Index of Policing Initiatives - Search Results
British Columbia (19)
BC Policing and Community Safety Plan
The British Columbia Ministry of Justice’s BC Policing and Community Safety Plan (BCPCSP) seeks to set the direction, strategic framework, performance expectations and accountability mechanisms for...
Community Health Intervention Program
Approximately 70% of police calls in Delta relate to mental health, consuming significant police resources. There is increasing pressure for police to deal with issues of mental health, but most...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | intervention, mental health, community safety |
Community Safety Constable Program
Among the new policing models being developed by the Vancouver Police Department is the Community Safety Constable Program. The program creates a new tier of special constables to take on low-risk...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | peace officer, community constable, special constable |
Crime Reduction Rollout
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ‘E’ Division’s crime reduction strategy began in 2005 and has since expanded to every detachment in British Columbia (BC). Each detachment now has a crime reduction...
'E' Division Headquarters Relocation and Efficiency Review
In January 2013, Royal Canadian Mounted Police ‘E’ Division consolidated approximately 2700 employees from 25 separate locations throughout metro Vancouver, relocating them to one site in Surrey...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | efficiency, service delivery, organizational reform, cost reduction |
Evidence-Based Crime Reduction Strategy—Prolific Offender Management
In 2009, the West Vancouver Police Department developed an evidence-based crime reduction strategy to identify and apprehend the top 10 prolific offenders in West Vancouver, including the Capilano...
| Pillars: | New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | intelligence led-policing, crime reduction, crime prevention, mental health, prolific offenders, management |
Integration
For ten years, the Nelson Police Department and Nelson Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Detachment have integrated and shared a number of services, including a detention facility; a BAC...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | shared services, integrated services, cost sharing |
Memorandum of Understanding for Homicide Investigations
Given that homicides are uncommon in Oak Bay, the Oak Bay Police Department faces challenges in ensuring that investigators' and officers' skills in homicide investigation are kept up to date. When...
| Pillars: | New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | memorandum of understanding, shared services, cost containment, homicide |
Operational Review
The Vancouver Police Department is an organization of 2,000 people with a budget of $200 million. Under-resourced and dealing with the impact of an economic downturn, the department underwent an...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | review, resource, civilianization, overtime, patrol deployment |
Rationalized Integration
The Saanich Police Department plans to work with the Victoria Police Department to implement an integrated approach to computer forensic analysis. With rationalized integration, the two departments...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | forensic analysis, technology, integration, cost sharing |
Regional Domestic Violence Unit
The Saanich Police Department participates in a Regional Domestic Violence Unit that takes a multidisciplinary approach to high-risk domestic violence situations across the Capital Regional District...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | domestic violence, integrated unit, regional unit, partnership |
Review of Integrated Units
In 2012, the New Westminster Police Department conducted a review of its participation in integrated units. The review looked at the value for money of participating in these units and whether a...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | review, integrated unit |
Service Standards Investigative Guides
Developed in 2006, Royal Canadian Mounted Police ‘E’ Division’s Service Standards Investigative Guides ensure compliance with approved investigative standards and provide practical advice at all...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services, Efficiencies within the Justice System |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | oversight, investigation |
Stratified Model for Accountability, Response and Targeting, Tactical Action Group
In an effort to provide smarter and more efficient policing, the Port Moody Police Department began an internal information-sharing initiative in September 2012. The initiative uses police statistics...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | intelligence-led policing, team, management, crime analysis, community safety |
Surrey Detachment Online Reporting Project
The Surrey Detachment Online Reporting Project was initiated as a pilot project in January 2014 to determine the value and effectiveness of online software for crime reporting by the public. The...
| Pillars: | New Models of Community Safety, Efficiencies within the Justice System |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | online reporting, technology |
Vancouver Assertive Community Treatment Team
The Vancouver Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team was created in 2011 to provide better care to those who suffer from significant mental illness and substance abuse problems and are frequent...
| Pillars: | New Models of Community Safety, Police Interaction with Individuals Living with Mental Illness |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | mental health, partnership, integrated team |
Victoria Integrated Community Outreach Team
The Victoria Police Department established the Victoria Integrated Community Outreach Team (VICOT) in 2007 to provide intensive support to individuals living with persistent mental illness who face...
| Pillars: | Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | community engagement, mental health, substance abuse, integrated team, crime prevention |
Youth for Change and Inclusion
Over the last nine years, the Victoria Police Department has run the Youth for Change and Inclusion (YCI) program which brings together youth from a variety of ethnic, racial, religious and cultural...
| Pillars: | New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | youth, crime prevention, community engagement, education, diversity |
Youth Gang Prevention Strategies
The Delta Police Department is developing youth gang prevention strategies to prevent and discourage youth involvement in gangs, bullying and extortion. The department will work with community...
| Pillars: | New Models of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Keywords: | youth, crime prevention, community partnership |
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