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Adequacy Standards

Adequacy Standards Regulation Policy

Statutory Authority On January 8, 1999, the Ministry of the Solicitor General introduced Regulation 3/99 under the Police Services Act: Adequacy and Effectiveness of Police Services. This Regulation...

Air Support Policing Policy

Policy Statement The Regional Municipality of York Police Services Board (“the Board”) is committed to being the benchmark of excellence in policing. Air support policing enhances the operational...

Arrest

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 29 of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police services board to have a policy on arrest. In addition, section 13(1)(j) requires the Chief of...

Auxiliaries And Volunteers Policy

Policy Statement The Regional Municipality of York Police Services Board (“the Board”) recognizes that auxiliaries and volunteers are special people who have chosen to devote their time, energy, skill...

Bail And Violent Crime

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 29 of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police services board to have a policy on bail and violent crime. In addition, section 13(1)(k) requires...

Canine Units

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 5(1)(d) of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires that police services have canine tracking investigative supports. Under section 5(5), these supports...

Child Abuse And Neglect

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 29 of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police services board to have a policy on investigations into the physical and sexual abuse of children...

Child Pornography Policy (Internet Child Exploitation)

Policy Statement The Regional Municipality of York Police Services Board (‘the Board’) is committed to the protection of all children in York Region. The Board believes that all children deserve a...

Collection, Preservation And Control Of Evidence And Property

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Sections 132, 133 and 134 of the Police Services Act address the effective management, storage and disposition of personal property, money and firearms, which come...

Communicable Diseases

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements The Occupational Health and Safety Act sets out the responsibilities of employers, supervisors and workers for workplace safety. Among other obligations the Act...

Communications And Dispatch

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 5(1)(a) of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police service to have a communications centre. Section 5(3) allows a police service to access the...

Community Patrol

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 4(2) of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police service, using its own police officers, to provide community patrol consisting of: general...

Court Security

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 137 of the Police Services Act requires that, where a police services board has court security obligations, the board is responsible for: ensuring the...

Crime Prevention

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 1(1) of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police service to provide community-based crime prevention initiatives. Section 1(2)(a) and 1(2)(b)...

Crime, Call And Public Disorder Analysis

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 5(1)(c) of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police service to have a crime analysis, call analysis and public disorder analysis capacity...

Criminal Harassment

1. Purpose Section 29 of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police services board to have a policy on investigations into criminal harassment. In addition, section 12(1)(c) requires the...

Criminal Intelligence

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 5(1)(b) of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police service to have a criminal intelligence capacity. Section 5(4) of the regulation allows a...

Criminal Investigation Management and Procedures

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Ontario Adequacy Standards Regulation 3/99, sections 5(1)(d), 9, 11(1), 11(2), 11(3), 11(4), 12(1), 14(1), 14(3), 14(4) and 29. Preamble The objective of Criminal...

Crisis Negotiation

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 21 of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police service to provide, within a reasonable response time, the services of one or more crisis...

Domestic Violence Occurrences

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements Section 29 of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police services board to have a policy on investigations into domestic violence occurrences. In addition...
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