You are, you're good. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and
they took my gavel away. So. There we go. Now
we'll make it official and welcome to the last meeting
of the summer of the Haldeman OPP Detachment Board. I
hope everybody else had an enjoyable summer so far. It's
coming to an end in much, much too soon. And
also, I just want to remind members, myself included, that
while we have a gallery of one by the look
of it, thank you, thanks for attending. There are people
who are watching this live, and there are people who
will stream it at a later date, including the press.
So I know it hasn't been an issue, but let's
remember that we are open and transparent. Land acknowledgement.
I. Forgot how to do my - Someone's still on
summer vacation mode here. As we gather, we humbly acknowledge
that Haldeman County sits on the ancestral land of many
generations of indigenous nations who have been here since time
immemorial. Today, this land continues to be home to many
indigenous peoples, including the Six Nations of the Grand River
and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations, as well
as non - Indigenous settlers from a variety of backgrounds.
As a community, we have a shared responsibility for stewardship
of the Land on which we live and work. We
are grateful for the opportunity to work together and to
share the land we all call home. Acknowledging reminds us
that our living conditions are directly related to the abundant
resources of the indigenous peoples. We commit to continue learning,
reflecting on our past, and working in allyship with indigenous
communities towards respective community goals and objectives in peace, respect,
and friendship. The roll call has been taken, and we
find a member of la form is not able to
attend on other activities, actually, and she notified well ahead
of time that she was not going to be able
to attend. Have we heard from member Bentley? She advised,
she's going to try to make it, but it's unlikely.
She'll... Okay, she may be tied up on some of
her other hat business. She may have joined us, she
may not. And aside from that, and the Detachment Commander
is all by himself this morning as well. So his
staff sergeants are obviously on other duties. Any of them
on summer breaks now, are they some of them are?
Okay, thank you. Disclosure of pecuniary interests. None noted. Approval
of the previous meeting minutes. Motion that the minutes of
the June 25, 2026 Haldeman OPP Detachment Board Meeting be
adopted as circulated. Mover Shaw, second member McCaskill. All those
in favor. Oppose that is Carrie unanimously. Next recommendation, looking
for a mover in a seconder that the minutes of
the closed session of the June 25th, 2026 Haldeman OPP
Detachment Board meeting, be as adopted as circulated and remain
confidential. Mover McKeen, Seconder. A membershaw. Questions
or comments on that. None, all those in favor. Opposed
that has carried unanimously. And next we move on to
Delegations and Presentations, and we're pleased to have with us
this morning, one of our partners in Crime Prevention and
Safety in the Community. The Crime Stoppers have Haldeman and
Norfolk, and we have listed on the agenda is the
chair Lillian Wilson, but Amy Bernardo, the program coordinator will
introduce who she has as a replacement instead. Welcome, ladies.
Good morning, everybody. Thank you once again for having us
this year. I'm going to introduce this is Tory Bertrand,
and she's a board member with our program. Hello, thank
you all for having me. This is my first time,
so this is exciting stuff. Yes, I want to thank
you guys for having us here today. As a non
- profit charitable organisation, we continue to bring together the
community, the media, and law enforcement in the fight against
crime. And we're pleased to provide an update on our
annual achievements here today. So this is exciting. Um, this
year, Mercs are 38th anniversary, a milestone that would not
have been possible without the continued support and partnership of
our local law enforcement agencies. We are proud of the
collaborative work we share in educating the public and raising
awareness, surrounding illegal activity while promoting the values of safety,
empowerment, and inclusion throughout the communities. 2025 was again a
really good year for crime stoppers. We saw a lot
of movement and more reports than in 2024, so that
was good. Um, we had over, or we had 499
new reports, so that's an increase from 42 reports from
2024. Um, these reports led to 31 arrests and 143
charges being laid. In addition, crime stoppers tips assisted in
recovering 11, 800 dollars in property and seizing over 14600,
000 dollars worth of substances, which is over twice the
amount seized in 2024 with our tips contributing to that.
Um, and as an organisation, funded entirely through donations and
grants, we continue to face ongoing challenges of sustaining our
operations and reward program. In 2025 alone, crime stoppers authorized,
3, 475 in rewards for tips received. These rewards are
essential to the crime stoppers program and encourage those who
have information to come forward. Um, so that's kind of
the basis of our program. So obviously very important. Our
fundraising efforts rely solely on the generosity of individuals, businesses,
community organisations, um, our funding from 2025 came through our
annual golf tournament, community barbecues, raffle ticket sales are shredding
events, and other charitable contributions such as yourselves. Um, our
volunteer Board of Directors has grown in 2026. Uh, this
year, actually I have taken over the rule of secretary.
So after three years on the board, um, there was
some movement for me there. Um, we have other new
board members joining as well. So that's been awesome. Throughout
the year, our board remains actively involved in local fairs,
parades, and community events across Haldeman and Norfolk, promoting a
program we deeply believe in. These events provide valuable opportunities
to increase public awareness and encourage individuals to anonymously come
forward with information that can help keep our communities safe.
Crime stoppers is sincerely grateful for the support and donations
previously provided by your organisation. And we respectfully ask that
you consider a contribution of 5, 000 dollars to assist
in continuing our work, sustaining our programs and strengthening our
ongoing efforts in the fight against crime with our communities.
Um, and thank you again for your consideration. Thank you
very much. Any questions, comments to the presentation. Just want
to check on a rumour out there. I understand that
your recent golf tournament that you told me was extremely
successful that Inspector Fox led the PAC. I mean, that's
what he's been telling me. Um, we'll let him continue
to chat if that's what's happening. Um, but yes, our
golf tournament was very successful and we just had it
held at last Thursday at the greens of Renton. Um,
we had a great turnout. It was very successful, yes.
That's great. That's great. No further questions or comments. I
do have a recommendation that I'm looking for a mover
in a seconder that the Delegation from Crime Stoppers of
Haldeman and Norfolk agree the 2025 annual update and funding
request be received. And that they hauled up an OPP
Detachment Board support the Crime Stoppers of Haldeman and Norfolk
2026 initiative with a and its blank. So for our
consideration, donation from the donations gift budget. Over in a
secondary, and we'll fill in the blank. Um, member McCaskill,
member McKeen. Stuart, would you like to fill in the
blank or would you like further discussion. Okay. There we
are. Um. Very quickly, uh, before we get to that
blank, before I draw a blank, I command you, Anto
Crime Stoppers. It's your own song Heroes, and we don't
know names and faces, but we see results. You know,
and I totally believe that without you're doing what you're
doing beyond the direct results, the indirect repercussions of what
you do that are a noticeable, are paramount. And that
is people know you're there. People know that crime stoppers
is in the area. That prevents stuff before it happens.
