedicated community safety officer will be assigned to support the police’s efforts to address the local opioid crisis. The officer will assist in the development of a comprehensive Community Safety and Well-being Plan aiming to take a proactive, collaborative approach to identifying priorities in the community, ensuring education and engagement with at-risk citizens and the identification of appropriate strategies needed in place to address the situation. | $1,395,000 |
| West Nipissing Police Services Board Community Safety Officer to address Opioid Crisis, Mental Health Strategy and Community Safety and Well-being |
The Lanark County Situation Table will implement strategies to find new ways to intervene earlier for people at risk, seek training opportunities for police and agencies to enhance community safety and well-being, and also facilitate consultation and development of an updated CSWB plan. | $292,500 |
Provincial priority projects
From 2019-22, we are investing $14 million for 18 projects across Ontario that support provincial community safety priorities. Between 2020-22, we will invest $2.8 million over two years to support an additional 17 projects.
| Organization and program name | Program description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dryden Police Services Board Community Service Enhancement and Community Wellbeing Initiative |
Working collaboratively with community partners and stakeholders, existing community resources, systems and networks will be enhanced to increase positive outcomes for Dryden area residents. This initiative focuses on youth to ensure they have a sense of inclusion in the community, where they can get involved, participate in activities in a safe environment promoting well-being and healthy activities, and support those at risk of experiencing mental health and/or behavioral concerns, with access to mental health services. Funding will also support the Community Well-being Plan. | $225,000 |
| Kenora Police Services Board Kenora Mobile Crisis and Outreach Team |
The Mobile Crisis and Outreach Team brings together the OPP and the Mental Health and Addictions Program at Kenora Chiefs Advisory to provide crisis response services for youth ages 12 to 24. This team responds to youth in crisis and meets with youth regularly in group homes and alternative education centres to ensure they are supported, receiving treatment and counselling. The team also provides land based and traditional teachings exercises to support Indigenous youth in the community. This grant will continue to fund this initiative which has assisted over 100 youth in Kenora and the surrounding Indigenous communities since October 2017. | $675,000 |
| Red Lake Police Services Board Red Lake CIRCLE situation table and development of a community safety and well-being plan |
Funding will support the ongoing work of the Red Lake CIRCLE situation table, a collaboration of local support services to mitigate risk situations, and to add an external consultant to assist in the development of a Community Safety and Well-being Plan that will address local needs. | $157,500 |
| Shuniah Police Services Board Front-line officer enforcement and deployment |
A frontline liaison officer will work with the municipality on local priorities and address law enforcement needs. The officer will also support the municipality’s Community Safety and Well-being Plan and ensure that initiatives are effective in addressing social development, prevention, risk intervention and incident response. | $157,500 |
| Sioux Narrows Nestor Falls Police Services Board Community Safety Officer |
A full-time, dedicated community safety officer (CSO) will visit local schools, organize community events for students and host weekly open office events connecting the community with the local OPP detachment. This engagement allows the CSO to speak with community members about a wide range of local priorities. | $157,500 |
| Thunder Bay Police Services Board The Joint Mobile Crisis Response (JMCR) Project |
The JMCR Project is a multi-partner program that responds to mental health and addictions crisis-related calls for service. Launched in 2018, in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association (Thunder Bay) and the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, the program will be enhanced to provide mental health education to all Thunder Bay Police Service officers as well as specific crisis intervention training to crisis workers and officers directly involved in the JMCR team. This will increase the officers’ ability to appropriately respond to people experiencing a crisis. | $979,911 |
| Thunder Bay Police Services Board Project River Safety and Health Initiative (Project Floodway) |
Project Floodway is an existing multi-partner public safety and community policing initiative developed to respond to Recommendation 115 of the “Inquest into the Deaths of Seven First Nations Youths.” Resources will be used to enable the deployment of frontline police officers along five identified waterways in the city of Thunder Bay with the goal of these locating, assisting, and preventing intoxicated persons from injuring themselves near waterways. | $979,911 |
| Organization and program name | Program description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Brantford Police Service Coordinated Anti-human Trafficking Strategy |
In collaboration with several multisectoral partners, the Brantford Police Service (BPS) is launching a comprehensive anti-human trafficking strategy to identify victims of human trafficking and individuals at risk of becoming victims to reduce victimization. To support the strategy, BPS will form a multidisciplinary Human Trafficking Team (HTT) to design support services to provide victims and those at risk with the help they need. Officers on the HTT will receive enhanced training. In addition, BPS will add a communications position to develop and implement social media and education campaigns to help prevent high school students from being recruited and exploited. Grant funding will also support the purchase of advanced surveillance equipment and technology to identify and rescue victims and prosecute. | $1,537,464 |
