City of Surrey's 2024-2028 Financial Plan

RCMP

FUTURE INITIATIVES, GOALS & OBJECTIVES

PUBLIC SAFETY

• Collaborate with the City to reach a resolution on the policing transition and deliver on Council’s policing priorities; • Enhance community safety and crime prevention programs, including alignment with the City and the Provincial Safer Communities Action Plan; • Maintain funded strength to ensure adequate and effective policing; • Incorporate Indigenous perspectives and participation in programs and Reaffirm public trust in policing through enhanced police presence and community engagement and restoring programs and services impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and other external factors; • Hold known/repeat offenders to account; • Enhance response to calls for service; • Increase early intervention with at-risk youth; • Promote and participate in a collaborative response to homelessness, addiction and mental health issues; • Disrupt illegal drug distribution networks within the community; • Reduce gang and gun related violence; services to support Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations; •

Increase road safety;

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• Enhance outreach and engagement with vulnerable persons related to sexual offences; • Enhance domestic violence education, prevention and enforcement; • Reduce property crime; • Enhance crime reduction strategies

and demonstrate support to community problem solving; Initiate positive police-youth interactions;

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• Enhance external communication of community safety issues and Surrey RCMP initiatives; • Strengthen partnerships to address complex social issues and community concerns; • Enhance engagement with diverse populations; • Enhance public participation in community safety programs; • Enhance employee knowledge of diversity and implications for police service delivery; • Increase fiscal responsibility and enhance police governance and accountability mechanisms;

Leverage technology to support service delivery; Improve data quality and record keeping; Ensure operational readiness;

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City of Surrey | 2024—2028 Financial Plan | General Operating Fund | Police

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