"CPAC will act as a catalyst for the development and delivery of community policing in Ontario through linkages and partnerships with policing, community groups and agencies throughout the Province of Ontario."
CPAC has been working with Dr. Hugh Russell and the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to develop an new Community Policing Model. In the early stages of this process a Power point was developed to demonstrate how Community Policing should work in both safe and unsafe communities soon the new model will be ready. In the mean time we are happy to provide you with this power point and my reports from our AGM. Please look them over and provide us with any comments or suggestions. Click the read more icon at the bottom to see the files and viewers needed to see these documents.
Back in 2005, CPAC decided that communities in Ontario had enough experience with community policing projects and initiatives that it was time for someone to go find out what works, and what doesn’t.
So CPAC asked a group of people (police leaders, agency directors, community activists,government experts, and others), “Putting your life of experience together, what factors do you think are most critical for the success of a local, community-police partnership?”*
That started a project to research factors that are critical to the success of any community policing or community mobilization project, anywhere. CPAC’s interviews with experts
generated a list of approximately 50 potential “critical success factors” on which the balance of the work will concentrate. These critical success factors cluster under five headings:
Over the course of Winter, 2008-9, the Community
Policing Committee of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police collaborated
with 50 police officers and citizens from across Ontario in devising a new model of Community
Policing.
This revised model has no public policy
implications attached to it, beyond the observation that all its prescriptions
are consistent with Ontario’s
current policing standards, regulations and guidelines. Further, no public
funding accompanies it; nor has any been suggested, requested, or offered.
Finally, the model stands alone as a technical guideline for police and
community partners that wish to improve their effectiveness in Community
Policing. It is not a program, nor are any programs implied or intended.
You can help with this review by examining the
model and sharing your observations about it. How well do you think it will
work in your community, with your police officers and their community partners?
Take a look at it; think about it; and let us know what you think. We’ll take
your thoughts seriously and integrate them in the advice we’ll pass along to
the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, Community Policing Committee
CPAC is represented on the Ontario Association of Chiefs ofPolice (OACP) Community Policing Committee. Through that Committee CPAC has undertaken an exciting project to update and revise the Community Policing Model that Ontario adopted back in 1996.
The old model has proved inadequate for a number of reasons:
1) the language, concepts and meanings are vague and general;
2) it does not speak to front line police officers to whom falls most of the community policing work;
3) it does not accommodate recent trends in community policing,like “community mobilization”; and,
4) it inadvertently suggests that police officers are responsible for things like “community development”
"CPAC will act as a catalyst for the development and delivery of community policing in Ontario through linkages and partnerships with policing, community groups and agencies throughout the Province of Ontario."
