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Quebec (33)

"Vulnérable" Web Documentary

To better equip Quebec police and public safety workers to intervene with individuals showing mental health problems, the École nationale de police du Québec (Quebec national police school) created a...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety, Police Interaction with Individuals Living with Mental Illness
Province: Quebec
Keywords: training, mental health, crisis intervention

Addressing Over-users of Health/Social and Police Services

Some individuals rely heavily on police, hospital and social services, entering the system over and over again and placing a drain on resources. Since 2009, the Repentigny Police Service has been...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crime prevention, mental health, community

Automated Licence Plate Reader System

In February 2011, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) began piloting the use of automated licence plate readers. This technology uses specialized cameras to identify licence plate...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: technology, license plate reader, traffic, missing persons

Automated Response System and Electronic Ticketing

In January 2012, to improve the triage of its service calls, the Roussillon Inter-municipal Police Service implemented a system whereby service calls are directly routed from callers to police patrol...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: technology, electronic ticketing, e-ticket

Charging Fees for Police Services

The Sûreté du Québec provides select policing services that incur significant overtime costs. These services are not included in regulations governing the services that municipal police services and...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: cost recovery

Civilianization

Since 2004, the Saint-Eustache Police Service has civilianized certain positions.

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: civilianization

Civilianization

The Sûreté du Québec has launched an initiative to assign civilians to non-core policing functions wherever possible (e.g., photo radar duties), allowing officers to concentrate on frontline police...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: civilianization

Community Officers

Since 2007, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal has employed civilian community officers in nine community police stations, to improve community safety and ease the burden on police.

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: community officers, community engagement, civilianization, community safety

Cooperation with School Board Concerning Simple Drug Possession

Dealing with simple drug possession cases in schools can be a drain on police resources. Since 2002, the Repentigny Police Service has saved resources by having high schools in Repentigny deal...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: youth, drugs, school

Cost Recovery Initiative for Policing at ‘For-Profit’ Events

Repentigny police presence and services were being provided for free at for-profit events. This led to high police overtime costs. Since 2007, in a cost-recovery initiative, the Repentigny Police...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: cost recovery, commercialization, service fees

Crisis Intervention Response Patrol Officers

It is estimated that the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) responds to more than 33,000 service calls per year (about 100 calls per day) regarding individuals dealing with a serious...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety, Police Interaction with Individuals Living with Mental Illness
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crisis situation, emergency response, mental health, training

Doing Things Better

In 2007, the Service de police de la Ville de Québec (SPVQ) adopted an initiative called “Doing Things Better” to improve various practices and processes. This initiative includes the following...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: human resources, management, technology, training, processes

Electronic Ticketing System

In 2009, the Lévis Police Service piloted a program to issue and process tickets electronically. This initiative, which uses an electronic database and electronic instruments to issue tickets, was...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: technology, electronic ticketing, e-ticket

Electronic Ticketing System

In a gradual rollout beginning in 2007, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) traffic division has replaced its paper-based ticketing system with an electronic ticketing system. The...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, Efficiencies within the Justice System
Province: Quebec
Keywords: electronic ticketing, technology, e-ticket

Get in Gear Without Veering off the Road

“Get in Gear Without Veering off the Road” is a road safety information campaign. The campaign started in spring 2012 and targets young drivers and passengers aged 16 to 24. It encourages the...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: information campaign, youth, prevention, road safety, accidents

Group to Combat Emerging Crime Phenomena

In 2007, as a pilot project, the Repentigny Police Service created a group within the police service to focus on emerging criminal groups and new crime phenomena. The group meets on an occasional...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: emerging crime, organized crime, crime prevention, intelligence, gangs

Incident Report Centre

In 2008, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) introduced the Incident Report Centre, a call centre for incident reporting. Since 2012, for certain offences where there is no suspect...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: incident reporting, call centre, civilianization

