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Table of Contents:

PART I: PUBLISHED RESULTS-BASED PLAN 2008-09

Ministry Overview

• Ministry Vision, Mission/Mandate, Key Priorities & Results
• Ministry Activities
• Highlights of Achievements
• Organization Chart
• Legislation
• Agencies, Boards and Commissions

Ministry Financial Information

• Table 1: Ministry Planned Expenditures 2008/09
• Table 2: Operating and Capital Summary by Vote

Appendix I: Annual Report 2008-09

• 2007/08 Annual Report
• Table 1: Ministry Expenditures 2007/08

Results-based Plan Briefing Book 2008/09

Ministry Vision, Mission/Mandate

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 ministry's Directional Statement is "serving all of Ontario's diverse communities to keep our province safe." The ministry strives to meet this commitment through high performance policing, strong enforcement, leading edge scientific and technological investigative work, emergency management expertise, community safety preparedness and effective offender supervision and rehabilitation.

The mandate of the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS) is to ensure that all of Ontario's diverse communities are safe, 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 and private security standards
• Providing police oversight services
• Overseeing municipal fire protection services
• Coordinating community safety initiatives, animal welfare, forensic and coroner's services, fire investigation/prevention and emergency preparedness and response
and,
• Supervising and positively influencing the rehabilitation of adult offenders in correctional institutions and in the community.

The ministry, working through the Public Safety Division and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), is improving the protection of victims, children and other marginalized Ontarians through assertive action against violent crime and activities that fund crime.

Working through Emergency Planning and Management, the ministry is ensuring community emergency preparedness and response capabilities throughout the province and supporting municipal fire services in Ontario's communities.

Correctional Services is committed to enhancing community safety through effective supervision, care, custody and intervention, influencing the behavioural change and re-integration of offenders into communities as productive members of society.

Working with our Justice Sector partners, the Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG) and the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS), the ministry is committed to transforming the way justice works for the people of Ontario by building a more responsive and efficient justice system.

Key Priorities & Results

Every family deserves to feel secure in their own home and on the streets of their community. The Ontario government's approach to personal and community security is to be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. The ministry is dedicated to keeping Ontario's diverse communities safe by focusing on five key goals:

1. Deliver services and set standards, policies, and guidelines in policing, corrections and public safety to keep Ontario's communities safe.
• Continue to work with our justice sector partners MAG and MCYS regarding the operation of the Provincial Operations Centre (POC) and guns and gangs-related initiatives, the upfront Justice strategy and other policy, program and legislative horizontal initiatives that support ministry and government priorities and public confidence in the justice system.
• Implement the recommendations of the Goudge inquiry and their implications for the death investigation system.
• Ensure police are equipped with the tools to enforce traffic safety measures and help keep dangerous drivers off the road.
• Introduce animal welfare legislation that includes the regulation of zoos.
• In addition to effectively managing the adult institutional corrections population, reduce re-offending through early intervention, intensive supervision, enforcement, diversion and rehabilitation and work with the federal government on a protocol on release of high risk offenders into Ontario.
2. Contribute to an effective, efficient and seamless justice system that serves all of Ontario's diverse communities.
• Continue to manage capacity pressures in correctional institutions and address remand issues through an operational capacity review, infrastructure initiatives and leading a national study of changing correctional populations.
3. Deliver responsive programs and services that meet the unique needs of Ontario's diverse communities.
• Continue to implement the recommendations of the Hate Crimes Community Working Group's report.
• Continue to support our aging population through programs such as Crime Stoppers, Senior Busters and Phone Busters.
• Provide public education regarding fire safety for newcomer communities.
4. Work with Aboriginal communities to address their community safety service delivery needs and develop harmonious and mutually respectful relationships.
• Continue to work with the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs to implement Justice Linden's recommendations, address the Mushkegowuk human rights complaint, recommendations that come out of the Kashechewan inquest and work to improve the delivery of community safety services in Aboriginal communities.
5. Lead and promote a healthy, diverse and engaged workforce and organization that reflects the ministry's values and the communities we serve.
• Ensure that, through the work of our Organizational Effectiveness Division, the remaining Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario Orders are implemented.
• Continue to identify and remove systemic barriers to equity and inclusion and ensure that the ministry's outreach, recruitment, retention and promotion systems are inclusive and representative of Ontario's diversity.
• Continue efforts to increase employee engagement.

