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Gestion responsable: un engagement totalms SECURITY CONSULTANT ROMEX SALUTES THE LOCAL POLICE MEN WOMEN FOR THEIR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY Appleby College proudly supports "Crime Prevention Week" 540 Lakeshore Rd. W. Oakville, Ont. L6K 3P1 845â€"4681 (Continued from page 1) Community policing is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that allows the police and community residents to work closely together in new ways to solve the problems of crime, fear of crime, physical and social disorder and neighâ€" borhood 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. Community policing employs a new contract between the police and the citizens it serves, one that offers the hope of overcoming widespread apathy, at the same time it restrains any impulse to vigilantism. This new relationship, based on mutuâ€" al trust, also suggests that the police serve as a catâ€" alyst, challenging people to accept their share of responsibility for solving their own individual problems, as well as their share of responsibility for the overall quality of life in the community. Community policing rests in the belief that nothing surpasses what dedicated human beings, talking and working together, can achieve. The crime rate won‘t necessarily decrease if we increase the number of police officers. Reducing opportunities for crime involves action by individâ€" uals and communities, in coâ€"operation with the police to protect themselves from becoming vicâ€" tims of crime. To inhibit a potential offender, tarâ€" gets of crime are made less vulnerable and harder to penetrate through crime prevention education. This is known as target hardening. Measures include better lighting, locks, and alarms in busiâ€" ness and residential premises, ensuring unoccupied residences appear lived in, better street lighting and maintaining buildings. Opportunity reduction programs involving police and community particiâ€" pation include neighborhood watch and block parâ€" ents. Neighbors monitor and report suspicious activities and provide assistance to children. These measures attempt to modify the behavior of vicâ€" tims or change the physical environment to preâ€" vent crime and reduce fear. Community policing is both a philosophy and organizational strategy The community, police, social agencies and community organizations must combine their efforts and strategies towards crime reduction. Crime prevention is not just a police responsibility. The general public can report crimes and partake in preventive activities. The public and business sector can play a role in preventing their own vicâ€" timization. Community organizations and public services can aid in the prevention of crime through enhancing the quality of life of citizens; this is, crime prevention through socia! development. We must remember that the police are the peoâ€" ple and the people are the police. Community conâ€" sultation committees, neighborhood watch â€"meetâ€" ings, police charity involvement, neighborhood substations and village constables who are visible and accessible on foot or bicycle, foster direct conâ€" tact between the police and the community in a Offering Complete Insurance Services Since 1903 Long established locally operated by caring community minded people. 56 LAKESHORE ROAD WEST, OAKVILLE FUNERAL DIRECTORS » Don Clarke * Kevin Usher e Shaun Webb _ * Terry O‘Brien _ We proudly support our local Police Force. 189 Lakeshore Rd. E. Oakville, 845â€"4201 INSURANCE BROKERS LTD _ Afuncral arberry Davis nonâ€"confrontational manner and enhance their problem solving relationship. It is difficult to measure the success of crime prevention efforts. One of the most important areas where the Halton Police focus their attention, is in the schools. In the elementary schools officers are there full time to teach the children personal safety and drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.). In each high school in Oakville there is the "officer in the school" program. Each officer is a qualified crime prevention practitioner who is assigned to a school and spends one day a week in the same school. The object of this is not to catch the stuâ€" dents doing something wrong, but to alleviate apaâ€" thy and to be available for discussions and class lectures dealing with drugs, date rape, drinking and driving, shoplifting, violence, personal safety, a police career or anything within the realm of policâ€" ing. This form of community policing provides the police with an opportunity to work directly with the young before their problems escalate to the point where arrest and incarceration are inevitatle. We must recognize that our collective response to crime must emphasize crime prevention efforts that reduce opportunities for crime and focus increasingly on atâ€"risk young people and on the underlying social and economic factors associated with crime. This approach involves partnerships which places the crime problem in a community context and sees its solution as a social one. Among our list of crime prevention programs in Oakville we offer free of charge the following: Home and business security check â€" our crime prevention officer will attend a home or business on request and offer crime prevention suggestions on better security; bearing in mind that money spent on crime prevention is an investment not an expenditure. After studying crime trends, mesâ€" sages are electronically sent to all neighborhood watch homes and businesses. This includes reports of break and enters, child molestations, sex crimes and suspicious persons that would be of interest to the community, especially in the vicinity of schools. We encourage everyone to use our electric engraver to mark property with a unique number in case of loss or theft. One aspect of our crime prevention function that keeps us busy is the many requests for talks to social and professional groups on personal safety. These talks are also extended to seniors and small groups of new mothers. Everyone is welcome to drop in at the police station at 1229 White Oaks Blvd. and pick up crime prevention brochures ranging from personal safety, street proofing for kids to safety for seniors. For further information on crime prevention please contact Sgt. Joe Prasad at 825â€"4777 ext. 22220 During Crime Prevention Week (Nov. 6â€"12) the police will have displays at the Oakville Place mall during regular mall hours on Thursday the 10th, Friday the 11th and Saturday the 12th. Keeping Our Community Safe Through Taxi Watch We are happy to support and truly thank our local Police Force. SHOPPING CENTRE 125 Cross St. Oakville