If we force somebody reports it. So thank you very
much. And for your presentation. Back to the blank. I
think the request was for 5, 000. Am I right?
I support that and more, whatever the, uh, the council
would suggest. I'm going to ask the administrator budget wise
where are we? So there are always budget considerations. Um,
any amount that you're donating is coming out of the
Board Reserve. Typically, um, for Crime Stoppers, we, they come
and they request 5, 000 dollars. And in previous years,
about 1, 200, I think that was up a little
bit from the previous year. I'm not sure the rationale
about the increase. I can imagine inflation was on everybody's
mind. Um, so that's a, like it's really up to
you folks to decide whether you feel that that amount
is appropriate. Um, our budget for donations as far as
that goes. Um, 5, 000 is significantly higher than typically
we would have budgeted for this and for this donation.
And we also did, um, uh, purchase those, uh, handheld
radars for the OPP Detachment as well this year, which
is, you know, again, it comes out of the reserve.
If that's the direction you folks want to go in,
it's your decision. I can't tell you what to do
or not do. I can just tell you what we've
done in the past and what the budget is built
to absorb.
There we are. Um, understand that. And thank you, Sandra.
And by the way, good to see you. We didn't
have a chance to stop by before. The whatever then,
I guess the blank would be because of the importance
of crime stoppers throughout our community. Whatever the board could
have comfortably afford or even risking a bit of comfort,
uh, that we proceed with whatever would the funding would
allow for crime stoppers. And thank you. Okay. So the
recommendation is for 5, 000 dollars at this particular point
in time. Okay. Leave us all your hand. I'm sorry.
Um, I, I am an accountant at heart. So I
sadly would say that I think we should stick closer
to the amount that we agreed on. I mean, if
in future, that we find that we have a surplus,
then we can always give more. We can't give if
we don't have. If we're taking away from something else,
then I would say closer to last year's amount, possibly
1500. It may not be, you know, maybe not be
the news that you want to hear. But I'm very
physically minded. So it's a board decision. That's my opinion.
Okay. Uh, Ben, uh, just need a shot caller.
So we have 5, 000 dollars, one recommendation. I let
him recommend for, and I'm going to call them in
the order that they were presented. All those who can
support 1, 500 dollars. So it's 1, 500 dollars.
You guys turn your microphone. Yes.
It was. Never put on the floor. You didn't have
a. No, it was left blank. Right. Right. Okay. So
the motion that we have is that the Haldoman OPP
part two clauses is that the Haldeman OPP Detachment Boards
support the crime stoppers of Haldeman Norfolk 2026 initiative with
a 1500 dollar donation from the donations, gifts, budget slash
budget. Moved by member McCaskill, seconded by member McKeen. Right.
Okay. And then we're going to vote on that. Let.
It be amended. To 1500 dollars. Well, we didn't have
any motion on the floor then other than the update.
On the floor. That was blank. The blank. And you're
changing the blank. You're amending the blank. And so you
have to vote to amend the blank and then you
have to go back to vote on the main motion.
Just, just, just no wonder Donald Trump is as crazy
as he is. Okay. So we need, you heard all
of that. All those in favor of amending the emotion
that never made it to the floor. Okay. The pose
that's cared. That's carried. And now the amended motion is
that Haldeman OPP Detachment Boards support the crime stoppers of
Haldeman and Norfolk 2026 initiative with a 1500 dollar donation
from the donation slash gifts budget. All those in favor
that's moved in seconded by Stuart and by Deborah. All
those in favor. Opposed that's carried unanimously. Thank you very
much, uh, ladies. I think you know what, what went
on here. You're probably not too surprised, I would think
Amy either. There is one thing here. Okay. There is
one thing here though. And I wish the notation could
be made here that we look at increasing our donations
and gifts budget. Because this happens time and time again.
And Amy, I don't have to tell you. I've been
here for four years for requests every single time. We
haven't got money. We haven't got money. And it's true.
We don't. I support what was just done. I think
it would not be in our best interest as a
board to start taking money out of reserves that we
know are not going to be replenished by new policy
off the OPP at the higher level. At the government
level actually. And that is that you no longer receive
proceeds from auctions and surplus funding and things like that.
So that's going to be zero in short order. And,
uh, as you heard, uh, we purchased a couple of
handheld radar guns for our detachment. Uh, good use of
the money. And I'm sure that the detachment commander will
have more good use of additional funds for next year
as well. He should. Okay. Uh, Leslie, thank you for
your patience. Hi Amy. Good to put a face to
your name. I'm Councillor Leslie from Ms. Soggle Credit First
Nations. And I know you did a presentation that I
missed. Sorry about that. But I was wondering in your
opinion, if you thought it went well. And if you
ever considered reaching out to donations to Chief and Council.
Yes. Um, I did a presentation a few weeks ago.
I thought it went very well. Um, we did have
quite a bit of engagement from the audience, which was
fantastic and wonderful. That's what we want, right? We want
questions. Um, and I went down there was for an
education piece, right to explain to the people what our
program is, who we are, what we're all about. Um,
maybe to give peace of mind to some about anonymity,
um, right. Anonymity is the heart of our program. That's
not an option. Right. Anonymity is a must. Um, so
I'm really trying to convey that message that when you
call Crime Stoppers or submit via the web, it is
a hundred percent anonymous. So yes, the, the, um, presentation
went well, um, in terms of reaching out, or sorry,
are you saying for funding? Is that what. You're. Going
to do. Yeah. We got it. For our donation like
you are approaching this board. I'm not going to lie
to you. I have not thought of that. Um, and
that is certainly going to be a discussion. Um, we
actually have a board meeting this evening, um, but that's
going to be a discussion that the, the board, um,
I will definitely bring it forward. And the board can
have that discussion. Um, so I'm not going to lie.
