Policing Services

Program Development

Current Programs

The Program Development section administers the following ministry grant programs:

• 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.