Key Performance Measures

The ministry is protecting and preparing our communities for Ontario's safe future by focusing on the following performance measures:

• The rate of traffic fatalities (reported in a calendar year) in areas of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) jurisdiction per 10,000 vehicles registered was 0.64 in 2007. The OPP is committed to maintaining the rate of traffic fatalities in OPP jurisdictions at or below the three-year provincial average. The 2008 target, based on the 2005-2007 average, is 0.64.
• The clearance rate for violent crimes in Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) jurisdictions was 89.61 per cent in 2007. The OPP is committed to maintaining clearance rate for violent crimes in OPP jurisdictions at or above the three-year provincial average. The 2008 target, based on the 2005-2007 average, is 90.51 per cent.
• The rate of injuries in preventable structure fires per million population (based on five-year rolling average) was reduced from the baseline of 73.1 in 2002 to 57.6 in 2006. In 2008, the ministry is committed to maintaining the rate at or below the five-year rolling average of 58.5 injuries per million population. (Due to delay in reporting from municipalities, the ministry has introduced a lag of one year when reporting on this measure to ensure availability of data. As a result, the 2008 report back will reflect 2007 data. Target of 58.5 injuries in preventable structure fires per million population is based on 2002-2006 five-year average.)

Ministry Activities

Highlights of Achievements

The ministry has achieved much in 2007/08 to further protect Ontario communities and to support the government's commitment of 'Stronger, Safer Communities'. Over the course of the year, the ministry has:

• Completed hiring 1,000 officers under the $37.1M Safer Communities 1,000 Officers Partnership Program
• Approved 200 additional officers for the OPP
• Expanded the province's capability to combat organized crime
• Continued to support and expand anti-violence initiatives
• Invested in initiatives designed to combat hate crimes and extremism
• Provided protection for children against internet sexual abuse and exploitation
• Improved officer safety through the introduction of more visible patrol vehicles
• Enhanced traffic safety on Ontario roadways
• Continued support for Aboriginal communities
• Enhanced emergency preparedness and response capabilities
• Continued to strengthen correctional programs and services
• Continued to support a wide range of initiatives that help keep Ontario's communities safe
• Promoted healthier and more diverse ministry workplaces
• Improved provision for animal welfare
• Introduced legislation to strengthen the Ontario Sex Offender Registry
• Proclaimed a new law that sets stricter standards for the private security industry
• Proclaimed legislation to better protect emergency workers from the risks of being exposed to blood-borne illnesses on the job

Details of the above achievements are provided in Appendix I.

Organization Chart

The ministry realigned its organizational structure effective January 7, 2008 to focus its resources and achieve its mandate to serve all of Ontario's diverse communities to keep our province safe.

These changes are designed to consolidate operational areas under two Deputy Ministers: Emergency Planning and Management and, Community Safety and Correctional Services to better balance responsibilities and accountabilities.

Under the new structure, the new Deputy Minister of Emergency Planning and Management provides leadership to all facets of the government's emergency programs and has responsibility for Emergency Management Ontario, Office of the Fire Marshal and the Office of the Chief Coroner. The Deputy Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services has responsibility for the Public Safety Division, Correctional Services Program and Ontario Provincial Police. Both Deputy Ministers are supported by the corporate services functions of the ministry.

The ministry organizational chart shows the structure of the realigned ministry.

Organization Chart (PDF)

Legislation Administered by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

• Ammunition Regulation Act

Regulates the sale of ammunition. The Act requires that purchasers be a minimum of 18 years old and requires that businesses keep certain records.

• Anatomy Act

Allows the General Inspector (Chief Coroner) to send bodies, which are donated or unclaimed, to universities or colleges for educational purposes.

• Christopher's Law (Sex Offender Registry), 2000

Requires sex offenders who are residents of Ontario to register with police on an annual basis and any time they change their address. The ministry is required to maintain the registry and provide access to the police.