I have been the coordinator for about 10 years now.
Um, and I'm working closely. I've worked closely with Rod
LeClaire concept of Rode LeClar for a while. Um, this
is something that I'm, it's near and dear to my
heart. I'm trying to get out there. We are trying
to be more present in that the Mississauga, the credit.
It's not an area that we've, or I have been,
you know, two previous years. So I'm really hoping to,
to make it this way hence, you know, we did
the presentations, et cetera. Um, I actually attended, um, at
the Detachment just a couple of weeks ago. Um, uh,
an information session, I guess you would say, um, an
indigenous training kind of, um, and that was, it was
amazing. It was wonderful. Um, so I am hoping we
are hoping the board to get out that way more
often. So that will be a discussion. I mean, Tori,
as a board member is right here. This is something
that will come forward tonight at our board meeting, um,
for sure that we would definitely. Thank you. Well, I
know that Chief is wanting to promote the services more.
And I know there's that fear and that trust. That's
why we asked you to come do the presentation. And,
um, yeah, because we want to try to help out
as much as we can as well. Who's the chair.
I keep forgetting. Just to back up what you said
and also to agree with Deborah. I understand fiscal constraints,
but crime stoppers is crime stoppers. It's a prevention thing.
If we allow only funding, that's retroactive, i. e. what's
happened past years. To allow us that luxury of that
amount of funding fall short of the mark, in my
opinion. If we want to prevent crime, and this is
a Haldeman County thing, not just any localized, if we
want to prevent crime and deter the cost of taxpayers
of further crime, it's well invested money. And wherever that
might come from, from, from council or from any board,
has huge merit, in my opinion. So that's where I
stand with any of this. And thank you very much.
Okay. Thank you very much. And again, thank you very
much for your presentation and have a good rest of
the summer. Moving ahead to the items for consideration, uh,
next is the report from the Detachment Commander. Before we
get into it, I'll look for a mover and a
seconder that the report from the Detachment Manner for the
months of June and July of 2026 be received as
presented. Mover. Shaw, Secondar McKeen, thank you. And, uh, Inspector,
Europe. Thank you, Chair. And through you. Good morning, everybody.
Um, this report will be for two months, June and
July. Uh, 2026. And I'm going to turn your attention
to the first page of my report, which would be
page 10. On your, uh, documentation there, I believe. Um,
unfortunately, we had three fatal collisions. Um, in those two
months, um, which is up significantly from last year. We
only had one in that period of time. Um, currently
we're sitting year to date. At four fatal collisions. Um.
So there's been an increase, uh, from last year, unfortunately.
Not as bad as 2024, but there has been an
increase in fatal collisions from last year. Um, of significant
note on page 11 there. Two of those three in
the past two months were alcohol related. And I'll point
out some stats in the following pages that way to
allude to that a little bit. Um, so if I
bring your attention to page 12 and your report, you
see at the top, this talks about criminal code provincial
statute charges laid. So criminal code non traffic. You'll see
that's down about 50 percent. And I personally don't see
that as a concern. I see that as, as a
good thing because you're non - traffic, that's going to
be your assaults, um, other criminal code offences. Um, causing
victimization to the community. And the fact that those are
down, I think is a good piece. And I'll speak
to that when we get to the violent crime, uh,
section as well. Um, criminal code traffic. You'll see through
June and July, that's up a hundred percent. It's up
20 from last year's June and July months. Um. Your
criminal code traffic, most of those are going to be,
there could be disqualified drive, but most of those are
probably going to be impaired, uh, drug and alcohol related,
uh, charges. Um, so I think that speaks to, um,
as we saw the two fatalities that were alcohol related,
um, and further down the page, uh, before I discuss
speeding, if you look at impaireds, you'll see that this
year, uh, for June and July, we had 21 as
opposed to 12 last reporting year. Um, so we have
been, there has been an increase in impaired charges, whether
that's through proactive or through the community calling in traffic
complaints. Um, regarding possible impaired drivers. Um, we have seen
an increase there. Just above that, you'll see the speeding
charges for June and July compared to the last two
years were up significantly for those two years. And I
think as the Chair alluded to, uh, the two pieces
of equipment, the light or the radars handheld radars that
the board purchased was, uh, a significant investment for us
to assist in, uh, in that category. The next page
I wanted to bring you to would be 14 in
your report. And that's the violent crime. Um, so this
is where you see assaults, um, compared to the last
two years specifically last year are down. Significantly. That's the
assault slash firearms related offences. Um, and they're down significantly.
And I think that's why you would see the trend
that I talked about on the previous page, uh, where
criminal code non traffic charges were down. I think that's
the correlation there because we've had less reported by the
crime in those two months. Um, and year to date
for Assault's firearms with a defence, as you can see,
we're down compared to the last two years. Um, by
39. 1 percent. On page 15 of the report. I
want to bring to your attention because this will also
come up in, uh, further agenda item later on. You
will see for June and July theft under 5, 000.
It's down from 62 last year to 43. So we've
seen a decrease over those two months this year. Um,
and year to date, uh, compared to last year, we're
down 66 for theft over 5, 000. And I bring
that one to your attention because a lot of times
that relates to thus from vehicles, um, when we're getting
hit for those pieces. Um, overall, if you look at
property crime, you're going to see there's decreases in every
category, which is significant. Um, property crime is obviously one
of the hardest crimes for solvability rate. Clearence rates that
is in the report as well. Um, that's why programs
like Crime Stoppers or so very important because they do
provide us some information that we sometimes lack in order
to investigate those crimes. The next page I want to
draw your attention to is page 20 in your report.
The first part there is public complaints. Um. You'll see
that there was three in those two months and they
were in relation to, uh, conduct. Officer conduct. Further down
the page. The Inspector, just a comment or a question
on that. So there are three and they're currently being
investigated. Is that? Yes, that's correct, Chair. And. It was
the board made aware of the resolution of those whatever
way it goes. At this point in time, there is
nothing in our Detachment Board Report that provides that. Uh,
I think we've discussed the previous meetings, uh, Inspector Heimers
sits on a working group. He's the Detachment Commander in
Oxford County. And he sits on our working group and
he was going to bring this back so that hopefully
if the monthly there would be kind of a year
- end wrap up to kind of indicate whether any
of these incidents were founded or unfounded. So he's bringing
that forward to the working group and I'm not aware
of any changes currently. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Continuing
on daily activity reporting hours. You see there was an
increase in patrol cruiser patrol hours, which is up to
1, 811. Um, patrol marine hours. You'll see during those
two months we had more. So we did receive, we
didn't receive any marine training this year. Um, last year
we did have, I think, at least one, possibly two
officers where marine trained, um, so we did increase some
of the hours there from marine training. Um, ATV trading.
