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Published Results-Based Plan 2007/08
Ministry Overview
Ministry Financial Information
Annual Reports 2005/06 and 2006/07
The Ontario government is committed to making Ontarians safer in their communities by being tough on crime through strong enforcement and tough on the causes of crime through effective prevention.
The mandate of the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS) is to ensure that Ontario's communities are supported and protected by law enforcement and that public safety and correctional systems are safe, secure, effective, efficient and accountable.
The ministry has a wide range of responsibilities, which include frontline policing; establishing and ensuring policing standards and providing police oversight services; coordinating public safety initiatives, such as forensic sciences, fire investigation/ prevention, coroner's services, regulation of the private security industry, and emergency preparedness and response; and supervision and rehabilitation of adult offenders in correctional institutions and in the community.
Working with our Justice Sector partner, the Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG), the ministry is committed to transforming the way justice works for the people of Ontario by building a more responsive and efficient justice system. The ministry, working through policing services and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), is improving the protection of victims, children and other vulnerable Ontarians through assertive action against violent crime and criminal activities that fund crime. Working through the Emergency Management Division, the ministry is ensuring community emergency preparedness and response capabilities throughout the province. Correctional Services is committed to reducing re-offending rates and helping more people become contributing members of society, which will help build safer, stronger communities.
Key Priorities & Results
Safe and secure communities are the hallmark of life in Ontario and MCSCS is dedicated to protecting and preparing Ontario's diverse communities and supporting the government's commitments of 'Stronger, Safer Communities' and 'Healthier Ontarians' by focusing on/investing in five key ministry priority areas:
Key ministry strategies that support the government's priority of stronger, safer communities include:
Key Performance Measures
The ministry is protecting and preparing our communities for Ontario's safe future by focusing on the following performance measures:
The Justice Sector ministries' strategies are designed to achieve a modern, improved, seamless justice system that emphasizes safer communities, reduced crime and re-offending, and bolsters public confidence. This vision is in line with the overall government public safety priorities to be tough on crime, and being effective in preventing crime in the first place.
The ministry supports this vision through frontline program initiatives including:
Community Safety
Providing Frontline Policing Services (Ontario Provincial Police)
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) delivers provincial, First Nations and municipal policing services. The OPP has a unique mandate among police services, providing both provincial policing and policing services to municipalities. Responsibilities include policing provincial highways, waterways and snowmobile trails; conducting province wide criminal investigation in areas such as child pornography, drug enforcement and organized crime; and providing specialized services and support. Working closely with Emergency Management Ontario, and other agencies and ministries, the OPP contributes to the ministry's emergency plan. In support of the province's anti-terrorism and emergency and disaster management strategy, the OPP's Hate Crime/Extremism Unit combats incidents of hate crime and criminal extremism in Ontario and the Provincial Emergency Response Team responds to any high level emergency.
Promoting and Supporting Excellence in Policing (Policing Services Division)
The ministry's Policing Services Division (PSD) supports the development of innovative crime prevention and law enforcement policies, strategies and standards. It is responsible for the ongoing development and improvement of policing throughout the province. It sets out and monitors the regulatory framework for all police services and supports them with training, advice, policy and program tools. By providing effective training, professional standards, policies, guidance and assistance to police services and police services boards, the ministry is ensuring that Ontario is protected by a world-class law enforcement network. PSD administers First Nations policing transfer payments and contract negotiations. Additionally, PSD supports the development of community safety initiatives, funding program for 2,000 officers (Community Policing Partnership & 1,000 Officers) criminal intelligence services and licensing of the private security industry, as well as managing/administering the Major Case Management system.
Providing Programs and Services that Enhance Public Safety Across Ontario (Policy and Public Safety Programs Division)
This division provides public safety programs that contribute to the protection of life, property and justice through the Office of the Fire Marshal, Office of the Chief Coroner and the Centre of Forensic Sciences.
Enhancing Emergency Management in Ontario (Emergency Management Division)
This division promotes, develops and implements effective emergency management programs throughout Ontario and provides leadership to all facets of the government's emergency management programs through the Office of Commissioner of Community Safety and Emergency Management Ontario.
Correctional Services
The mandate of Correctional Services is to supervise the detention and release of adult inmates, parolees, those on conditional sentences and probationers, and to create an environment in which they may achieve changes in attitude and behaviour by providing training, rehabilitative treatment and services designed to provide opportunities for successful personal and social adjustment in the community.
