City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

RCMP

disrupt youth gang involvement. In 2020, FYRST supported 134 youth clients and their families. FYRST also partnered with the Surrey School District to develop a workshop (virtual) series to deliver to grade 6 and 7 students transitioning to high school; • Continued the implementation of Project Lavender to empower young women and girls to make positive choices. 51 Project Lavender presentations delivered to 2010 youth, primarily to students in the Surrey School District. Project Lavender also added an Indigenous voice to its Speakers Series; • The Youth Intervention Program (“YIP”) supported 143 youth clients, successfully transitioning to telephone counselling in response to the COVID pandemic. The YIP team also participated in the Healthy Relationships Campaign, a joint effort with the City to bring awareness to youth about healthy relationships and sexting/ distribution of images online; • Surrey Traffic members continued to build partnerships with external agencies including the City of Surrey’s Vision Zero program, ICBC, and other police agencies to conduct shared enforcement operations and education campaigns addressing high risk road users and behaviours. These efforts targeted such things as pedestrian safety, speeding and distracted and impaired driving. The Traffic Section also deployed the Automatic Licence Plate Reader (“ALPR”) 197 times in 2020, checking over 240,000 vehicles resulting in 4,543 hits;

School Zone Enforcement

• Block Watch recruitment and engagement efforts were adapted to conform with Public Health directives, and all training and meetings moved to an online/virtual format. Five crime prevention resources were adapted to a digital flyer format and translated into eight languages to support program expansion. In 2020, 57 new Block Watch groups were initiated across the City. The Surrey RCMP hosted virtual “Coffee With The Block” meetings to provide Block Watch Captains and participants an opportunity to engage with police and learn about crime trends impacting their neighbourhoods. In total, 98 people virtually attended five different sessions;

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