Brockville Police Services Board Strengthening our Commitment to a Safer Brockville: A Community Crime Response Initiative |
Organized crime, youth violence and gang activity, drugs and human trafficking have been identified as Brockville’s top community safety issues. The initiative seeks to respond to these current priorities by establishing a Community Crime Response Unit (CCRU) made up of two dedicated officers, enhancing BPS’s intelligence analytics capacity, and providing specialized intelligence training to the CCRU officers. | $399,858 |
| Cornwall Community Police Services Board Beyond One Percent - Cornwall, Ontario |
The Cornwall Police Service will initiate a multijurisdictional and multisectoral anti-crime initiative targeting criminal groups including those involved in gun violence, drug trafficking, and human trafficking. Intelligence gathering through traditional methods including human sources, police surveillance and investigations will be used in combination with emerging analytics tools and new surveillance equipment. This initiative will allow the Cornwall Police Service to better utilize resources while assisting frontline officers in the performance of their duties. | $599,315 |
| County of Brant Police Services Board Enhanced Police Response to Victims of Sexual Violence Through Training Partnerships and Increased Accessibility |
To better support victims of sexual violence and harassment, Brant County OPP will provide enhanced training to officers to help build knowledge about sexual violence and harassment, and the community-based programs and referral process victims should follow to access services. The initiative will also focus on educating community partners on the process police follow when investigating sexual assault allegations to better support survivors together. | $19,600 |
| Durham Regional Police Services (DRPS) Board Sustaining the DRPS’ strategy to combat gang activity, shootings and illegal firearm possession and trafficking |
Durham Regional Police Service’s Gun and Gang Enforcement Unit will continue to use a combination of intelligence-led investigative strategies targeting criminal gangs, drug traffickers, organized crime groups and individuals unlawfully trafficking and/or in possession of firearms. The current strategy focuses on strengthening enforcement initiatives as well as education and prevention activities. | $2,088,142 |
| Greater Sudbury Police Services Board The Integrated Crime Team |
The Integrated Crime Team (ICT) aims to fight, prevent and reduce gang activity and human trafficking. It is made up of the Break, Enter and Robbery Unit, the Cybercrime Unit, the Drug Enforcement Unit and the Intelligence Unit. The ICT works in partnership with other Ontario policing partners and community agencies dedicated to supporting survivors of human trafficking. | $1,093,372 |
| Guelph Police Services Board Project Stronger Together - Supporting Violence Prevention and Community Well-being Through Community Collaboration |
Project Stronger Together is a partnership between the Guelph Police Service, Victim Services Wellington, the Child Witness Centre, the Guelph General Hospital, and Women in Crisis. This collaborative initiative is aimed at reducing sexual violence and harassment and human trafficking through a variety of prevention, education and enforcement initiatives. For example, one initiative will focus on improving victims’ experience throughout the investigative process. This will include enhanced training for GPS officers and a “soft interview room” to make the process of interviewing victims more comfortable for them, thus improving investigative outcomes. | $895,280 |
| Kincardine Police Services Board Improving Public Awareness and Engagement in Prevention of and in Support of Victims/Survivors of Sexual Violence and Harassment and Human Trafficking |
The Kincardine Police Service Board, Women’s House Serving Bruce and Grey, and Violence Prevention Grey Bruce are partnering to increase public awareness and training around the growing issues of sexual violence and harassment, and human trafficking in the community. A team consisting of officers and a part-time support worker will work together to develop public education campaigns on sexual violence and harassment geared to parents and youth as well as campaigns geared toward the service industry (e.g. hotels, restaurants, and bars) to help these groups identify signs of human trafficking. New equipment will also be purchased. | $87,050 |
| Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board Supporting Survivors of Human Trafficking - Niagara Community Response Initiative |
The Niagara Regional Police Service is partnering with Victims Services Niagara and the YWCA Niagara to provide victims of human trafficking with the services and supports they need. The project relies on a team made up of specially trained investigators, closely supported by a network of crisis responders and community supports (e.g. emergency shelter, counselling services, safety planning, and transitional housing.) This initiative will also support the newly-created Human Trafficking Unit to assist frontline operations and provide investigative expertise. | $856,170 |
| Perth Police Services Board Collaborative Approaches to Survivor Engagement (CASE) |
CASE aims to encourage more survivors of sexual violence and harassment to report the crimes they have been victims of, as well as improve responses for victims. CASE focuses on victim advocacy, survivor engagement and enhanced training and includes the creation of a dedicated victim advocate position, to help victims get the supports they need (e.g. court support and crisis-related counselling) when they need them. The project will also look at providing additional training to project partners and officers as well as encouraging victims of crime to share their experiences in a film that will be used for officer training. | $166,650 |
