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1. McCauley Chair of the Board Présidente du Conseil n n o n n n n o n n n o n n n n a n OAKVILLE HOSPITAL WATCH Working together to Prevent Crime Happy to Support Police Services in Oakville THE OAKVILLE MILTON AND DISTRIGT RNEAL ESTATE BOARD LE CONSEIL DES ECOLES CATHOLIQUES DE HALTON Community Policing Benefits All of Us We‘re Proud of the Police for the Services They Provide to the Oakwille Community Oakvilleâ€"Trafalgar Memorial Hospital 327 Reynolds St., Oakville, ON L6J 3L7 ROMAN CATHOLLC SCHOOL BOARD Is Happy to Support the Efforts of the Police in Our Community 2544 Speers Rd. (at Bronte Rd.) We Support Our "Boys Girls in Blue" Bavnisteris and Suliciters > 9 AGrons 2 $45â€"2571 HENDERSON C.G. Bymes Director of Education Directeur de I‘éducation By ANGELA BLACKBURN Oakville Beaver Staff Supports Community Policing Regional Police Service‘s best kept secrets â€" but ironically, it‘s one they‘ve been clamoring to tell. Community policing. It‘s the concept of specific police officers and neighborhoods working together to address neighborhood concerns. Et may be one of the Halton It‘s a concept that allows the community to inform police about concerns and once that happens, police have a host of resources â€" both personnel and specific programs â€" they can use to address the problem. The community policing concept, however, can only work by breaking down apathy and get the community involved, to work. At the core of the concept‘s success are Community Consultation Committees â€" a group of residents, business people and others from specific neighborhoods who know their neighborhood and its people and who can ‘relate information about concerns to a group of police officers assigned to patrol their community. "Traditionally police departments everywhere have policed their community from the police perspective, reactively.. What community policing does is give ts a chance to interact with the community and get input from the community about their concerns. Community policing, basically, is the police and community working together," said Halton Regional Police Oakville Crime Prevention Sgt. Joe Prasad. The concept doesn‘t replace traditional reactive policing but it attempts to address crime preventatively and proactively. Community policing, said Prasad, is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that allows the police and community to work closely together in new ways to solve crime, fear of crime, physical and social disorder and neighborhood decay. "The philosophy rests on the belief that law abiding people in the community deserve input into the police process in exchange for their participation and support," said Phone Alone ommunity policing i It also calls for police and people to be free to explore creative ways of addressing neighborhood concerns beyond the narrow focus on individual crime incidents. Community policing is a "new contract" between the police and citizens. "The new relationship is based on mutual trust and also suggests that police serve as a catalyst in challenging people to accept their share of the responsibility for solving their own individual problems as well as their share of responsibility for the overall quality of life in the community," said Prasad. The shift to community policing however does mean a slower response time for nonâ€"emergency calls, with citizens themselves asked to handle more of their minor concerns. "In exchange, we‘ll (the police) be free to work with people on developing long term solutions for pressing community concerns," explained Prasad. "Neighborhood residents who address and solve their own problems are significantly more effective than those who refer their problems to other agencies," said Prasad. Currently, police answer calls according to a graduating scale of emergency on a tiered response system. A 911 emergency call will see police, the Oakville Fire Department and the Haltonâ€"Mississauga Ambulance Service respond immediately. "Sometimes: people expect immediate response on everything and that‘s not always possible for various reasons," said Prasad. Most calls, if not 911, can go to police at 878â€"5511 or the new police number at 825â€"4777. After emergency calls, come "Urgent" calls dealing with a crime in progress. i Soon As Possible" (ASAP) calls deal with crime concerns but crimes which aren‘t in progress. Finally, "Service Calls" deal with concerns of lesser priority which don‘t call for immediate police attention. Minor complaints of that nature can even be addressed to the local Community Consultation Committees. "Community policing is based on the premise noted by the founder of policing, Sir Robert Peel, "that the police are the public and the public are the police"," said the sergeant, noting it advocates teramwork while excluding _ possibilities _ of vigilanteeism. _ Community policing isn‘t new. It began throughout Halton in 1990. In Oakville, the town was divided into eight communities based on existing "neighborhoods" or areas. Oakvitle‘s eight Community Policing communities incluge: C Bronte â€" bounded by Burloak Road/Third Line/QEW/Lake Ontario â€"Sgt. 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