Managing a secure and effective institutional system that protects community safety and holds offenders accountable while promoting and supporting excellence in corrections (Adult Institutional Services Division)
Ontario's adult correctional system provides custody and rehabilitative programs for adult offenders serving sentences of up to two years less a day. The province's jails and detention centres also hold persons who are remanded by the courts to await trial, sentencing or other proceedings.
In carrying out its responsibilities, the division sets and monitors performance measures and standards for operating correctional facilities, delivers correctional programs and manages staff performance. It supports professionalism through the delivery of training, advice and tools.
In addition, the ministry is working collaboratively with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care on the enhancement of community mental health programs and services to divert mentally ill persons who inappropriately enter the criminal justice system.
Managing a system that supervises offenders in the community to protect the public and victims (Adult Community Corrections Division)
This division holds adult offenders who are serving their sentences in the community (either on probation, Ontario Parole or conditional sentence) responsible and accountable, and aims to lower the re-offending rate through effective correctional programming and rehabilitative treatment programs. The emphasis is on comprehensive assessment, assignment to appropriate levels of supervision, provision of focused programs, enforcement and intensive supervision for higher-risk offenders.
Supervising parole (Ontario Parole and Earned Release Board)
Parole is considered a privilege that must be earned - not a right. In making parole decisions, public safety is the top priority. Ontario Parole and Earned Release Board members, who are professionals from the community, consider input from victims of crime in making independent, fair and objective decisions.
Ministry Administration, Policy Development And Technology Services (Corporate Planning & Services, Organizational Effectiveness, Policy and Public Safety Programs and Justice Technology Services Divisions)
The ministry's core businesses are supported by corporate services that provide leadership, direction and planning. Ministry administration activities include the Minister's Office, Deputy Minister's Office, Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, Communications Branch, Legal Services Branch, Business and Financial Planning Branch, Human Resources Branch, and the Facilities, Emergency Management and Security Branch. The program also shares justice sector services for freedom of information, French language services, and for audit and quality assurance.
The ministry has established and is committed to "Developing Healthy, Diverse and Effective Workplaces" as a business priority. To ensure that this priority is effectively addressed, the ministry has established a new Organizational Effectiveness Division, with a new Assistant Deputy Minister reporting dually to the Commissioner of Correctional Services and the Deputy Minister. The new division will lead the Anti-Racism Systemic Change Initiative (now known as the Human Rights Systemic Change Initiative) to improve health and diversity in our working environments and to implement change plans responding to issues of discrimination, racism and sexism in all ministry workplaces, with a particular focus in Corrections.
The Corrections and Community Safety Policy Branch coordinates the ministry's policy planning initiatives, and provides strategic policy advice on corrections and community safety related issues.
Justice Technology Services Division develops new technology solutions, provides business application support, delivers strategic advice and service management while ensuring controllership for Information Management and Information Technology services, products and resources in the Justice Sector (Ministry of the Attorney General, Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services) and their external partners.
The ministry realigned its organizational structure effective December 1, 2006 to focus its resources and achieve its mandate to serve the province's diverse communities to help keep Ontario safe.
These changes are designed to achieve four specific goals:
Under the new structure, the new Commissioner of Community Safety has responsibility for Emergency Management Ontario with other public safety functions including the Office of the Fire Marshal, Office of the Chief Coroner and Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario.
A new ADM position has also been created to support both the Deputy Minister and the Commissioner of Community Safety. The ADM is responsible for the Ontario Police College, Police Support Services, Private Investigators and Security Guards, the Centre of Forensic Sciences, Animal Welfare and Major Case Management, plus a new unit, External Relations, which reports jointly to the ADM and Commissioner of Community Safety. The ministry organizational chart shows the structure of the realigned ministry.
Advisory and Adjudicative Agencies, Boards and Commissions make communities safer by providing independent oversight and adjudicative services that protect the interest of the public.
The Ontario Parole and Earned Release Board (OPERB) has legislative authority to grant supervised conditional release to sentenced adult offenders serving less than two years in Ontario provincial correctional institutions.
OPERB is responsible for making decisions on offender applications for early release, including parole and unescorted temporary absence decisions over 72 hours. The board meets its primary goal of protecting the public by releasing only those offenders considered to be a manageable risk. The board may impose special conditions on any release granted.