| Peterborough Community Police Services Board Special Victims Unit |
Peterborough Police Service is creating a Special Victims Unit to increase efforts to fight human trafficking, child exploitation, elder abuse, domestic violence as well as sexual violence and harassment. The funding will help staff the unit and acquire new data generation technology. Staff will be responsible for providing comprehensive case management and will support victims from the beginning of an investigation through to the end of the trial. | $832,692 |
| Sarnia Police Services Board Collaboratively Tackling Human Trafficking |
Funding will support two dedicated officers for the Sarnia Police Service focused on addressing human trafficking. Their work will help identify human trafficking locations (e.g. hotels, motels, and private residences) as well as victims. The officers will provide victims with comprehensive support including assistance with exiting the illegal trade and connecting them to the social services they need. | $207,380 |
| Strathroy-Caradoc Police Services Board Circle |
The Strathroy-Caradoc Police Service (SCPS) will continue to work with the local Women’s Rural Resource Centre and maintain its participation on several anti-human trafficking groups. SCPS will also expand its school outreach program to both elementary and secondary schools to educate students about human trafficking. | $195,000 |
| St. Thomas Police Services Board Improving Police Support for Victims / Survivors of Human Trafficking |
The St. Thomas Police Service is collaborating with several community agencies to better support survivors of human trafficking as they go through the investigative process. The funding will help provide ongoing training to enhance frontline officers’ knowledge and abilities in supporting survivors, add a new Street Crimes police officer, provide the necessary resources to maintain the position of Technological Crimes investigator and help develop a social media awareness campaign to encourage the public to be an active police partner on the issue of human trafficking. | $870,417 |
| Thunder Bay Police Services Board Working in Partnership to End Human Trafficking |
In partnership with the “Thunder Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking,” a coalition comprised of 25 victims support providers, the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) is launching a comprehensive anti-human trafficking initiative. This includes the creation of a dedicated Human Trafficking Unit and the development/implementation of a broad awareness campaign to educate the hospitality, finance and transportation sectors on how to recognize signs of human trafficking. With the funding, TBPS will also provide training to officers and crisis workers involved on joint-mobile crisis response teams and build a “soft interview room” to provide victims and survivors with a welcoming environment to report a crime. | $804,663 |
| Timmins Police Services Board Combating the growing concern of human trafficking in the City of Timmins through enforcement, education, training and establishment of community partnerships |
The Timmins Police Service will establish a dedicated Human Trafficking Unit to conduct investigations, promote education and awareness about human trafficking primarily among the hospitality industry, and provide enhanced training on the topic to fellow officers. The unit will also be responsible for forging and maintaining partnerships with community stakeholders. | $432,072 |
| Waterloo Regional Police Services Board Gang Intelligence and Enforcement Initiative |
In response to the rise in gang activity and violence in Waterloo Region, the Waterloo Regional Police Service will dedicate four full-time officers, one half-time supervisor, and one half-time intelligence analyst to support gang intelligence gathering and enforcement. The team will use a multi-faceted approach to gathering intelligence on local area gangs using partnerships with other police agencies, school resource officers, community associations, and school boards to identify, reform or prevent youth from joining gangs. | $1,049,032 |
| Regional Municipality of York Police Services Board Project Tourmaline |
Project Tourmaline is an integrated and multisectoral partnership that aims to address the issues of gun and gang violence, sexual violence and harassment, and human trafficking. Through the project, police identify the “intersections” or links that exist between gang violence and human trafficking in York Region to support effective prevention and early identification of risks. The initiative includes partnerships with First Nations. | $2,088,142 |
| Organization and program name | Program description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Aylmer Police Services Board Improving Police Support for Victims/Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence Training and Equipment |
Aylmer Police Service will continue to collaborate with several community agencies to improve interactions with, and experiences for, survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Funding for this initiative will help provide ongoing training to frontline police officers so they are equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to adopt a victim-centered approach when supporting survivors of violence. The grant will also help upgrade the police service’s interview room space so that it provides a hospitable environment to victims when reporting their assaults, and, design a targeted social media campaign to increase public awareness on how the community can partner with the police to combat domestic and sexual violence. | $191,692 |