Interventions for Mentally Ill Individuals under Law P-38

Police are increasingly called upon to intervene in situations where people with mental health issues are a threat to themselves or others, as discussed in Law P-38 (An Act Respecting the Protection...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: service referrals, mental health, social services

Mobile Reference and Intervention Team for Homeless Individuals

To address the large number of service calls involving homeless individuals, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) implemented the Mobile Reference and Intervention Team for Homeless...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crime prevention, mental health, homeless, homelessness, services referrals, intervention

MOBILIS

From 2008 to 2011, the Longueuil Police Service and the Centre jeunesse de la Montérégie (Montérégie youth centre) undertook an initiative to address juvenile prostitution linked to street gangs...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crime prevention, community partnership, sex trade, prostitution, gangs, street-involved youth, youth at risk, sexual violence, service referrals

Online Reporting

In operation since 2013, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) online reporting service allows citizens to file police reports online for certain offences against property, such as...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: online reporting, technology

Patrols in Parks and on Cycling Trails

Since 2006, the Blainville Police Service has used police cadets to patrol the Blainville municipality’s green spaces and its network of cycling trails.

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crime prevention, civilianization, cadet, park, patrol

Police Officer Assigned to Seniors

The Repentigny Police Service has witnessed an increase in incidents involving senior citizens. In 2009–10, there was a 30% increase in cases involving seniors. In response to this trend, the...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: seniors, senior citizens, community engagement

Police Services Organizational Reform

In 2001, Quebec’s Ministry of Public Security (Ministère de la Sécurité Publique) led an important organizational reform of the policing structure in the province. The Ministry has made many...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: review, organizational reform, levels of service

Replacement of Police Cars with More Ecologically Friendly Vehicles

In an effort to reduce fuel and purchase costs for vehicles, in 2011, the Sûreté du Québec began to replace its unmarked police cars with more ecologically friendly vehicles. Six-cylinder vehicles...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: vehicle replacement, eco-friendly, cost reduction, cars, fuel efficiency

Road Safety Campaign

Since 2006, the Blainville Police Service has run an annual road safety campaign to encourage safer driving. This campaign is based on data from Quebec’s provincial public automobile insurance agency...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: road safety, information campaign, prevention, accidents

Sécuri-Parc

In 2011, the Châteauguay Police Service, through a partnership with the Sureté du Québec, implemented the Sécuri-Parc initiative to ensure safety in the Beauharnois-Valleyfield Regional...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crime prevention, civilianization, cadet, community safety, patrol, park

Sharing Resources Among Police Services

The Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Police Service has found innovative ways to save costs by sharing its resources with other police services for a fee. Rather than pay user fees for time at a firing...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services
Province: Quebec
Keywords: resource sharing

Social Worker

In 2010, the Terrebonne Police Service hired a social worker to assist in making appropriate referrals to services and institutions. The social worker helps with recurring cases, strengthens...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: mental health, social services, services referrals, sexual violence, victim support

Software to Manage Complaints/Requests from Citizens

In fall 2012, the Repentigny Police Service established a computerized follow-up system to deal with non-emergency calls from citizens and ensure that customer service is efficient and responsive...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: technology, client service

Stabilized Funding for Quebec’s National Police School

This initiative has established ongoing, stabilized funding for Quebec’s national police school (l’École Nationale de Police du Québec) by imposing a 1% annual contribution from the payroll of all...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: funding, payroll, education

Support Team for Psychosocial Emergencies

In June 2012, through interagency collaboration, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal created an "Équipe de soutien aux urgences psychosociales", (Support Team for Psychosocial Emergencies...

Pillars: New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: mental health, crime prevention, services referrals, multidisciplinary team

Urban Brigade

In 2009, the Urban Brigade was established within an operational initiative which sought to provide a management framework for festive events and crowd control, while improving efficiency in the...

Pillars: Efficiencies within Police Services, New Models of Community Safety
Province: Quebec
Keywords: crowd control, protests, event management, riot
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