The commission has general enforcement authority under the Police Services Act with respect to police services in Ontario. It may conduct disciplinary appeals, inquiries and investigations, and it may make recommendations to the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
The commission provides conciliation and mediation-arbitration services to assist police associations and police services boards in the resolution of disputes arising out of contract negotiations and the administration of their collective agreements.
This fund distributes scholarships for post-secondary education to the spouses and children of public safety officers who have died in the line of duty.
The board, under the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) Act, provides the public with an opportunity to appeal compliance orders and animal removals made by inspectors and agents of the OSPCA.
The Fire Marshal's Public Fire Safety Council, established in 1993, promotes fire prevention and public education through sponsorships and partnerships with various groups and individuals with an interest in public safety. The council comprises representatives of the fire service, industry and the public.
With the introduction of the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997, the council was officially recognized as a corporation without share capital. Working at arm's length from government, the council forms partnerships, raises and distributes funds, and endorses programs and products necessary to further the development of Ontario as a fire-safe community.
The Fire Safety Commission is an adjudicative agency that considers appeals and applications related to specific matters identified under the authority of the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997, (FPPA) and the Ontario Fire Code (OFC). The commission provides an avenue of appeal for persons who wish to dispute an inspection order served under the authority of the FPPA or by specific matters prescribed in the OFC. The commission may also consider an application made by a fire official within the discretionary powers provided under the FPPA. The commission conducts hearings to obtain a full and fair disclosure of facts relating to cases, and then decides on the dispute or application.
| Expenditure | 2007-08 (Estimate) $ |
2006-07 (Interim Actual) $ |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario Police Arbitration Commission< | 462,900 | 419,900 |
| Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services | 1,685,200 | 1,455,000 |
| Ontario Parole and Earned Release Board | 2,931,900 | 2,113,900 |
| Sub-total, Vote 7 (Agencies, Boards and Commissions | 5,080,000 | 3,988,800 |
| Animal Care Review Board* | 93,000 | 60,000 |
| Fire Marshal's Public Fire Safety Council* | 23,000 | 28,000 |
| Fire Safety Commission* | 12,000 | 5,538 |
| Public Safety Officers' Survivors Scholarship Fund* | 200,000 | 150,000 |
| Total | 5,408,000 | 4,232,338 |
Figures include statutory appropriations.
* Funding for these Agencies, Boards and Commissions is provided through Policing Services and Policy and Public Safety Programs appropriations.
The ministry's investment priorities in 2007/08:
Table 1: Ministry Planned Expenditures 2007/08 ($M)
| Operating | 1,887.3 |
| Capital | 51.8 |
| Total | 1,939.1 |
Note: Ministry's planned expenditures are net of statutory appropriations and special warrants.
Table 2: Operating and Capital Summary by Vote
The mandate of the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services is to ensure that Ontario's communities are supported and protected by law enforcement and that public safety and correctional systems are safe, secure, effective, efficient and accountable. The ministry has a wide range of responsibilities which include frontline policing; establishing and ensuring policing standards and police oversight services; coordinating public safety initiatives, forensic/coroners' services, fire investigation/prevention and emergency preparedness and response; supervision and rehabilitation of adult offenders in correctional institutions and probation and parole offices and providing IT service.