You'll see there's been a decrease over the past two
years. Uh, I've discussed this before in, uh, in previous
meetings, uh, ATV training is, is very tough to get.
Um, we're, we're constantly asking for seats on the course.
Unfortunately, um, a lot of our senior members are the
ones that are trained and they're either retiring or moving
into positions. I was eight where I am ATV trained.
Um, and just not in a position to get out
there for some of those patrols. So unfortunately those are
down compared to the last two years. Um, foot patrol
hours, uh, you see that's, that's up and. It's not
up a hundred. Sorry. It's at 159. 75 hours. So
that is an increase over the past two years for
foot patrol, which has been a priority of the board.
So we keep working on that as well. Okay. Just
on the patrols, uh, Inspector. And I can't totally recall
now. Because in the last three, four days, as you
know, I've received some emails that have been forward by
some members of the board. And, uh, and, and from
the county. And some of the concerns are that the
community is saying, we're not seeing the officers and all
that. And, and really from what you've just reported now.
And in the last few months going back through my
memory, going back. The cruiser patrol hours are up and
they're up rather significantly. I mean, we've got an example
here from, from, uh, 1400 to 1800. That's 400. That's
pretty significant increase. Uh, and the foot patrols are up.
Whether they're where they should be or not, but a
lot of the concerns are, well, we're not seeing the
police officers. I don't know how the Board addresses something
like that. Um, or you address something like that when
you receive the complaints, because they get transferred over to
you, whether you have them or not. And I know
figures can lie, but the figures that we have are
showing that the opposite should be. The norm here. And
it has been the norm for the past several months
and possibly for the whole year. Um, any comments on
that. I mean, it's through your chair. I think one
comment I could definitely make. So vehicle patrol. That's going
to be when an officer is on patrol, you know,
in their zone going through neighbourhoods, um, let's be honest,
we work 24 seven. So a lot of that could
be at night when members are sleeping and they're not
seeing that. Also, as you know, the increased traffic enforcement
focus here in Haldeman County, uh, by the Detachment, which
we've seen the, um, highway traffic stats and traffic enforcement
stats have increased. When officers are doing any kind of
proactive patrol for, uh, speed enforcement or anything like that.
They're putting down vehicle patrol. So that kind of increase
that you see in there is why you would see
an increase in those patrol hours as well. Right. Um,
unfortunately sometimes people say they don't see the police. And
that's, uh, that's a perspective at that point in time.
Right. I know I've travelled from my home up to
Thunder Bay to see my son. And in that point
in time, I never saw, you know, maybe a cruiser
on the highway at that point in time. But they
could have been off investigating somewhere else. And I mean,
throughout your entire day, there's a perspective on that piece.
I like the stats that we're showing. We are increasing
the enforcement. We're, we're out there definitely as much as
we can be. Um, we still have administrative components to
look after, um, yeah, I think the officers have definitely
been out in visible in the community. Have you made
this a priority with the Detachment. Visibility in the community.
Yes, absolutely. And I think that the increase in vehicle
patrol and foot patrol speaks to that. Um. Yeah, so
a hundred percent, that's a priority for the community. Okay.
And, and you and I meet on a regular basis
and so on. So that answer doesn't surprise me. But
I think we should get that on the record and
out into the public. That it is a priority with
this detachment through you. That is correct. Leslie. Oh, sorry
who was in. The history of microphone. Yep. She was
asked. So in my opinion. Not seeing the OPP tells
me that there's lack of crime. That's just my opinion.
However, what he was stating is true. Like you might
not see the OPP over here in Hagerzville, but they
could be out in Dunville. That it's a big area
that they have to cover. So not everyone is going
to see them all the time. And that depends on
the community's vision and what they mean by seeing them.
Do they want them at all their events? That kind
of scene where they want to see in roaming around,
writing around. So it's, it takes into a whole bunch
of factors. So as long as we know he's on
the job, we got. It. Thanks, Leslie. Good point. Uh,
Deborah. Um, I'm going to paraphrase the mayor. Hopefully I'm
not misquoting her, but I believe she has had, um,
voice conversations and possibly emails from members of the community
that have said they've seen a noted increase in foot
patrols in areas. And they're very happy for it. So
it's not that you're not being noticed everywhere. Just that
you may not be hearing about it. So I hope
that I got that right, Shelly. So she gets back.
She'll let me know. Thank you. And actually, I think
I reported the last time when staff Sergeant Brown and
I presented to the annual report to the council, every
member of council who spoke. And that was everyone but
one said that they had seen an increased visible presence.
Because that was really good news. I think I reported
that back at our last meeting. So, um, but however,
the people are saying, I'm not seeing, I'm not sin.
That can't be discounted either. But it's lessly points out.
You can't be everywhere all the time. Go ahead, Inspector.
Stewart, I'm sorry. Through the chair. Agree with everybody. One
thing personally, I've seen a big increase in our little
rural area, around the only perked over. And I go
up and down the cost of a year, I get
all the way up to Dunville and to Port Rowan.
And I've seen a marked increase. And sometimes you won't
see them because they're in Unmark cruisers. And so watch
your gas pedal. But I think it's working very, very
well. And, uh, the crime is down, obviously. And, uh,
except for the, that's going to happen with booze. So
thank you very much. No, congratulations. Okay. Inspector. Thanks Chair.
And through you and to a point you just made
there. Right. Every, um, concern that's brought forward by a
member of the community here in Haldeman. It's definitely not
discounted because I feel that we're out there. We might
not be aware of concerns going on in certain areas.
So if that's brought forward, that's where we can do,
uh, analysis and see, have we been spending any time
there is the concern validated by some of the analytics
that we have that people have been reporting it and
it has been addressed. And then we will try to
refocus, uh, resources appropriately for to address some of these
concerns, um, as available. Continue on
page 23 in your report. Even though this is for
Haldon County, I'll be speaking to this with, uh, when
I quickly go through the MCFN report, um, this is
obviously a concern, uh, which is our over to dose
occurrences. In June, July, there was one, uh, fatal. And
that was opioid or that was Don OPI to overdose.
