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Implement crime prevention initiatives, focusing on violent crime and identified community crime trends, and respond effectively to citizen calls for service.

1.1.1 Regional Community Mobilization (RCM) teams and Divisional Mobilization Units (DMU) work with frontline officers to provide outreach programs and foster positive relationships with the community. DMU officers work with individuals, families and communities to provide them with access to supports and services. The RCM team addresses complex cases involving multiple vulnerabilities. They present situations that are at an acutely elevated risk level to the Peel Situation Table in an attempt to mitigate risk.

1.1.2 In support of the Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) Plan, efforts are made to identify individuals who are the subject of multiple service calls for issues that are non-criminal in nature. Statistical information and analysis are provided to initiate interventions that address underlying issues, connect people in need of help to the appropriate social supports, and reduce future calls for service. Statistical analysis is done and further refined to identify social disorder hotspots that enable early intervention and focused patrolling. 

1.1.3 The Communications Centre continues to follow dispatch guidelines to dispatch officers to emergency events. The integration of the Real Time Operations Centre (RTOC) assists in managing core policing resources and ensures that citizens are serviced using modern deployment models to get more efficient response to emergency events.

1.1.4 Responded to 93,554 non-emergency calls by alternative methods including community station and divisional front desk reporting, new Collision Reporting Centres as well as online reporting with follow-up through Call Diversion Units.

1.1.5 Crime Prevention educational programs address general themes of increasing personal and business safety, frauds/scams, social media awareness and auto theft awareness. Virtual and in-person presentations are given to several thousand individuals from schools, organizations and businesses. The virtual platform provided the opportunity for participation on a variety of committees including: Business Watch (Safe City Mississauga), Peel Alliance to End Homelessness, Integrated Municipal Enforcement Team (IMET), Mississauga Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Committee and Vision Zero (Pedestrian and Road Safety).

1.1.6 In the 2020 Residential Community Survey, 77 per cent of citizens strongly agreed/agreed that Peel Regional Police is effective at responding quickly to calls for assistance.

1.1.7 Violent crime rate (531 per 100,000) was below the provincial (898) and national (1,254) rates. Property crime rate (1,494 per 100,000) was below the provincial (2,329) and national (3,071) rates.

1.1.8 Solvency rate for violent crimes (75 per cent) was above the provincial (63 per cent) and national (60 per cent) rates. Solvency rate for property crimes (22 per cent) was above the provincial (19 per cent) and national (19 per cent) rates.

Ongoing review and collaboration with policing and emergency response partners to maintain a coordinated Emergency Management Plan.

1.2.1 Conducted a review of the Peel Regional Police Emergency Management Plan. Developed the first Mass Casualty Unit in Canada, comprised of both uniform and civilian members. The School Police Emergency Action Response Program includes 474 schools.

1.2.2 Emergency Management participated in training exercises in partnership with various community partners to assist with intra-agency communication and emergency preparedness. The Tactical Unit (TAC) conducted two Aircraft Interdiction Courses with stakeholders including the Halton TAC Unit, the Department of National Defense and the RCMP.

1.2.3 Emergency Management signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ontario Volunteer Emergency Response Team (OVERT) to assist Peel Regional Police’s response options to missing vulnerable person searches.

Support awareness, education and response to intimate partner and family violence.

1.3.1 The Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Unit improved the response and investigation of intimate partner disputes. The IPV Unit is reflective of our diverse community with racialized and female officers who all are specially trained in IPV investigations. The IPV Unit also partners and works out of the Safe Centre of Peel (SCoP).

1.3.2 Participated in the Region of Peel’s Family and Intimate Partner Violence (FIPV) awareness campaign to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The hashtag #BreakTheSilence was developed for use during the campaign. The IPV Unit developed short video clips in relation to educating the community on the signal for help, which is a single-handed gesture that can be used over a video call or in person by an individual to alert others that they feel threatened and need help. The signal was created as a tool to combat the rise in domestic violence cases around the world linked to self-isolation measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Review response to mental health calls and identify partners to provide mental health support to community members.

1.4.1 Established the Peel Regional Police Mental Health and Addiction Strategy to guide our service as we play a supportive and collaborative role in the mental health and addiction systems in Peel and set a foundation for ongoing collaboration with our community partners. 20 community partners and a wide range of internal members are dedicated to ensuring that people struggling receive the right response, at the right time and by the most appropriate service provider.

1.4.2 All frontline officers receive Mental Health Awareness education as part of their cohort training at three months. 60 Divisional Mobilization Unit (DMU) and Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team (MCRRT) officers were provided with specialized mental health training. 

1.4.3 MCRRT is a police led program run in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association. It provides frontline response to mental health calls to better support people in the community with mental health challenges. Eight full-time officers were trained and dedicated to this program to operate out of four Divisions, seven days a week. Response teams consist of an officer and a Crisis Support Worker. MCRRT teams responded to 5,404 call for service.