| Barrie Police Services Board Every Voice Matters- A Framework for Child and Youth Sexual Violence Investigations |
Barrie Police Service (BPS) and its partners will develop a ground-breaking framework that will help ensure the service’s response to complaints of child and youth sexual violence and human trafficking is coordinated, effective, and victim centered. BPS will work with subject matter experts from policing, academia, and community organizations, such as The Hospital for Sick Children and the local children's aid society, to develop the framework. Additionally, BPS will use its experience contributing to the development of the “Canadian Framework for Collaborative Police Response on Sexual Violence” to develop this new best-practices guide. | $175,000 |
| Bradford West Gwillimbury & Innisfil (South Simcoe) Police Services Board In Our Sights to Combat Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence: A Progressive South Simcoe Policing Initiative |
The Towns of Innisfil and Bradford West Gwillimbury have been the target of increased human trafficking and drug and gang activity in recent years. Funding for this initiative will help South Simcoe Police expand the capacity of its Crimes Against Persons Unit (CAPU) to include a dedicated investigator to lead sex crimes intelligence, investigation and enforcement activities. The goal is to strengthen the strategic foundation for the operation of the CAPU through enacting key program development activities such as the development of a strategic framework for the unit. | $150,500 |
| Chatham-Kent Police Services Board Project SAFE |
In partnership with Chatham-Kent Victim Services and other key local and provincial community partners, Chatham-Kent Police Service will develop, launch and implement a comprehensive four-pillar strategy to address sexual violence and harassment within the community. The strategy will focus on providing training to frontline supervisors to ensure they have the skills needed to handle cases in the early stages of investigation as well as building community awareness about human trafficking by engaging the public through social media and partnering with schools. Funding will also help enhance supports provided to victims and survivors as well as upgrade the service’s equipment to increase its capacity to collect, secure and present the best possible evidence in court. | $195,476 |
| County of Wellington Police Services Board Collaborative "We Stand With You" - "WSWU" |
The County of Wellington Police Service and its partners will develop a collaborative, coordinated, multi-sectoral approach to supporting victims and survivors of sexual violence, harassment and human trafficking. The WSWU project will focus on establishing and maintaining relationships with key community partners to provide adequate supports to victims. Funding will also help provide training to both police and community partners in areas such as trauma-informed approaches and victims’ resources access. The initiative also includes an education component to allow the community at large to play a greater role in fighting sexual violence, harassment and human trafficking. | $160,240 |
| Gananoque Police Services Board Leading the Way: A Gananoque Police Service Policing Initiative |
Funding for this initiative will help Gananoque Police Service hire a full-time investigator to maintain effective intelligence gathering and share with key justice partners, provide crime analytics, collaborate with other police services and justice partners on joint actions in the areas of human trafficking, internet child exploitation, child pornography and child luring, and lead sexual violence and harassment investigations. | $156,213 |
| Hamilton Police Services Board Youth Engagement Series |
In partnership with the Hamilton YMCA, the City of Hamilton’s Youth Engagement Strategy and the Xperience Annex, Hamilton Police Service is launching a new, youth-focused engagement program to inform and empower at-risk youth aged 12 to 18 who experience difficulties finding their place in their community. Through the program, youth will attend presentations on topics such as human trafficking, guns and gangs, vice and drugs and social media. Funding will be used to coordinate the creation and operation of the program as well as provide additional support to the Hamilton community through the hiring of an additional anti-human trafficking youth in-transition worker and a part-time court support worker. Through awareness and prevention activities, the anti-human trafficking youth in-transition worker will support youth re-enter school after surviving trafficking, in collaboration with local school boards. | $147,800 |
| Hamilton Police Services Board Youth Prevention and Intervention Initiative |
Hamilton Police Service and the John Howard Society of Hamilton, Burlington and Area will work collaboratively, utilizing an integrated service model approach involving various programs to improve community safety and well-being. The Youth Prevention and Intervention Initiative will focus on programming, supports and case management activities for in-risk, at-risk, and high-risk youth in Grades 6, 7 and 8 and their families. It will be provided in person or virtually as appropriate and will take place within the community, in partnership with school boards, with the goal of supporting youth to address criminogenic thinking patterns and to develop pro-social behaviors. | $160,281 |
| Kingston Police Services Board Crushing ICE |
Funding for this initiative will help Kingston Police Service pay for a part-time investigative officer to focus on online child exploitation crimes. The grant will also help purchase essential technological tools. | $112,698 |
| Lambton Police Services Board Project 1 in 3: Pre-Charge Youth Diversion Program in Sexual Assault Offences |
