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Emergency Preparedness (EP) Week

This year, Emergency Preparedness (EP) Week takes place between May 2 and 8. Given the current environment and focused efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, the week is being promoted online, using the official hashtags #EPWeek2021 #SemainedelaSC2021. Online public education resources are available as well as the new Government of Canada EP Week resources.

The OACP encourages you to follow @OntarioWarnings and @ONsafety on Twitter for information throughout the week.

New Cambridge CEBP Resource

Our partners at the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-based Policing (CCEBP) have produced new research which identifies a way of pin-pointing violent crime with a lot more data than has been shown as unused so far.

The majority of violent incidents recorded by ambulance and emergency services are not reported to the police.  As this article, which examined data from West Midlands, U.K., reveals, adding medical data could increase the number of identified violent offences by 15 to 20% to the totals...

OACP Statement: Ontario's New Enforcement Measures Regarding the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders

 Statement by the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police
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Ontario’s New Enforcement Measures Regarding the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders 

Ontario’s police leaders know that Ontarians expect their police officers and all police personnel to continue to play an important role in combatting the challenges posed by COVID-19. The current third wave of the pandemic poses an extraordinary threat to public health and police officers will do their part in enforcing the stay-at-home orders designed to keep...

Supporting Victims of Intimate Partner Violence

The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) has endorsed Bill 274, Intimate Partner Violence Disclosure Act, 2021, a Private Members Bill proposed by MPP Jennie Stevens (St. Catharines) also known as Clare’s Law. In Canada, intimate partner violence accounts for one-quarter of all police-reported violent crimes.

 Equally concerning is the fact that, on average, 70 victims are murdered each year by their intimate partners. These victims are usually women and it is estimated that as few as...

New Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Executive Director

Congratulations to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) on the selection of its new Executive Director, Ms. Aviva Rotenberg. She will assume the leadership of our national association on Monday, May 3, 2021.

Ms. Rotenberg comes to the CACP from the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) where she devoted 15 years of her career in supporting the goals and objectives of the association as the Director of Strategic Initiatives and as a past Director of Professional Development.