Work collaboratively with Community Safety and Well-Being partners to identify and improve outcomes for priority populations.

1.5.1 Hired a Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) Manager to lead the development of Peel Regional Police’s CSWB Strategy with an oversight Council representing multiple areas of the organization. The CSWB Strategy will be published in 2022. A new Divisional Mobilization Unit (DMU) was launched to proactively engage and support priority populations to access human services in Peel. This includes collaborating with and/or referring to organizations such as the Canadian Mental Health Association Peel Dufferin, SEVA Food Bank, Peel Addiction Assessment and Referral Centre, Peel Outreach Services, Supportive Housing in the Province and Regeneration Brampton.  

1.5.2 The CSWB Strategy will include actions to continue to strengthen how we identify priority populations and make connections to appropriate supports. A focus on priority populations has started and work has begun on a Youth Strategy.

1.5.3 A survey was conducted as part of the Human Rights Project to give all community members a voice for providing feedback. While adhering to COVID-19 guidelines, the Elder Abuse Unit conducted 11 presentations with 535 participants and 387 community consultations, and the Equity and Inclusion Bureau participated in 27 community events.

1.5.4 Clearance rate for Criminal Code violations for youth (55 per cent) was above provincial rate (47 per cent) and the national rate (45 per cent).

1.5.5 Crime rate for Criminal Code violations for youth, excluding traffic violations (524 per 100,000) was below the provincial rate (759) and the national rate (992).

1.5.6 Initiated 83 Problem Oriented Policing projects to help target community issues. Project Frost focused on vehicle warm-up thefts, resulting in 116 vehicles found running and unlocked, and 144 people spoken to after targeted patrols.

1.5.7 Chief Resource Council now includes representation from a wider and more extensive range of community representatives from the Region of Peel. Council members represent a critical resource to the Chief and the service; they offer input, recommendations for collaboration and inform the Chief on the impacts of the service received.

1.5.8 The Peel Situation Table was launched in January 2021, incorporating service providers from Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon. This multi-agency, multi-sectorial collaboration focuses on identifying situations that are at an acutely elevated level of risk and providing prioritized access to supports in an attempt to mitigate this risk. Peel Situation Table dealt with 79 cases this year.

1.5.9 Created platforms for virtual youth programs and educational videos on Peel Regional Police’s YouTube channel highlighting Peel Children’s Safety Village messages for personal, pedestrian and bicycle safety. Created community and corporate partnerships to offer in person leadership programs so police may mentor youth from priority populations.

Improve road safety through education, enforcement and proactive strategies and focus on the Community Safety and Well-Being Vision Zero goal.

1.6.1 Implemented various targeted road safety initiatives and educational campaigns including Project Noisemaker, Operation Impact, Project Lakeshore and Child Passenger Safety Week. Project ERASE (Eliminate Racing Activities on Streets Everywhere) investigated 965 vehicles and laid 978 charges.

1.6.2 Road Watch and Strategic Enforcement officers collaborated with Brampton and Mississauga transportation services and City Councilors to address road safety concerns through town hall meetings and Road Safety Committees. Received 2,317 reports from the community through the Road Watch online reporting system, which helps identify dangerous and aggressive drivers. High traffic complaint areas are closely monitored to reduce aggressive driving behaviours such as speeding, improper use of lanes, disobey signs and heavy trucks on prohibited roadways.

1.6.3 The traffic fatality rate was two per 100,000. 31 fatal collisions resulted in 34 deaths, 11 of which were pedestrians and two cyclists. The personal injury accident rate was 71 per 100,000. 1,065 personal injuries were reported, a rate decrease of 10 per cent from 2020 (1,189).

1.6.4 Analysis of collision data, calls for service, driving-related charges and traffic complaint areas continue to guide proactive enforcement. Strategic Enforcement uses collision density analysis and high traffic complaint areas, and hotspot analysis of impaired driving calls for service, to help determine areas for the Impaired Driving Enforcement Unit. Location density analysis of impaired driving calls for service and frequented drinking establishments are used for Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) enforcement. Calls for service on street racing used to determine areas of focus for ERASE teams. Qualitative long-range analysis of driving offences generates lists of outstanding and prolific driving offenders for the Safer Roads Team.

Collaborate with community partners to identify and provide support to community members and implement the Community Safety and Well-Being framework.

1.7.1 Peel Regional Police continued to improve ways of identifying repeat victims to ensure they are provided with support resources. Our Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Unit partnered with the Safe Centre of Peel (SCoP), where survivors and their families have access to wraparound care services from 15 partner agencies in one location.

1.7.2 Continued participation on the Peel Human Trafficking Service Providers Committee to address the issue of human trafficking. Committee members coordinate supports for victim/survivors through the anti-Human trafficking integrated services hub (nCourage). Our Regional Community Mobilization team’s continued partnership with Victim Services of Peel ensures that individuals who are victimized by crime, or in crisis, are informed of and/or referred to services and support.