Ontario recently announced that it will begin public consultations across the province to help develop the Strategy for a Safer Ontario, a new framework which aims to promote a collaborative approach to community safety and well-being. The consultation will seek input on the strategy’s key pillars, which include:
- Enhancing accountability and strengthening civilian governance of police services boards as well as how to ensure police oversight bodies are effective and have clear mandates
- Improving interactions between police and vulnerable Ontarians, including enhancing frontline responses to those in crisis
- Clarifying police duties, modernize training programs and deliver services using a range of public safety personnel
- Developing a provincial framework to ensure equitable and culturally responsive policing for the province’s First Nations communities.
Public meetings will be held in Cobourg, London, Newmarket, Hamilton, Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, and Toronto. A survey has also been set up to collect feedback online.
For more information on how to participate, visit the Government of Ontario website.