Starting a new career is always an exciting decision, but when it is driven by passion and a desire to help others, it becomes something truly meaningful. If you have ever dreamed about making a difference in your community, now is the perfect time to take that first step.
HQ's Comms Hub, Jul 7, 2025
Celebrating 25 Years of Transformative Police Leadership: The OACP and Rotman School’s Enduring Partnership
HQ's Comms Hub, Jun 19, 2025
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
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
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
A new level of for front-line officers and investigators operational awareness to access the information they need and public safety is regarding offenders who are out on coming to policing in bail for firearms-related offences. Ontario with the rollout of the Provincial Bail Compliance This situational awareness and Dashboard (PBCD). Originally designed investigative tool is now available for and built by the Toronto Police Service all Ontario police services who wish (TPS),
HQ Summer 2025, Jul 8, 2025
Mental health and well-being are fundamental to the overall health of police officers and civilian members. By strategically prioritizing well-being, police services can support a healthy workforce from “hire to retire.” Improving police wellbeing starts with the development and delivery of a data-driven wellbeing strategy. The process of building a well-being strategy can be daunting, but by following a few simple steps, organizations can ensure their strategies are effectiv
HQ Summer 2025, Jul 8, 2025
As police leaders continuously strive to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public safety within their communities, they are increasingly adopting new, innovative, data-driven approaches that not only solve crime but aim to prevent it before it occurs.
HQ Summer 2025, Jul 8, 2025
Ontario police services are tasked with a growing array of responsibilities today, many of which officers likely never anticipated would be a major part of their job. The police’s role in responding to Canada’s homelessness and toxic drug crises and, more specifically, the proliferation of homeless encampments or “tent cities” has emerged as a major new challenge for today’s police professionals
HQ Summer 2025, Jul 8, 2025
Futureproofing our Police Organizations: A Leader’s Privilege and Responsibility
HQ Summer 2025, Jul 8, 2025
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HQ Winter 2025, Apr 2, 2025
Inside Owen Sound Police Service’s new emergency communications centre
HQ Magazine Winter 2024 - 2025, Apr 2, 2025
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
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
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
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