Lambton Police is launching a new, innovative support program that will focus on youth aged 12 to 17 who have been accused of sexual offences and hold them to a level of accountability when charges have not been laid. The program will educate them about the consequences of their actions in the hope of preventing recidivism. The program will also assist in helping victims of sexual offences heal. | $200,000 |
| London Police Services Board Guns and Gangs - Intervention Through Enforcement |
Funding for this initiative will support London Police Service’s internal reorganization of certain operational units within its Criminal Investigation Division in an effort to deploy resources more effectively to accurately respond to crime and violence that the individuals are facing, including guns and gangs and drug trafficking Under this model, the funding will help support an investigator, as part of the Guns and Gangs Unit, to augment London Police Service’s capacity to enhance community safety through short-term projects, intervention and community partnerships. The projects are directed at gang deterrence and suppressions in areas of the city that require resources. Also, the unit will engage at-risk youth in the community by offering social support services, engage in intelligence-gathering, and develop networks with government and community agencies to help London Police better respond to criminal activity in the community. | $118,351 |
| Orangeville Police Services Board Ensuring Dufferin OPP has the resources and trained officers able to assist in the goal of combating Human Trafficking |
Funding for this initiative will help launch a two-year education program designed to provide online training and courses in the areas of anti-human trafficking to 69 police officers, in collaboration with multi-sectoral partners. Once trained, these police officers will be equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out human trafficking investigations, bring perpetrators to justice and identify and protect victims. | $120,202 |
| Orillia Police Services Board Streamlined and Collaborative Response to Sexual Violence |
The Orillia Ontario Provincial Police detachment will streamline its handling of sexual assault investigations in a victim-centered manner and hire a full-time officer to oversee the early stages of case management before handing over cases to the investigative team. Funding from this grant will also help develop a one-day workshop for detachment members on how to best manage sexual violence cases. In addition, the grant will be used to redesign the two interview rooms so that they provide a hospitable environment for victims when recounting their assaults. | $175,411 |
| Regional Municipality of Halton Police Services Board Human Trafficking Unit |
Halton Regional Police has established a robust multi-pronged plan to combat human trafficking — a growing public safety concern in the region. Funding will be used to ensure the Drug and Human Trafficking Unit, the plan’s main component, can continue to operate. With five officers exclusively dedicated to conducting human trafficking investigations and carrying out actions to disrupt these types of operations, the unit plays a central role in HRP’s fight against human trafficking. Other aspects of the plan include providing investigative awareness training to all frontline patrol officers as it pertains to anti-human trafficking and maintaining a 24/7 emergency response support service that provides survivors of human trafficking with emotional support and emergency access to accommodation, clothing and other personal needs. | $200,000 |
| Town of Collingwood Police Services Board The enforcement and suppression of gun and gang violence and drug trafficking in the Collingwood / Town of Blue Mountain area along with education and awareness program |
Funding for this initiative will help the Collingwood Police Service equip itself with enhanced tools to monitor gang movement and drug trafficking through surveillance operations. Collingwood Police Service will also educate youth aged 13 to 18 about gun and gang violence and substance abuse through a speaker series. | $153,307 |
| Windsor Police Services Board Educate/Prevent/Enforce and Support |
Funding for this initiative will help the Windsor Police Service tackle human trafficking and gun and gang violence through a three-phase approach: Education and prevention, enforcement, and victims’ support. Phase 1 consists of delivering an education and prevention program to young women living in group homes who are particularly vulnerable to being lured into human trafficking. Phase 2 consists of carrying out a series of intelligence-led investigations to identify perpetrators and victims of human trafficking. Lastly, phase 3 focuses on providing victims with exit strategies and the supports they need to escape human trafficking. | $200,000 |
| Woodstock Police Services Board Special Victims Unit |
In collaboration with key community partners, Woodstock Police Service is establishing a Special Victims Unit to enhance its support to victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, child exploitation and elder abuse. Consisting of two constables and a part-time forensic analyst, the unit will be dedicated to the coordination, investigation and follow-up of offences falling under these categories. The unit will closely work with Woodstock Police Service’s Internet Child Exploitation unit and domestic violence coordinator as well as community partners to ensure the needs of victims are met. | $200,000 |
Ontario Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) Grant
The Ontario CCTV Grant is a new provincial grant program, launched in August 2020, designed to support police services in expanding CCTV systems to deter criminal activity and improve public safety. Part of Ontario’s Guns, Gangs and Violence Reduction Strategy, this grant represents a $6 million investment that will be made available over the next three fiscal years, from 2020-2021 to 2022-2023.