| Vote | Estimates 2007/08 $ | Changes from Estimates 2006/07 $ | % | Estimates 2006/07* $ | Interim Actuals 2006/07* $ | Actuals 2005/06 $ |
| Operating & Capital Ministry Administration Program Policing Service Program Ontario Provincial Police Correctional Service Program Justice Technology Services Program Agencies, Boards & Commissions Policy & Public Safety Programs Division Emergency Management Division |
136,253,4000 150,975,5000 790,519,800 715,094,400 55,157,800 5,079,000 76,458,400 9,526,300 |
1,753,100 13,576,900 5,708,300 38,174,700 1,401,400 (61,200) (2,780,100) (550,600) |
1.3 9.9 0.7 5.6 2.6 (1.2) (3.5) (5.5) |
134,500,300 137,398,600 784,811,500 676,919,700 53,756,400 5,140,200 79,238,500 10,076,900 |
133,702,700 131,687,200 813,923,300 670,661,800 51,835,500 3,923,800 78,321,100 10,426,200 |
106,690,986 108,447,672 740,254,234 655,143,286 52,435,336 3,106,011 74,544,029 8,520,838 |
| Total Including Special Warrants | 1,939,064,600 | 57,222,500 | 3.0 | 1,881,842,100 | 1,894,481,600 | 1,749,142,392 |
| Less Special Warrants | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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Special Warrants Statutory Appropriations Consolidations |
131,540 (12,654,400) |
15,602 (977,800) |
13.5 8.4 |
115,938 (11,676,600) |
12,417,300 (11,676,600) |
11,314,821 (10,928,623) |
| Ministry Total Operating and Capital | 1,926,541,740 | 56,260,302 | 3.0 | 1,870,281,438 | 1,895,222,300 | 1,749,528,590 |
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Assets Ministry Administrative Program Policing Services Program Ontario Provincial Police Correctional Services Program Justice Technology Services Program Agencies, Boards and Commissions Policy and Public Safety Programs Division Emergency Management Division |
2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 |
- - - - - - - - |
- - - - - - - - |
2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 |
- - - - - - - - |
- - - - - - - - |
| Total Assets to be Voted | 16,000 | - | - | 16,000 | - | - |
* Estimates for the previous fiscal year are re-stated to reflect any changes in ministry organization and/or program structure. Interim actuals reflect the numbers presented in the Ontario Budget.
2005/06 Annual Report
The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services serves the province's diverse communities to help keep Ontario safe through two key areas of focus:
Community Safety
Correctional Services
Key Achievements Towards Meeting Government Commitments
| Commitment | Achievements |
|---|---|
| Additional Resources To Ontario's Police Intelligence Services |
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| Enhanced Anti-Guns And Gangs Violence Strategy $51-million package that includes additional resources for police, more officers on the street, more prosecutors and dedicated major crime courts |
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| Domestic Violence - Monitoring Devices Use monitoring devices in appropriate cases. Strongly oppose further release of accused abusers who violate bail conditions |
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| Domestic Violence - Risk Assessments of Accused Abusers Ensure that police conduct risk assessments of accused abusers on their first charge |
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| Equip or Firefighters with new Safety Technology Help fire services purchase state-of-the-art thermal imaging equipment that permits firefighters to locate victims in smoke and darkness within seconds |
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| Expand the Number of Hate Crime Police Units |
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| Independent Audit of the Fire Marshal's Office Review the state of fire services through an independent audit of the Fire Marshal's Office |
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| 100 Additional Parole and Probation Officers |
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| 1,000 Officers Partnership Program |
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| Protecting Kids Against Internet Stalkers |
Project P Enhancement: OPP's Child Pornography and E-crime Section are enhanced by:
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Note: 2005/06 numbers have been restated from prior year to reflect database update.
To help make Ontario's communities stronger and safer, legislation was passed to make it mandatory for hospitals to report to police whenever they treat someone for a gunshot wound. The ministry also introduced legislation that would:
| Operating | Capital | Staff Strength (as of March 31, 2006) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry Actual Expenditures ($M) 2005/06 | 1,714.5 | 31.0 | 15,637.6 |
Note: Ministry's planned expenditures are net of statutory appropriations, consolidations and special warrants.
The ministry has made the following significant achievements in 2006/07 to protect and prepare our communities and supports the government's commitments of 'Stronger, Safer Communities':
Accelerated the roll-out of the Safer Communities 1,000 Officers Partnership Program
Commenced implementation of the government's Enhanced Anti-Guns and Gangs Violence Strategy
Developed and implemented anti-violence strategies in Toronto specific to the communities each police division serves
Hired 80 of the 100 Probation and Parole (P&P) Officers to meet the government's commitment
Protected children against internet sexual abuse and exploitation
Enhanced the capability of municipal police services to investigate hate crimes and extremism
Invested in new community safety initiatives
Enhanced emergency preparedness and response throughout the province
Proclaimed legislation to enhance community safety and protect our communities
Supported numerous community safety programs provided by police services, OPP, agencies and stakeholders
Announced the Intermittent Community Work Program
Domestic Violence Monitoring Devices
| Ministry Actual Expenditures ($M) 2006/07 | |
|---|---|
| Operating | 1,844.8 |
| Capital | 38.0 |
| Staff Strength (as of March 31, 2007) | 16,214.7 |
Note: Ministry's planned expenditures are net of statutory appropriations, consolidations and special warrants. Based on interim outlook expenditures.
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