British Columbia
Surrey Police Service is now BC's third largest municipal police department | News
Over the span of just 18 months, Surrey Police Service (SPS) has grown from one employee to a total of 275 employees.
Crime Severity Index ratings can be misleading - Victoria Times Colonist
Just a few serious incidents can mean a big jump in a small town’s Crime Severity Index rating
Esquimalt wants out of policing agreement with Victoria - Victoria Times Colonist
The agreement has been contentious ever since the province forced the merger of the two municipalities’ departments in 2002.
Former First Nation chief calls for more accountability after Burns Lake woman’s police-involved injury - Burns Lake Lakes District News
Community safety officers set out to build relationships, respect in Nanaimo’s downtown - Nanaimo News Bulletin
CSOs now training with program to be fully implemented next month
Advocates call for public health, human rights-focused approach to DTES decampment | CBC News
Researchers and community organizers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are calling for a public health, human rights-based approach to encampments one week after the City of Vancouver started dismantling a community that's been set up along East Hastings Street.
Alberta
New website to educate public on benefits of provincial police service - TownAndCountryToday.com
County of Barrhead councillors met with Justice Minister to discuss transition at end of June
Alberta justice minister outlines plan for provincial police force | Globalnews.ca
The Alberta government continues to make its case for a provincial police force, saying it would add hundreds of front-line officers to small detachments.
Chinatown operations hub funding gets green light from Edmonton city council | CBC News
Edmonton city council has approved $15.2 million to set up a new operations hub in Chinatown as part of the city’s safety plan unveiled in May.
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Ontario
Three men now face charges after Romana Didulo followers try to ‘arrest’ Peterborough police officers | kawarthaNOW
By kawarthaNOW. Self-proclaimed 'Queen of Canada', who called for 'arrests', travelled to Peterborough for Saturday afternoon incident at police station.
Hamilton police board reviewing use-of-force and prisoner policies after violent arrest | The Star
The arrest was captured on video and led to an officer being charged with assault
Hamilton police board demands review on use of force after officer accused of assault | CBC News
The Hamilton Police Services Board is requesting the police service review all policies and procedures related to prisoner handling and use of force after an officer was accused of assaulting an Indigenous man during an arrest.
Ottawa police 'proactively engaged' with group building private security force at former St. Brigid's property in Lowertown | Ottawa Citizen
"The nature of who has been commissioned and what role is not something we’re disclosing. Our private security force is private,” TUPOC director William Komer said. “But the public should be aware it’s simply a lawful security force."
Freedom Convoy: Intelligence memo flagged possible 'violent revenge' | CTV News
Newly disclosed documents show federal intelligence officials warned decision-makers that the police dispersal of 'Freedom Convoy' protesters in Ottawa last winter could prompt an 'opportunistic attack' against a politician or symbol of government.
Thunder Bay police oversight board to bring community perspectives into expanded governance committee | CBC News
The board passed a resolution on Tuesday that will expand its governance committee membership from two people — who were both board members — to six.
Ontario ombudsman threatens probe into slow pace of changes to police de-escalation training | The Star
Frustrated by “painfully slow” progress toward standardized and mandatory de-escalating training for police officers in the wake of the 2013 Sammy Yatim streetcar shooting, Ontario’s ombudsman is threatening a probe into the lack of provincial action.
Wikwemikong Police, NOSM collaborate on new approach to policing - Elliot Lake News
‘There’s no existing comprehensive training for Indigenous police for trauma-informed policing’
Police lay 400 charges in massive cross-border drug bust | The Star
Some of the 27 firearms seized and displayed at York police headquarters Wednesday were smuggled onto Walpole Island First Nation in southwestern Ontario.
UCCM Police launches culture and trauma-informed curriculum - The Manitoulin Expositor
M’CHIGEENG—UCCM Anishinaabe Police Service (UCCM APS) announced the launch of their culture and trauma informed curriculum last week. The resulting training falls in line with one of the components of the service’s Lighting the Fire Within project, which was designed to reduce risk factors associated with domestic violence and facilitate the creation of safer, stronger and healthier First Nations communities.
