Celebrating 25 Years of Transformative Police Leadership:
Celebrating 25 Years of Transformative Police Leadership: The OACP and Rotman School’s Enduring Partnership
HQ's Comms Hub, Jun 19, 2025
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Licence Plate Recognition:
Automated Licence Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology is a transformative innovation for policing, helping to track stolen vehicles, locate missing persons, and enforce driving laws. But as its use expands to include other purposes, so does the responsibility to ensure ALPR programs are well-managed, privacy-protective, and trusted by the public.
HQ's Comms Hub, May 13, 2025
Book Review: If They Only Knew: A Cop’s Journey with Addiction and Mental Health
As someone who has worked closely with many police officers for more than two decades and spent five years engaged in doctoral research on what makes police officers “tick,” I have often found that officers find it difficult to talk about personal mental health and addiction issues. I attribute much of that to the deeply engrained police culture that demands “toughness” in the face of what cops deal with “on the job”.
HQ's Comms Hub, May 9, 2025
The Key is Compassion
Shiftwork makes people tired in a way that few things can. Police members and other first responders, who work to promote the safety and well-being of those around them, are well aware of this. However, physical exhaustion is not the only type of fatigue. The emotional load of seeing and experiencing tragedies repeatedly can have long term impacts, including on the ability to feel compassionate.
HQ's Comms Hub, May 6, 2025
Evaluative Thinking about Strategic Business Planning in Policing
What is strategic management and why is it important? Strategic management is the execution of a plan; it is dynamic, continuous, and involves the coordination of resources across an organization. Done well, it means a plan made an impact towards things that matter and did so efficiently.
HQ's Comms Hub, Apr 22, 2025HQ Winter 2025
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HQ Winter 2025 Flip Book Edition
Link here for the HQ Winter 2024 edition in flip book format.
HQ Winter 2025, Apr 2, 2025
Improving Service & Enhancing Public Safety
Inside Owen Sound Police Service’s new emergency communications centre
HQ Magazine Winter 2024 - 2025, Apr 2, 2025
Crime Metrics for the People: Measuring Crime for Safer Communities
The way we measure crime in Canada is flawed. Traditional police metrics focus on counting criminal and non-criminal occurrences, equating volume with public safety. This approach provides a one-dimensional view of a multidimensional issue. Crime volume measurements are susceptible to both internal and external influences, leading to skewed data. Sherman (2020) notes that police efforts concentrated on a specific concern, or private resources dedicated to loss prevention can
HQ Magazine Winter 2024 - 2025, Apr 2, 2025
New Paradigms for Strategic Planning in Policing
The unique nature of police work sets it apart from other organizations. Today, police services face a wide array of challenges, including optimizing resource allocation, streamlining operations and addressing growing demands for transparency and accountability (McIntyre et al., 2023). Rapid societal changes have heightened the need for more agile, integrated and aligned approaches to managing police resources and initiatives. Traditional strategic planning often lacks specif
HQ Magazine Winter 2024 - 2025, Apr 2, 2025
Reflections on the Community Safety & Policing Act (CSPA)
Nobody said modernizing policing legislation in Ontario was going to be easy. The province’s Future of Policing Advisory Committee (FPAC) was established in 2013 to develop a plan for the effective, efficient and sustainable delivering of police services. The FPAC informed the Strategy for a Safer Ontario, and this ultimately led to the 2018 passage of the Safer Ontario Act (SOA). By the end of 2018 following a provincial election, the SOA was retracted, and in February of 20
HQ Magazine Winter 2024 - 2025, Apr 2, 2025