Proudly Supporting Our Police in Dufferin-Caledon

This week, our government is proud to celebrate Police Week to recognize the brave men and women who keep our communities safe. Police Week is a national event organized in Ontario by the province in collaboration with the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police that focuses on raising awareness and recognition of the great work our police services do across the province keeping our communities safe.

Our government has been clear in its commitment to respect police officers and to provide them with the tools, resources and supports they need to do their job. The theme of Police Week 2019, “Proudly Supporting Our Police,” shines a light on the diversity of work that exists among Ontario’s police services, including forensics, canine services, search and rescue, marine, aviation, gang intelligence, anti-human trafficking, as well as the work civilian members do to support their uniformed colleagues.

In Dufferin-Caledon, we are proudly recognizing the OPP detachments in Caledon and Dufferin, the Orangeville Police and the Shelburne Police for the work they do each and every day to keep our families safe. Our government doesn’t just support police with words, but also with actions. From fixing the province’s broken police legislation, to ensuring officers are not subject to an automatic investigation when they unsuccessfully attempt to save a life with Naloxone, we stand with our police officers.

In just a short number of months, our government has taken real, immediate action to combat guns and gangs by launching a strategy aimed at fighting gun violence and dismantling gangs throughout the province. Our government also announced last fall, a $182-million investment to replace several aging OPP facilities with new detachments across the province. We also launched the first modernization of the province’s crumbling Public Safety Radio Network, which more than 38,000 provincial frontline and first responders, including OPP officers, rely on to communicate in emergencies.

Providing our police with robust legislative supports is also a key element of our plan to rebuild our province. That is why, this past March, our government passed the Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act, a full legislative package that will create a foundation for a strengthened relationship between police officers and the communities they serve.

Every day our police do incredible work to keep our communities safe. Often this work is silent, preventative and unseen. Sometimes it requires police to put themselves in harm’s way and occasionally it requires police to make difficult life or death decisions in the blink of an eye. During Police Week 2019, we are showing our thanks to police services, who can always be counted on to protect us.

If you have any questions about Police Week 2019, please contact me at 1-800-265-1603 or by email at Sylvia.jonesco@pc.ola.org.

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