But there was also two non fatal. And those were
both opioid overdoses. And the concern is looking obviously at
year to date. And when you're comparing to the past
24 and 25, um, there's large increases there given the
circumstances, uh, with eight now fatals in 2026. Um, four
non opioid and for opioid overdose. And, um, I'll be
honest with you, some of those stats, as far as
whether they're opioid or non - opioid, those could change
as we get, uh, information back from the centre of
forensic sciences, on the toxicology reports, um, from the fatal
occurrences. Um, and the non - fatal, as you can
see, 11 of those were, uh, opioid overdose occurrences. Uh,
so what I can say, you know, I've mentioned in
the past, we do have, uh. I'm just going to
bring up that piece right now from crying. We have
our, uh, criminal investigations branch and other, uh, OPP supports
involved. But just as a follow - up from our,
uh, Detective Crime Sergeant, uh, regarding opiate overdoses, um, so
postmortem and toxicology reports have concluded the fentanyl, fluorofental, uh,
which I wasn't aware of. Another illicit drugs were directly
attributed to the fatal and non - fatal overdoses in
Halloween County. Um, and our investigators are continuing to work
with Regional Municipal Police Agencies. You know, it transcends into
different service areas. And our OPP support services mainly our
criminal investigations brand and analytics in order to identify the
traffickers of illicit substances. So this is an ongoing piece.
Um, obviously if we get any crime stoppers tips as
well, that's, that's a big, big help. But I know
our community street team as well as our crime unit
are both engaged in. Our fatal overdoses and non -
fatal overdoses here in Haldeman County.
Moving on to the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
report. I didn't see any concerning trends. I'm going to
bring your attention to page 30. Um, that's the violent
crime. There was, uh, two assaults, firearms related occurrences in
2026. But not a serious bike that I have any
concerning trends. Well, Mr. Credit First Nation, uh, property crime,
there wasn't a lot of property crime report. I think
three incidents total for the months of June and July.
And then. The last piece in there I want to
bring your attention to is on credit first station. There
was, uh, fatal overdose between June and July, uh, and
one non fatal, um, overdose as well. So two for
Miss Sucker credit First Nation, which we know is a
small population based on the territory itself. Any further questions
or comments. Okay. Go ahead, Inspector. All right. I'm just
going to continue on with, uh, the verbal piece where
I provide information from some of our, uh, specialty positions
within the Detachment. Um, first of all, for a stat,
right events, which I know is not in our board
report, um, for the last two months, uh, we had
140 compared to 95 in 2025. And year to date,
I think we've had officers involved in 539 right events.
And the previous year to date was 383 right events.
Um, so I don't have any information report from, uh,
PC Tyler Loney. He's our new community engagement officer. Uh,
he's still getting his feet wet and getting into this.
And so I'll have more information to report. In September
from PC Loany. Uh, PC Graham Remple. He's our.
Member miracle. We've got a new system apparently that they
put in place over the summer break. Oh, it'll be
much better next time. I just wanted to comment on,
um, Detective Tyler. Inspector Tyler. The gentleman who you just
spoke about that you had no report on. I know
he has been in contact with some members of Ms.
Alakera First Nation to do some, uh, collaborating on some
assistants with safety, uh, teachings, I guess. So, so that
is one thing that I know he is doing. Thank
you, Member Miracle. Yes, PC Loni, uh, he's been very
busy. Uh, he's been very engaged with our yippee student,
few other things. So he just was not privy that
he needed to report back to me, uh, in, in
a timely fashion for this PC. And due to holidays
with our Detachment Administrative clerk as well as PC Loni,
uh, that's why I didn't have anything to report. But
no, he's been very engaged. Um, he's doing a lot.
I believe he was, this would come up in the
next report because it was August. I know he's been
out on Ms. Sucker credit First Nation a few times,
uh, been very engaged with the UFP student. We have
this summer, her last day is actually today. And I
think that, uh, they're organised in a barbecue for her,
uh, for her last day today. Um, and I think,
uh, she'll do quite well if she's still looking towards
a career in law enforcement. So hopefully we encouraged her
for that. Um. Member McKeen. Thanks. I also wanted to
comment on your officer that's doing a liaisoning. He wasn't
able to make the community watch meeting in Selkirk because
he was already otherwise engaged, but he did contact the
organiser and, uh, they had some great conversation and he's
going to try and make another meeting. So I can
say that he has been, he has been out and
about in the community, uh, we're really happy to have
him. Thank you, Member McCree. Um, so PC Graham Bremple,
he's our mental health liaison officer. Uh, he was very
busy in the months of June and July supporting people.
And I'm going to highlight a few things here for
homeless prevention. So he continued collaboration with homeless prevention services
with the county, uh, to support two individuals experiencing homelessness.
One was in Dunville and one was in Caledonia. Um,
both individuals were provided with available supports and resources. Unfortunately,
both declined any assistants at this point in time, uh,
but he, uh, is poised to stay engaged with them
in the near future. Um, our MSERT team, um, they
met with a homeless prevention team at the Star Motel,
uh, which is just outside of Jarvis. They had to,
uh, figure out in an exit. Different location for an
unwanted client there who is not following the program rules.
Um, so there was an eviction there from the Star
Motel, but they were able to find another place for
this individual. Um. He is also very gauged in mental
health training. So under the CSPA, the mental health training
that every officer has to take, um, the OPP were
engaged with Laurier University and it's for the, uh, mental
health crisis training. Um, so they've actually trained PC remple
as a trainer. We have several within West region. Um,
so all our members had to complete, um, online training,
which was four modules. Uh, prior to going and doing,
uh, in - person training and scenario - based training.
And that'll occur in the fall. And PC Remple is
one of the trainers. And we have several locations set
up through West region where our members will have to
go and take this training as part of the requirements
under the CSPA. Project lifesaver asked him this morning, we've
got nine clients currently on Project Lifesaver with two applications,
um, that they're reviewing, uh, at this point in time.
