Community officer program expanding to 13 Toronto neighbourhoods
Posted June 11, 2022 1:21 pm.
Last Updated June 11, 2022 1:23 pm.
Thirteen more Toronto neighbourhoods will be seeing community officers in their areas as the city’s police service expands its Neighbourhood Community Officer program (NCO) to cover a total of 51 localities.
The program was launched in 2013 with NCOs deployed in all 16 Toronto police divisions.
Chief of Police James Ramer and Mayor John Tory made the announcement on Saturday at a community open house at 31 Division.
In a press release, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) said expanding the program was a priority in its 2022 budget. The additional neighbourhoods were identified through “comprehensive analyses, including of crime and demographics,” and will have 52 new NCOs they said.
NCOs are embedded in a particular neighbourhood for a minimum of four years and TPS says they co-develop solutions with the community and mobilize resources to “reduce crime, fear of crime and anti-social behaviour.”
The following 13 neighbourhoods will be added to the existing 38 that are currently included in the program:
- Rockcliffe-Smythe (12 Division)
- South Parkdale (14 Division)
- New Toronto (22 Division)
- Elms-Old Rexdale (23 Division)
- York University Heights (31 Division)
- Englemount-Lawrence (32 Division)
- Clanton Park (32 Division)
- Dorset Park (41 Division)
- Eglinton East (43 Division)
- Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn (43 Division)
- Harbourfront-City Place (52 Division)
- Taylor-Massey (55 Division)
- Danforth (55 Division)
