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Provincial Funding Programs

Safer Communities - 1,000 Officers Partnership Program

  • Implemented in August 2005 as a key part of the government's plan to foster safer and stronger communities.
  • Provides cost-sharing transfer payments to municipalities to hire 1,000 new front-line police officers;
  • $37.1 million in annual funding for this initiative will allow Ontario municipalities to hire 1,000 new police officers, with 500 deployed to community policing and 500 to the six priority areas that are of greatest concern to Ontario residents: organized crime and marijuana grow ops, guns and gangs, youth crime, domestic violence, dangerous offenders and protecting children from Internet luring and child pornography.
  • On November 25, 2005, Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Monte Kwinter announced the allocation of all 1,000 officers. Sixty of these officers were allocated to northern and First Nations police services, which are eligible for funding to a maximum of $70,000 per officer per year. The remaining 940 officers will be funded to a maximum of $35,000 per officer per year. Salary-related costs are eligible for funding, but training and equipment costs are not.
  • The officers hired under this program are intended to create a net increase in the number of new officers in communities since the beginning of the McGuinty government's mandate on October 23, 2003. This means the province is not providing funding to replace officers who have resigned, retired or been terminated, but rather to increase a police service's numbers above its actual uniform strength on that date.
  • The program is also designed to fund, from May 18, 2005, the approximately 400 of the 1,000 officers that police services had hired since the start of the McGuinty government's mandate.
  • On January 5, 2006, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced additional one-time funding of $14 million to accelerate the program so that all the officers will be able to go through the Ontario Police College by the end of 2006, one year ahead of schedule, if police services wish to take up their full allocations.
  • For more information, visit the website at www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca.

Community Policing Partnerships Program

  • Provides cost-sharing transfer payments to municipalities to hire 1,000 new front-line police officers.
  • The Community Policing Partnership (CPP) program was initially a $131 million, five-year initiative that was to expire in March 2003. In the 2000 Budget, the program was made permanent. Under the CPP program, the Ministry of Public Safety and Security funds, to a maximum of $30,000 annually, the salary, benefits and overtime of 1,000 net new front-line officers in municipal and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) contract police services. To date, 998 of the 1,000 officers allocated have been hired by police services.
  • The allocation of the 1,000th police officer was announced in November 2000 in York Region.
  • The addition of 23 officers announced on October 29, 2002, brought to 1,023 the number of net new front-line officers allocated and/or hired.
  • The 23 new officers are being hired to replace current officers who will be redeployed to criminal intelligence activities at their police service.
  • In May 2003, Premier Ernie Eves announced that the government would put another 1,000 net new front-line officers on the streets of communities. Of that total, the OPP will receive 300 positions and municipal services will be eligible for 700 officers.

Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (R.I.D.E.)

  • Provides grants to municipalities to enhance regular R.I.D.E. spot check activities, carried out by local police services.
  • Provides funds for drinking and driving counter-measures beyond those carried out routinely by police. Assistance is only provided for overtime or paid duty enforcement costs.
  • Since 1988, government grants have been provided to municipal police services and OPP municipal contract locations to enhance their enforcement capability against drinking and driving.
  • Since 1995-1996, the Ontario government has doubled RIDE grants to $1.2 million per year, as part of a five-year enhancement program. In 2002, 150 RIDE grants were approved.
  • The RIDE program evolved from a non-ministry initiative - Reduced Impaired Driving in Etobicoke - started by the Etobicoke Safety Council, the Addiction Research Foundation and the (then) Metropolitan Toronto Police Service.

Youth Crime and Violence Initiative

  • The Youth Crime and Violence Initiative Grant Program is an initiative aimed at enhancing community safety by providing funds to police services and community groups working through police services to support their fight against youth crime and to deal with high-risk youth. Funding for 2002/2003 was $500,000.
  • Grants are provided to police services to support initiatives that reflect strict discipline approaches to youth crime and street gang law enforcement and include support for the purchase of specialized surveillance and operational equipment, such as surveillance kits, digital cameras and database software.

First Nations Policing

  • Provides cost-sharing transfer payments to nine self administered First Nations Police Services

Safer Communities Grant

  • Provides grants to community based, not-for-profit, incorporated organizations and Chiefs and Councils. The grant encourages people, business and government to work together, forge new alliances and develop community initiatives to prevent and reduce crime.

To obtain more information on these programs, call the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services – Policing Services Division at (416) 326-5010 or visit the website at www.mpss.jus.gov.on.ca and click on ‘Program Development’.

 
   
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