There were some at risk youth support. There was continued
meetings with health care providers from Dunville and McMaster regarding
at risk youth. Uh, the meetings focused on developing an
AxPlan to provide the youth with appropriate supports. We're working
toward reducing repeat calls for service. Uh, and inserting that
community member receives a necessary care within the community. And
then in regards to the mobile crisis response team, the
umtrice team in the two months, they covered off 52
shifts. Um. They were. Uh, they were working. Um, there
was 47 individuals that they serve specific to mental health.
And the diversion from the hospital based on their intervention
was 95 percent. 95. Yeah. Uh, PC Leclerc, who's the
provincial liaison team member, um, through June of July, he
continued to attend weekly meetings with FIFA Canada as well
as MCFN event planners. Um, and then he attended the
event on July 7th. From my understanding from Raude, it
went very well. I'm not sure if the attendance is
what was hoped, but it was, uh, it was a
good day. And one of those hitch. Rod also attended
MCFN community meeting with Crime Stoppers that we heard discussed
earlier this morning. Um, to educate the community on how
crime stoppers program works and it's effective as the build
of saviour community. I understand the response was good, but
obviously, uh, member miracle would be able to discuss more
on that. Officer Detective Constable Decker. He is our, uh,
Omap coordinator that we had him in recently this year
to discuss that role. Um, so total number of fenders
on Omap currently in Haldeman County. There's 24. There was
one new offender added in July 1st. Um, there were
six complaints checks conducted. Um, there was 10 breaches that
occurred. Um, GPS offenders being monitored in Haldeman. There's nine.
And Warren's executed in Haldoburn. Between the coordinator patrol and
judges order was 15. We have currently outstanding 74 warrants.
Um, which isn't bad. I think we're up over a
hundred before. So, um, Detective Consul Decker. He's doing a
great job at making sure we're on top of those
and looking for those offenders. Um. Yeah. As far as
the crime unit goes, the Detective Sergeant, I have already
touched on the opiate overdoses and they continue to work
diligently on that. I know members of his unit. There
was a human trafficking case and they were able to
support a mostly disturbed person who disclosed being a victim
of, uh, human trafficking. So they engaged services such as
the OPP antihuman trafficking unit and organised crime. If your
enforcement bureau, um, and actively and Canned, the Canadian border
services, I forgot them. And they're actively working to identify
further victims and party's responsible this. So it's an ongoing
investigation. The last piece I want to bring up, which
hasn't hit the news yet, but the Detective Sergeant said
I could bring it up. And it's probably going to
come out very shortly. Um, is in regards to a
historical missing person. Um, by the name of Robert Asher.
So he had not been hurted or seen of since
1981 from the Dunville area. Haldoman Norfolk Regional Police initially
investigated it. Originally investigated the missing person investigation. Anyways, just
recently, uh, the team that have investigators that has continued
to investigate this, um, they were able to, uh, it
was in October 25 further review of the file identified
a potential connection between Robert Achert and an unidentified human
remains recovered by NAG or regional police in Port Colburn
in 1982. So through the investigation, uh, and forensic review,
um, they were able to identify those human remains as
being Robert Asher. And the family members were made aware
in July. And my understanding and speaking with the Detective
Sergeant is the media release forthcoming this week. So that
concludes my report. And I'm available for any questions. Any
further questions or comments. Thank you very much. No, no.
The missile soggred First Nations report. Okay. You went through
it that fast. Through one or the other. There wasn't
any concerning trends. We touched on the Biomin Friday. Right.
Okay. The concerning was the opioid overdose. I told you.
No further questions or comments. Uh, they have a mover
and a seconder. They're the report be received as, uh,
information. Yeah. Uh, all those in favor pose that's carried
unanimously. Thank you. Thank you, Inspector. Review of the operational,
uh, budget that the looking for movement or seconder that
the board's financials and current reserve figures dated August 15,
2026 be received as presented. Mover. Stewart. Second at
McKeen, member McKeen. Any questions or comments on that.
The administrative tells me that we're pretty well in line
with everything. And, uh, and again, there's a comment that
I made earlier that I think we, unless, unless the
board is opposed to that approach of adding an additional
five. Because they understand the discussion going on with that
budget right now. Sandra. So through the chair, um, I'm
currently working with our finance division right now on developing
the 2027 budget typically we would bring that to the
October meeting. But those of you looking at your agenda
would have noticed the next item is that we don't
want to have that meeting. Um, so I'm hoping to
bring it to the next. I hadn't discussed previously with
them whether the, um, ability for us to increase our
donations budget. I will talk to them and see how
much pushback I get. Gotta try. Right. If you don't
ask the answers, always know. So yeah, so I'll, I'll
touch base with them. I've already, I guess I've been
in conversation with our financial analysts about, you know, but
our budget comes from, um, council and MCFN, you know,
in various portions. And we have to keep that in
mind that, um, that we can want all the things,
but we do have to keep in mind that the
money has to come from somewhere. Right. So, um, hoping
that we'll have that, um, something for you to look
at in September. Okay. All those in favor of the
recommendation. Posed carry. Did I do that vote. I don't
think I did, did I? I voted twice. No, he
didn't vote. No. Okay. I did the motion, the mover
in a second. Yeah. We'll get her. We'll get this
down yet. Uh, item number three,
cancellation of the October 22nd, 26 budget, uh, meeting. And,
uh, again, it's, um, it's being suggested because of the,
uh, the proximity to the municipal election. And the work
involvement. Uh, Police Services Board Administrator, of course, for other
hat, is she's largely involved in the municipal election. So
it's going to be, it's going to be kind of
tough. We have members actually three members who are involved
as participants and candidates in the elections. So it's, it's
kind of a very difficult time for everyone. That's the
rationale behind it all. Um, having said all that and
the information that you have in your package, uh, looking
for a mover in a seconder that the Haldomano PP
Detachment Board meeting scheduled for October 22nd, 2026, be cancelled
due to its proximity to the 2026 municipal and school
board elections. Remember McKeen, seconder, all those in favor.
Pose that's carried unanimously. Thank you. Unfinished business, the action
plan update, Inspector. You've got, we had the, um, we're
going to. Go to four, which is the November meeting
reschedule. Whereas they would be in your dentist. There's, Oh,
hold on here. Hold on. Let me get to my,
my pages. Yeah. It's on the main one. So four
is the November meeting. Yeah. We're changing the date, right?