All municipal and First Nations police services, as well as the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), are eligible to apply for each of the three fiscal years. For 2020-2021, approximately $1.6 million has been allocated across 18 police services. Applicants are required to pay a minimum of 50 per cent of the total project costs.
Ontario Closed-Circuit Television Grant recipients
| Police service and program name | Project description | Ministry funding |
|---|---|---|
| Barrie Police Service (BPS) Leveraging Technology |
BPS will replace obsolete equipment and install additional CCTV surveillance cameras in areas of Barrie’s downtown core that have become a growing concern for gang-related activity, including human trafficking. The data collected using the CCTV technology will help BPS’ investigators determine where criminal activity is taking place, identify victims of human trafficking and rescue these individuals. | $170,000 |
Brantford Police Service The Brantford Police Service Violence Reduction Strategy in the Downtown Core |
Funding will be used to design and install a brand-new CCTV surveillance system in Brantford’s downtown and surrounding areas. With the new system, Brantford Police Service and their partners hope to deter crime and provide police with a tool to assist in identifying violent criminals. | $123,000 |
| Chatham-Kent Police Service Birds Eye View |
The Chatham-Kent Police Service and municipal partners are joining forces to strengthen community safety and crime prevention through the implementation of a new CCTV surveillance system. The new system will be an effective investigative tool for police and assist in the deterrence of crime for a safer and secure environment. | $37,993.93 |
| Cobourg Police Service Next Generation Community Safety Strategy |
The new CCTV system will provide an integrated and scalable solution to address Cobourg’s community safety needs. As part of their Next Generation Community Safety Strategy, the system will help deter violent crime, provide a reliable investigative tool to police and support effective prosecutions. | $200,000 |
| Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) Targeting Guns, Gangs and Violence Through CCTV Program |
The grant will help DRPS fund a three-pronged CCTV initiative which aims to deter violence, help protect victims of gun and gang violence and improve overall community safety. Cameras will be strategically deployed based on current crime trends and identified hot spots of gang and gun violence. Durham’s improved CCTV system will allow the DRPS to gather video evidence that can be used to support both investigations and criminal prosecutions. | $40,400 |
| Greater Sudbury Police Services Board Project Gateway |
The Greater Sudbury Police Service will expand its CCTV surveillance system in areas where there has been an increasing number of gun and gang-related incidents associated with drug and human trafficking. The CCTV technology will also help with the seizure of illegal drugs, prohibited firearms and proceeds of crime. The evidence collected through Greater Sudbury’s CCTV surveillance system will assist other police services’ investigations due to the multi-jurisdictional nature of gang-related activities. | $48,110.09 |
| Hamilton Police Service Mobile CCTV Equipment |
Funding will be used to deploy additional mobile CCTV surveillance cameras in areas that have been identified as gang activity hot spots in Hamilton. The intelligence gained through the use of mobile CCTV surveillance system will be used to identify gang associates and provide intelligence on the criminal operations of street gangs, organized crime groups or any individual committing violent firearm offences. | $35,000 |
| Kawartha Lakes Police Service City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service Partnership with Kawartha Lakes Haliburton Housing Corporation |
Funding will support the purchase and installation of new CCTV cameras across Kawartha Lakes Haliburton Housing Corporation’s (KLHHC) properties in Lindsay that currently have no or very limited CCTV surveillance capacity. KLHHC-owned properties in Lindsay have experienced an increasing number of hostile unit takeovers, violent assaults and shooting incidents. This project will help detect, identify and apprehend violent offenders and improve safety for residents. | $19,125 |
| Niagara Regional Police Services CCTV Expansion |
The Niagara Regional Police Service will expand CCTV surveillance capacity across the region where there is growing criminal activity, such as St. Catharines’s downtown core and the touristic part of Niagara Falls, which have been identified as new hot spots for gang activity. Evidence collected through CCTV coverage will provide patrol officers and investigators with real-time visual evidence to help detect and identify gang members and support the prosecution process. | $90,000 |
