17 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,June 17,2021 insidehalton.com Please contact us, as soon as possible, if you have any accessibility needs at Halton Region events or meetings. Meetings at Halton Region Regional Council meetings are taking place through web conferencing until further notice. Videos will be posted to halton.ca. 06 17 21 NOTICEOFAPPLICATIONFORAPPROVALTOEXPROPRIATE LAND ExpropriationsAct,R.S.O. 1990, c. E.26. Limited Interest in Perpetuity (Permanent Easement - Culvert Reconstruction andMaintenance) 1. Part of Lots 32 and 33, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Part 6 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21063; 2. Part of Lot 34, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Part 12 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21064. Limited Interest in Perpetuity (Permanent Easement -Hydro Poles,Tiebacks, GuyWires) 1. Part of Block 8, Plan 20M-947 designated as Parts 28, 29 and 30 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21073; 2. Part of Lot 35, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Parts 2, 3 and 4 on Reference PlanNo. 20R- 21873 (previously describedonDraft ReferencePlanNo.O.L.S. File#17-94-11preparedbyCunninghamMcConnell Limited); 3. Part of Lot 34, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21875 (previously describedonDraft ReferencePlanNo.O.L.S. File#17-94-12 preparedbyCunninghamMcConnell Limited); 4. Part of Lot 33, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Parts 5 and 6 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21875 (previously describedonDraft ReferencePlanNo.O.L.S. File#17-94-12prepared byCunninghamMcConnell Limited); 5. Part of Lot 33, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Parts 1 and 2 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21874 (previously describedonDraft ReferencePlanNo.O.L.S. File#17-94-13prepared byCunninghamMcConnell Limited); 6. Part of Lot 32, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21874 (previously describedonDraft ReferencePlanNo.O.L.S. File#17-94-13 preparedbyCunninghamMcConnell Limited); 7. Part of Lot 33, Concession 1, South of Dundas Street designated as Part 10 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21063. LimitedTemporary Interest (Temporary Easement) 1. Part of Lot 31, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Parts 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8 on Reference PlanNo. 20R- 21049; 2. Part of Lot 33, Concession 1, South of Dundas Street designated as Part 10 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21063; 3. Part of Lot 33, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Part 7 on Reference PlanNo. 20R-21064; 4. Part of Lot 32, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street designated as Parts 15 and 16 on Reference PlanNo. 20R- 21073. We want to hear from you! Engaging with residents, businesses and community stakeholders helps Halton deliver high-quality Regional programs and services. Your feedback is valuable and helps informmany important Regional plans and projects. To make it easier for you to get involved, Halton has developed a new Opportunities to Participate webpage on halton.ca that features Regional initiatives that are currently accepting feedback in one convenient online location. The webpage will be updated with new projects as they are available--from online surveys and forms to online public information sessions and workshops. To find your next opportunity to participate, visit halton.ca. Gary CarrRegional Chair Halton police say the number of robberies, break-ins and vehicle thefts in Oakville dropped in 2020, and they expect this trend will continue this year. During a presentation before Oakville council, Det. Sgt. Ron Wright noted there were 31 robberies in 2020 compared to 39 in 2019. Break-ins to homes saw a significant drop from 204 in 2019 to 114 in 2020. Thefts of vehicles also fell from 191 incidents in 2019 to 180 in 2020 while thefts from vehicles went down from 557 incidents to 420. Police pointed out that of the 2020 robberies in Oak- ville 90 per cent were cleared through someone being charged or through some other method (e.g. youth being sent to a diver- sion program). Last year also saw police clear 48 per cent of the local residential break-and-en- ter cases, 33 per cent of the auto theft cases and 23 per cent of theft from vehicle cases. Wright said the CO- VID-19 pandemic has hin- dered crime in some ways, but helped it in others. "One of the crimes that has substantially de- creased during the pan- demic has been our resi- dential break-and-enters. Of course, that is attributed to the fact that a lot of peo- ple are now working from home," said Wright. "For auto theft I would say COVID has hampered us slightly because with people working more from home their vehicles are parked out on their drive- ways and that gives these suspects an opportunity to figure out what they are looking for and exactly where these vehicles are." While overall the num- ber of vehicle thefts in Oak- ville went down during 2020, Wright said officers are seeing an increase in re- lay/technology-based auto theft. He said this involves criminals attending a resi- dence and using a device to relay the frequency of a ve- hicle's key fob to a comput- er, which is then used to re- program a new key fob the thief then uses to steal the vehicle. Police have made multi- ple recent arrests in con- nection with these thefts and have provided tips to the public on how to keep their vehicles safe. The downward trend seen for property crimes in 2020 is expected to continue in Oakville with Wright projecting 2021 will see ap- proximately 26 robberies, 35 residential break-and- enters, 154 vehicle thefts and 277 thefts from vehi- cles. He does believe there will be more business break-ins with 75 incidents projected for 2021 com- pared to 55 that occurred in 2020. Halton Police Chief Ste- phen Tanner said mental health related calls are on the rise as is heavy drug use. He warned that just like in the rest of Canada, fenta- nyl use is an issue in Oak- ville. Police also talked about their priorities, which included reducing the number of related or re- peat crimes. Inspector Cole Repta noted that in the past if there were 10 incidents of people stealing packages left on people's doorsteps, 10 officers would investi- gate those incidents sepa- rately. Now that information is vetted by the Oakville Criminal Investigations Bureau and those incidents are investigated together. Traffic safety, with a fo- cus on combating im- paired, distracted and ag- gressive driving along with commercial motor vehicle safety enforcement and ed- ucation, was listed as an- other priority. Equity and inclusion came next with Repta not- ing police want to reduce the number of hate crimes and hate incidents in Oak- ville. The final priority looked at mental health and addic- tions. Some of the goals for this priority include: reducing the number of suicides, cre- ating better outcomes for people in crisis, and reduc- ing crime which can be at- tributed to mental health or addiction related issues. Repta said police intend to achieve these goals through better officer training and by better con- necting people with servic- es they need following a cri- sis incident. This way the person is more likely to get help as opposed to going back into crisis and requiring police attention again and again. HALTON POLICE TALK CRIME TRENDS AND MORE DAVID LEA dlea@metroland.com NEWS