• Coroners Act

Provides for investigation into circumstances surrounding a death. The Act sets out the circumstances under which an inquest will be held and the procedures for holding an inquest.

• Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act

Addresses both emergency preparedness and emergency response at municipal and provincial levels. The Act requires municipalities and ministries to develop emergency programs and formulate emergency plans.

• Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997

This Act governs fire safety in Ontario and sets fire protection requirements for municipalities. The Act establishes the Office of the Fire Marshal to oversee the operation of fire departments.

• Firefighters' Memorial Day Act, 2000

Establishes the first Sunday in October as Firefighters' Memorial Day.

• Imitation Firearms Regulation Act, 2000

Regulates the sale and other transfers of imitation firearms, such as starter pistols and deactivated firearms.

• Lightning Rods Act

Sets standards for the installation and inspection of lightning rods.

• Mandatory Blood Testing Act, 2006

Enables certain classes of persons who have come into contact with the bodily substance of another to make an application for an order to have that person's blood tested for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C.

• Mandatory Gunshot Wounds Reporting Act, 2005

Requires hospitals that treat a person for gunshot wounds to disclose that fact to the local police.

• Ministry of Correctional Services Act

Establishes the legislative framework for correctional services in Ontario and governs matters relating to the detention and release from custody of adult inmates and young persons. This Act provides for the establishment and operation of probation services and other community supervision services, including services for young persons under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (This function has been transferred to the Ministry of Children and Youth Services).

• Ministry of the Solicitor General Act

Establishes the Ministry of the Solicitor General. Pursuant to Order in Council 497/2004, the powers assigned to the Solicitor General were transferred to the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

• Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act

Sets out inspection, enforcement and appeal procedures for prevention of cruelty to animals and dealing with animals in distress. The Act creates the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Animal Care Review Board.

• Police Services Act

Provides the legislative framework for policing in Ontario. This Act sets out requirements for municipalities to decide method of providing adequate and effective policing in their communities.

• Private Security and Investigative Services Act, 2005

This Act regulates private investigators and security guards. The Act repealed the Private Investigators and Security Guards Act.

• Public Works Protection Act

Provides for the appointment and powers of guards to protect a "public work". Public work includes any provincial or municipal building, or any building designated by Cabinet.

Advisory and Adjudicative Agencies, Boards and Commissions

Advisory and Adjudicative Agencies, Boards and Commissions make communities safer by providing independent oversight and adjudicative services that protect the interest of the public.

Ontario Parole and Earned Release Board (Adjudicative)

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.

Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services (Adjudicative)

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.

Ontario Police Arbitration Commission (Adjudicative)

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.

Constable Joe MacDonald Public Safety Officers' Survivors Scholarship Fund (Advisory)

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.

Animal Care Review Board (Adjudicative)

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.

Fire Marshal's Public Fire Safety Council (Advisory)

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.

Fire Safety Commission (Adjudicative)

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.

Financial Summary of Advisory and Adjudicative Agencies, Boards and Commissions

Figures include statutory appropriations.

^* Funding for these Agencies, Boards and Commissions is provided through the Public Safety Division and Emergency Planning and Management Division appropriations.

Ministry Financial Information

The ministry's investment in 2008/09 to keep Ontarians safe and to support the government's commitment of "Stronger, Safer Communities":

• OPP - 41.2 per cent
• Correctional Services - 35.6 per cent
• Public Safety - 9 per cent
• Emergency Planning and Management - 3.3 per cent
• Other Services - 10.9 per cent

Note: Ministry's Investment in Priorities includes consolidations.

Table 1: Ministry Planned Expenditures 2008/09 ($M)

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 all of Ontario's diverse communities are safe, 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 and private security standards and providing police oversight services, coordinating community safety initiatives, animal welfare, forensic and coroner's services, fire investigation/prevention, emergency planning and management; and, supervising and rehabilitating adult offenders in correctional institutions and probation and parole offices and providing Information Technology services.

*2007/08 Estimates and 2006/07 actuals are re-stated to reflect any changes in ministry organization and/or program structure. Interim actuals reflect the numbers presented in the Ontario Budget.