Yeah. Okay. Or sorry. Right. I got it. Yeah. I'm
lying. Yeah. Thank you. Next item is the Recheduling of
the November 26th. 2026 board meeting, uh, and that is
looking for a mover in the seconder that due to
scheduling conflicts. The November 26, 2026 Haldeman OPP Detachment Board
meeting be rescheduled to November the 19th, 2026 at 9
40 a. m. in the council chambers at the Haldeman
County Administration Building. I always kneed
in, do you know. She won't be able to be
here either. Oh, you don't know. Yeah. I have to.
Go to school. That week. Okay. Anyone else know that
they're not available of that. Yep. Okay. All right. So
we'll move her in a seconder. I remember McKeen, membershaw.
All those in favor. Opposed. That's carried unanimously. And it'll
be noted, Sandra will make notation that you are not
available for that meeting. Okay. Now, thank you Sandra. Now
the action plan update Inspector Fox. This is the. New.
Order. Procedure that we're going to waive the procedure by
law. Uh, do the insurance renewal. We're doing that under
items to consider items of consideration. So under this one.
Okay. Okay. Hold on. You better have a good rapport
here. I'm never going to get to it. Uh, we
need, um, I think you received a late notification that,
uh, the administrator had received 11th hour information regarding the,
uh, group insurance. Um, that the, uh, that the board
is under and so on. And, um, as a result,
because of the time frames, um, it was decided that
we need to deal with that at this meeting rather
than at the September meeting. So move her in a
seconder that the procedural bylaw be waived to consider a
motion regarding renewal of the Haldeman OPP Detachment Board Insurance
policy. Mover. McCaskell, secondary member McKeen, all those in favor.
Pose that's carried unanimously. Thank you. And a mover in
a seconder and it would be whereas the insurer has
agreed to renew the OAPSB group insurance program for the
upcoming policy term beginning September 27th, 2026 with minor improvements
to coverage and limits as the previous term. And whereas
the insurer has confirmed that there will be a decrease
of 50 dollars in the premium for the renewal term.
And the annual premium will change to 3, 550 dollars
plus 8 percent tax. Therefore be it resolved that the
board hereby authorized the Board Administrator to proceed with the
payment of the annual insurance premium in the total amount
of 3, 835 dollars including tax to secure coverage under
the OAPSB Group Insurance Program for the policy term commencing
September 27, 2026. Sandra. Mover in a second or first.
Remember McCaskell and member Shaw. Sandra. So through the
chair, we are required to have insurance. We're sort of
a captive audience because we're a very particular organisation. Um,
the insurance, this is the same insurance that we've had
is just a renewal. They have let us know that
they have looked at how much we've used the insurance
as a group, I guess. And it decided the premium
go down a whole 50 dollars. And the improvements would
be that the, I'm reading this exactly. The aggregate limit
for the professional liability policies has been increased from 10
million to 20 million dollars. Sure. And then the rental
car physical damage coverage is being extended from non -
owned auto policy for active board members renting vehicles for
board - related duties in the amount of 50, 000
dollars of physical damage coverage included automatically. As long as
you're performing duties of the board and you're an active
board member. So those are the two things that they've
added or increased. Um, the renewal document otherwise is identical
to what we had last year, um. Okay. That's it.
Uh, all those in favor. Oppose that's carried unanimously. Thank
you. Now the long awaited action plan update from Inspector
Fox. Thank you, Chair. And through you, I'm not sure
it'll be as exciting as you may be hoping for.
Um, the basic update is that it has been finalised,
which I think it's been circulated to the board and
electronic format. I did print out, or I got our
print shop in GHQ to print me out, uh, a
few that I had for the Detachment to provide to
management and supervisors at the Detachment as well as some
of the folks looking after specific roles that would be
engaged in the action plan. Um, I've already had sit
down meetings with, um, some of the members that'll have
a lot of work to do in there as we
talked about PC Tyler Loney, uh, community watch programs and
some of those pieces, but it includes our mental health
liaison, our domestic abuse issues investigator. OMAP coordinator. I almost
left him out. Um, anyways, so they've all been engaged.
They're all aware of the action plan moving forward as
well as the entire detachment. They all have a copy
of it as well electronically. Um, but just to know
some of the commitments that we need to reach and,
uh, the actions that we're going to be looking to
take over the next four years of this, uh, this
Detachment Action Plan. It has not, I did a check
and it's not been uploaded to the OPPA as of
yet. Obviously it's available for public viewing. If they were
to log on today and see it attached to the
agenda, uh, but it, as soon as I find out
that it's been uploaded to the OPPA, sorry, I keep
saying OPPA. OPP. ca website. I'll make sure that, uh,
it's noted here. Okay. And then the Republican have a
good look at it as well. And I, and I'm
just quickly on here on the commitment summary roadways, waterway
and trails because this actually was a question that I
asked. In the action plan for the next three years,
because we're into the first year already. So for the
next three years enhanced proactive enforcement and visibility across our
detachment area by continuing to enforce the big four and
targeting local traffic safety trends on our roadways, waterways and
trails. So if anybody questions whether traffic enforcement is a
priority of this detachment or not, it's right there in
writing as you verbalized earlier in the meeting. Any questions
or comments on the, uh, action plan. I know that
the board had some direct involvement. Membershaw, member of la
form, uh, myself, member McKeen, of course. And sat down
with the Detachment Commander for a couple of meetings, actually,
to try to get the community perspective from, from our
end, plus all the outreach that you actually did yourself
through the Detachment for the community and specific interest groups
as well. So I think you're to be commanded for
that, I think is very, very reflective of what a
lot of us are hearing out there in the, uh,
in the community. So keep up the good work.
There you go. I agree. I was very impressed with
the whole process. We were included from the beginning, the
community was included. And even when they didn't get a
very good response from the community, you went back to
the community for more. So I'm very impressed with this.
I think it's well laid out. I think one of
the number one things in here, which we already talked
about is people have to contact the OPP in order
for them to know where the hotspots are. What is
happening? And there is a good process in place to
address those and I think we're in a really good
spot for the next four years. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay.
Thank you. All right. Do we have a motion for
that? It's just an information item. Okay. Thank you, Inspector.