New police anti-racism committee tackles systemic racism barriers in Mississauga and Brampton | inSauga
Intelligence report flagged possible 'violent revenge' after Ottawa protest shutdown | CBC News
Newly disclosed documents show federal intelligence officials warned decision-makers that the police dispersal of Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa last winter could prompt an "opportunistic attack" against a politician or symbol of government.
Public inquiry into use of Emergencies Act during convoy protests to start Sept. 19 | CBC News
The public inquiry that will analyze the federal government's rationale for using emergency measures to quell last winter's Freedom Convoy protests will kick off on Sept. 19, the commission created to hold the hearings has announced.
Nova Scotia
N.S. shooting: Advice given to witnesses worries former judge | CTV News
A former Supreme Court of Canada judge working with the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting says he's worried the federal Justice Department has been discouraging witnesses from being forthcoming with relevant evidence.
New Brunswick
STU course to explore 'defunding the police' | CBC News
A course exploring what it means to defund the police will be offered to criminology students at St. Thomas University this fall.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Police reform advocates say SIRT doesn't have the teeth to hold the RNC accountable. What will? | CBC News
Advocates for police reform in Newfoundland and Labrador say the latest watchdog report on alleged sexual misconduct by officers has laid bare gaping chasms in the province's system for pursuing complaints against police forces.
The North
Northwest Territories RCMP deploy controversial roadside cannabis screening devices - The Globe and Mail
Some criminal defence lawyers have raised concerns about the devices’ reliability, especially in cold temperatures
Mental-health support is scarce in Nunavut, but an Inuit-language counsellor training program could change that - The Globe and Mail
The training program is called Our Life’s Journey, and it is unique in Nunavut
National
What happens when police commit crimes?
Independent police oversight is essential, and an examination of 15 years of SIU investigations shows there are many ways to improve it.
The RCMP needs comprehensive reform
Change will not come from within the police service. Here are 10 top ways to bring about an ambitious remake of the Mounties.
Mountie who showed sexual photo to assault victim during investigation got his job back | CBC News
A Mountie who was fired after he showed a revealing photo of himself to an assault victim and exchanged sexual texts with her during an investigation fought successfully to get his job back by arguing he was denied a proper hearing.
The RCMP has an important role to play — one that shouldn’t include functioning as a provincial police force | TheRecord.com
The RCMP’s contract policing model is highly centralized, difficult to reform and often preoccupied with the needs of an Ottawa-based bureaucracy.
Canada’s criminal justice system is racist. We need more than apologies to fix it | Canada's National Observer: News & Analysis
Repealing all mandatory minimum sentences will lead to more justice for Black, Indigenous and racialized and other disadvantaged communities.
Raymond J. de Souza: Criminal justice has a credibility problem — in Canada as well as the U.S. | National Post
What 7 years of data tells us about the disturbing rise of online child exploitation in Canada | The Pointer
It sheds new light on who is being impacted the most, how police are handling the problem—and how so much more needs to be done to stop it.
International
'Met Police are so tied up dealing with people with mental health issues officers barely have time to tackle crime some days' - MyLondon
Superintendent Ivey said the demand from calls unrelated to crime means officers are unable to do the job they signed up for
New Orleans moves to end oversight of police | CTV News
New Orleans officials asked a federal judge Tuesday to end court-supervised oversight of its police department under a pact negotiated with the U.S. Justice Department a decade ago, after deadly police shootings of civilians following Hurricane Katrina cast renewed scrutiny on the scandal-plagued department.
Consider This: Police reform stymied by local rules requiring chiefs be hired from within the ranks | Consider This
Police recruitment strategies being deployed by the CHP
The author of "Criminal (In) Justice" discusses what the push for decarceration and depolicing gets wrong and who it hurts most
'Under-Policed and Over-Imprisoned' | National Review
That’s how George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok describes the U.S. criminal-justice system.
We Need Better Science on Race and Policing | Psychology Today
Do academics overstate the case for disparities?