For additional financial information, see:

Printed Estimates:

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/budget/estimates/2008-09/volume1/mcscs.html

Public Accounts:

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/budget/paccts

Budget:

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/budget/ontariobudgets/2008

APPENDIX I: ANNUAL REPORT 2007-08

2007/08 Annual Report

The ministry has achieved much in 2007/08 to further protect Ontario communities and to support the government's commitment of 'Stronger, Safer Communities'. Over the course of the year, the ministry has:

Completed hiring 1,000 officers under the $37.1M Safer Communities 1,000 Officers Partnership Program

• Of the 1,000 officers, 500 are dedicated to community policing while the other officers are deployed in priority areas including: youth crime, dangerous offenders, guns and gangs, organized crime (particularly marijuana grow-ops,) domestic violence and on-line crimes against children.

Approved 200 additional officers for the OPP

• During the year, the OPP received funding approval to hire 200 officers and civilian staff. In 2007/08, 72 officers and seven civilian staff were hired. The remainder will be hired in 2008/09.
• >The new officers and staff will be assigned to enhance several priority initiatives, including organized crime, gun violence, Aboriginal policing programs, and traffic safety initiatives to target speeding, impaired and aggressive driving, and to increase rapid clearance of highways.

Expanded the province's capability to combat organized crime

• The ministry supported a pilot project in Stratford that targets methamphetamine (crystal meth) production and distribution through enhanced enforcement, education awareness and treatment.
• The Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM) received $1.3M in 2007/08 to establish a provincial advisory group on marijuana grow operations and to enhance the OFM's capacity to investigate fires of provincial interest.

Continued to support and expand anti-violence initiatives

• In June 2007, the Premier announced an expansion of Toronto's successful anti-violence intervention strategy to large urban areas across the province to support police services.
• 50 of the 200 new OPP officers will be assigned to the Provincial Weapons Enforcement Unit. The new officers will be deployed in Kingston, Ottawa, Windsor, London, Sudbury, and Thunder Bay.
• Correctional Services has created a Security Threat Group Criminal Intelligence Unit. The new unit works closely with other law enforcement agencies to help identify, manage and monitor inmates who may pose a threat to the security of the institution, such as alleged gang members or terrorist suspects.

Invested in initiatives designed to combat hate crimes and extremism

• The $855,000 Safer and Vital Communities Grant for 2007/08 has been dedicated to projects that focus on addressing hate crimes and racism.
• The Hate Crime/Extremism Investigative Team has been given $200,000 to address hate motivated crimes and criminal extremism.
• The ministry developed a brochure for police officers entitled: "Responding to Hate Crimes: An Ontario Police Officer's Guide to Investigation and Prevention".
• The ministry also partnered with the Ontario Association of Crime Stoppers to produce a public awareness DVD "Hate Destroys Lives", which is being distributed to policing stakeholders.

Provided protection for children against internet sexual abuse and exploitation

• The provincial strategy provides $5M over two years to fund municipal and regional police officers to battle Internet crimes against children.
• Under the strategy, investigations are up by 41 per cent, arrests by 54 per cent and charges by 66 per cent over 2006/07.
• To help educate children to protect themselves on the Internet, the OPP partnered with youth television channel YTV to develop an Internet safety game. More than 60,000 children played the game in the two months following its launch on the YTV website.

Improved officer safety through the introduction of more visible patrol vehicles

• The OPP has introduced more than 500 of the new style black and white patrol cars to replace older cars. All of the new vehicles are equipped with red and blue light-emitting diode emergency lights, which add significantly to visibility and will improve officer and public safety.

Enhanced traffic safety on Ontario Roadways

• The OPP has improved traffic safety in Ontario by laying more charges, cracking down on commercial motor vehicle violations and targeting extreme speeders through enforcement of the Safer Roads for a Safer Ontario Act, 2007.

Continued support for Aboriginal communities

• Investments and resources continue to be committed to addressing recommendations made in the Ipperwash Inquiry report.
• The OPP worked with many communities and organizations to support a peaceful National Day of Action in 2007 and continues to monitor activities at the Douglas Creek land claim site.

