Program Development

Current Programs

The Program Development section administers the following ministry grant programs:

• Community Policing Partnerships (CPP) Program provides cost-sharing transfer payments to municipalities to hire 1,000 new front-line police officers;
• Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (R.I.D.E.) provides grants to municipalities to enhance regular R.I.D.E. spot check activities, carried out by local police services;
• Partners Against Crime (PAC)
  • Community Crime Prevention Grant provides grants to eligible organizations for specific, time-limited projects addressing community-based crime prevention needs;
  • Front-Line Policing Grant provides grants to Ontario police services to support front-line police activities for community safety and crime prevention initiatives.
• Constable Joe MacDonald Public Safety Officer's Survivors Scholarship Fund (Cst. Joe MacDonald PSOSSF) provides scholarship funding to eligible families of public safety officers who died in the line of duty;
• Youth Crime and Violence Initiative provides grants to the following:
  • police services for enforcement programs that reflect a strict discipline approach to youth crime;
  • police and community agency partnerships for prevention programs that have potential to decrease youth crime.
• Municipal Police Services Technology Grant Fund (MPSTGF) provides grants to municipal police services to support provincial technology initiatives (funding for this initiative was completed in the 2001/2002 fiscal year).