City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

RCMP

• The detachment offered 23 virtual presentations to 668 residents on various topics around crime prevention and public safety and engagement or emergency preparedness. The Community Programs team also completed 16 Home Security Assessments at residential, commercial and Crime Free Multi Housing properties, and added 12 new buildings to the Project Entry program. The Diversity and Indigenous Peoples Unit also delivered 107 diversity presentations to a total of 3067 people (these presentations were also primarily delivered virtually); • Following a successful one-year pilot project, the Safe Driver Dialogue Circle (“SDCC”) was adopted as a regular alternative measures program at the Surrey RCMP. The SDCC offers selected drivers an educational and reflective process in lieu of traditional consequences for unsafe driving such as fines. The goal is for participants to internalize safer driving habits to make Surrey roads safer overall. This Restorative Justice program received 170 referrals throughout the year; and •

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the Detachment stood up an internal COVID-19 Response Team and implemented a number of internal measures to ensure the safety of employees so that essential frontline police services external COVID-19 response, the Surrey RCMP established a joint COVID-19 Compliance & Enforcement Team (“CCET”), in partnership with the City Bylaws Division, to conduct proactive and public safety could be maintained. As part of the

Compliance & Enforcement Team

checks to ensure local residents and businesses understand their obligations and are in compliance with the directions of the Provincial Medical Health Officer.

FUTURE INITIATIVES, GOALS & OBJECTIVES

PUBLIC SAFETY

• 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; •

Disrupt illegal drug distribution networks within the community;

• Reduce gang and gun related violence; • Increase road safety; • Enhance outreach and engagement with vulnerable persons related to sexual offences;

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