| OPP Headquarters - Huronia West Detachment Town of Wasaga Beach New CCTV System for Town's West End |
In partnership with the Town of Wasaga Beach, the Huronia West Detachment of the OPP’s Central Region will expand CCTV surveillance capacity to the town’s west end, which has been the scene of increasing gun and gang violence. The goal of the initiative is to prevent crime, identify offenders and hold them accountable by providing relevant video evidence to police investigators to support both the investigation and prosecution processes. | $22,325 |
| OPP Kenora City of Kenora Camera Upgrade |
The project will support the expansion of Kenora’s CCTV surveillance system to areas of the city that are underserviced and have been reporting high-crime rates. Funding will also allow for an upgrade of storage and downloading technology. The expanded surveillance system will help police swiftly identify crime suspects, conduct missing and vulnerable persons investigations and present the best possible evidence in court prosecutions. | $50,000 |
| OPP Quinte West Expansion of Quinte West CCTV program |
OPP Quinte West will use the funding to expand CCTV surveillance capacity in areas of Quinte West outside the downtown core and high-traffic areas that are not currently covered by cameras. The additional cameras will increase CCTV coverage and give local police the tools they need to detect and identify individuals involved in criminal activity as well as investigate and prosecute them. The project will also help deter violent criminals from entering densely-populated areas and increase community safety overall. | $200,000 |
| Peel Regional Police Peel CCTV Guns, Gangs and Violence Reduction Strategy |
Funding will help expand CCTV surveillance capacity along Highways 410 and 403 to reach optimal coverage of both of these major transportation arteries. Incidents occurring on these two highways have been closely linked to gun and gang violence and organized crime activities, putting the safety of every day citizens at risk. Optimal surveillance of Highways 410 and 403 will help the police intervene in an expeditious manner and identify all parties involved, even preventing homicides from being committed in some case. | $150,000 |
| Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Sault Ste. Marie Police Services - Community Mobilization |
To address this growing issue of gun, drug and human trafficking in Northern Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie Police Service will install a state-of-the-art Automated License Plate Recognition system at key points on the region’s highways that will allow for the monitoring of gang movements. The information gathered will provide the police with the knowledge of gang member activities in Sault Ste. Marie as well as their continued travel, both north and east, assisting other police agencies across the province. | $28,797.66 |
| St. Thomas Police Service Project CCTV St. Thomas: A Progressive CCTV Surveillance Initiative |
Grant funding will help set up St. Thomas’s new CCTV surveillance system at several strategic locations in the downtown core. The new system will enhance already-existing investigation and intelligence gathering programs in the city as well as improve both community safety and the desirability of St. Thomas as a place for shopping, business and leisure. | $87,047.50 |
| Thunder Bay Police Service Eye on The Street |
Grant funding will help upgrade and expand Thunder Bay’s existing CCTV system, to include the latest technology to meet the pressures of modern police operations. The project will increase surveillance capacity in top priority areas where drug trafficking has become a growing issue and enable officers to identify, prevent and respond to increased gun and gang-related criminal activity. | $200,000 |
| Timmins Police Service Operation "Oversight” |
Operation “Oversight” seeks to expand Timmins’s currently-existing CCTV surveillance system to areas of the city that have presented persistent problems with drug trafficking, drug use, violent crime, and human trafficking. Cameras will be installed at strategic locations to capture video footage, identify criminals, and deter gun, gang, and violent activities in these areas. | $25,000 |
| Windsor Police Service City of Windsor Traffic Camera Project |
With the funding, Windsor Police Service will expand CCTV surveillance coverage in the City of Windsor’s downtown core by adding new modern digital cameras to the network and replacing older ones. Many of the new camera installations will provide multi-directional views at key intersections. This project will significantly increase the traffic camera coverage in the city and the quality of the captured video, as well as help deter gun and gang violence and support both the investigation and prosecution processes. | $142,650 |