Enhanced emergency preparedness and response capabilities

• Emergency Management Ontario (EMO) introduced a new Mobile Emergency Operations Centre that can be deployed quickly to support ministry and municipal response to disasters anywhere in the province.
• EMO achieved 100 per cent ministry compliance for the under the Essential Level Emergency Management requirements of the Emergency Management & Civil Protection Act. As well, the organization helped municipalities achieve 98 per cent compliance under the Act.
• The Joint Emergency Management Steering Committee has been expanded to include organizations representing all First Nations in Ontario with the objective of building local emergency management capabilities.

Continued to strengthen correctional programs and services

• The government's commitment to hire 100 additional probation and parole officers has been fulfilled with the hiring of the final 20 new officers.
• The ministry's operations centre for Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) checks has been expanded to allow it to respond to requests for criminal record checks from probation and parole offices as well as from institutions. Previously, probation and parole requests were handled by the OPP or local police services.
• An information line, known as 211, has been established to make Correctional, community services and directory for other government related programs accessible to all ministry staff as well as stakeholders in the community.
• A new computer-based application has been introduced to track an offender's involvement in correctional programming during both the institutional and community portions of his or her sentence. The new system allows staff to share information helps ensure continuity of programming for all offenders.
• The Intermittent Community Work Program that allows qualified offenders to serve their intermittent sentences by providing services in the community is now fully implemented at correctional facilities in central, western and eastern regions.

Continued to support a wide range of initiatives that help keep Ontario's communities safe

• The $4.5M Victim Safety Project is intended to improve services for victims of crime. The project also helps to prevent re-victimization by improving the tracking and monitoring of high-risk offenders and making sure victims are aware of impending releases.
• The Office of the Fire Marshal released a new edition of the Ontario Fire Code. The new code, which replaces the 1997 edition, was developed to promote greater flexibility in compliance and more uniform enforcement. As well, the code includes over 200 technical changes resulting from public consultations.

Promoted healthier and more diverse ministry workplaces

• In the 2007 Budget, the government committed $8M over two years to address long-standing systemic issues of racism and sexism and to promote healthier workplaces free from discrimination.
• An Organizational Effectiveness Division, staffed with approximately 32 human rights and diversity experts, has been established to lead the ministry through significant organizational change.
• The ministry has satisfied the majority of the Human Rights Tribunal Orders issued in relation to long-standing employee complaints and is aggressively pursuing remaining orders.

Improved provision for animal welfare

• The ministry increased annual funding for the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) to $500,000 to support inspector and agent training. As well, the ministry provided $100,000 in one-time funding for OSPCA agents to work with the ministry of Natural Resources to implement an interim zoo inspection plan.
• The ministry also provided the OSPCA with a new one-time capital grant of $5 million to allow the organization to upgrade its facilities and computer systems and to improve its services in northern communities.

LEGISLATION

Introduced legislation to strengthen the Ontario Sex Offender Registry

• If passed, the new legislation would ensure that more sex offenders are registered. The new legislation would strengthen the registration requirements to include offenders serving intermittent sentences, offenders released on unescorted temporary absence passes and persons deemed not criminally responsible upon their release from a mental health facility.

Proclaimed a new law that sets stricter standards for the private security industry

• The Private Security and Investigative Services Act includes new and stricter standards to better protect the public while improving professionalism within the industry. The act applies to security personnel and investigators and in-house security staff, such as those who work for retailers and at bars.

Proclaimed legislation to better protect emergency workers from the risks of being exposed to blood-borne illnesses on the job

• The Mandatory Blood Testing Act streamlines and shortens the process of ordering a blood sample from somebody who may have exposed an emergency worker or first responder to certain blood-bourne communicable diseases. The act reduces the time allowed to voluntarily provide a sample from seven days to two days and reduces the time it takes to obtain a mandatory blood sample from more than two months to less than three weeks.

Table 1: Ministry Expenditures

Note: Ministry's planned expenditures include statutory appropriations, consolidations and special warrants. Based on interim outlook expenditures.