Other business update on the Detachment Commander Performance Review. The
Inspector has the document that the Board presented with regards
to the review. And we're just waiting for response back
from the Detachment Commander. That's where that stands at this
point in time. And I understand in talking to Andy
a few days ago about it, that it's coming. He
has some other priorities and so on. But it is
coming and it's the timeframe. I think Sandra, it's for
the end of the year, isn't it? As far as
that goes, uh, and, and, uh, Detachment Commander tells me
that in talking with his colleagues were well ahead of
the curve on this particular issue from what he's hearing.
So we'll have that in timely fashion. Police governance, Ontario
Communications. The past little while the Inspector had been pretty
busy sending out, uh, emails and regarding regarding their annual
report. I think it's 60 some odd pages, uh, Sandra
and I decided that we weren't going to, uh, put
the paper on there, but you have a link if
you want to, uh, read the Inspectorates report. The governance
of policing Ontario, formerly the Ontario Association of Police Services
Boards has also been busy sending out, um, information pieces
and trying to boil it down to how it affects,
um, municipal police services, uh, not six nations, but indigenous
police service boards, but also OPP police service boards. So
the first item on Inspectorative Policing is on page 60.
And I think this is good for the public to
know too, because I think they lose sight of it.
And anything that our role is a police services board
or detachment board is different than it really is. Detachment
boards do not direct police operations. They play an important
governance role, however, in understanding the needs, the concerns and
the priorities of the communities within their detachment, uh, the.
First. Report that, uh, came through notice of issue that
came through actually was, uh, regards to hate motivation and
so on. And I actually had a board member who,
uh, and we're going to be putting it on the
September agenda. And it was regards how the detachment commander
and our detachment deals with hate related crimes and hate
related demons. As an example, that, that's sort of what
initiated the board members concern. We're going to have it
on the September meeting. You and I will be talking
before that, uh, Inspector, because I think this is the
first you've heard of this from me. Uh, so I'll
give you more in depth detail. And the board may
wish to consider, and this is from the governance of
policing Ontario, what information is available regarding hate motivated incidents
within our Detachment area. Community partners local groups and service
proprietors. And whether these issues are emerging as community safety
concerns. I guess the first thing is we can't say
that it doesn't exist. Of course, it exists all over.
But to what level? And that's the discussion you and
I will have when prior two, uh, bringing it back
to the table in September, because I don't know the
answers. You and I'm not talking with that. Uh, the
other thing. That was the first notice. Of the inspector
at the second, um. Notice was integrity. And what does
it mean for OPP Detachment Boards? And I've highlighted the
principles of legitimacy accountability, transparency, evidence - informed decision -
making and continuous improvement applies across Ontario's policing governance framework.
And informed oversight of the Detachment Performance, uh, which includes
meaningful engagement with the communities that we serve, thoughtful, strategic
discussions and ongoing board development. And they're saying that we
should question ourself, they being the police governance, Ontario, the
Associationists, saying you should question yourself as a board. How
does our board demonstrate integrity through the governance practices and
beyond legislative compliance? How do our governance practices strengthen public
confidence. And the other points in there and the information
that, uh, that Sandra provided as well. And finally, the,
oh, almost finally. A lot of the report from the
Inspectora of Policing Deals with anti - corruption because of
the situation that, uh, was it peel, uh, Inspector. Do
you remember. Was the Toronto Police Service. Yeah. Yeah. From
that, and, uh, and again, what does it mean to
on OPP Detachment boards, uh, integrity, accountability, transparency are fundamental
principles effective governance, regardless of the policing model. It's an
opportunity for the board to consider whether they are providing
informed civilian oversight. Asking thoughtful governance questions and receiving meaningful
reports from the Detachment Commander, understanding community priorities and concerns.
And continually strengthening the effectives of the board. So I
think as we go through the last three, four months
of our mandate as a board, that if we can
keep some of these things in mind and kind of
interlock inwardly and seeing, Hey, are we doing this? Are
we, you know, and I know that the inspectors told
me, Hey, you tell me what you want in the
reports as far as the process and the way it's
being presented in the formatting and so on. If you
want something more, if you want something less, if you
want it in a different way, let them know. And
he certainly will take it into consideration and provide us
the information that way. Uh, that's just, that's just one
item. And again, are we strengthening our self in our
effectiveness and the board? Do we have, do we feel
that we have, um, the pulse of the community. In
our discussions, in our questioning and so on. And I
think it's been said by a couple of members here.
Hey, we don't know. We're not around all the time
either. We have our own home basis outside of those
home bases. What's going on? Do we have the community's
pulse when we formulate questions when we have discussions with
the Detachment commander and so on? And if we don't,
then it behooves us to try to find ways to
get that to improve that. Okay. And, and I know
from working with you for some of you for four
years. And, uh, most of you for two, two and
a half years that we all kind of feel that
same way. We want to be reflective of the needs
of the community that we serve in large and the
territory. Okay. And finally when compliance isn't enough.
What's it mean for the OPP boards. Uh, and it
says that OPP Detachment Boards governance affectedness means more than
reviewing reports or meeting statutory obligations. Effective board's understand the
communities. They serve, not going to repeat myself. Meaningful questions
about policing priorities in comparison to community needs monitor local
action plan activity and sure governance discussions remain focused on
strategic oversight. Governance is strengthened when boards actively use the
information they received to support better decisions and improve accountability.
So there's a lot of work for us to do
and to continue to do, we can improve. Uh, anybody
can improve. The inspector can improve. His detachment can improve.
And he's striving to see that it does continue to
improve. And we as a board certainly will strive with
cooperation of the members to improve in our role as
board members, especially under the new community safety and policing
act, which has only been out for a couple of
years now. Okay. Any further comments or questions on this.
Okay. Thank you. Um. The next item on page
76 is the remuneration, uh, survey. Gets page 76.
One moment, please, Inspector of Policing annual. Portrait. If you've
noticed.
Oh, there it is. The report you have on page
76. Basically, the Police Governance, Ontario, uh, is looking to
OPP Detachment Boards Municipal Boards too as well. But, uh,
we'll be interested in the OPP Detachment Boards of Remuneration
Survey just to see what's, what's going on with other
boards. And that particular information. At the Ontario Association of
Police Services Board Conference. In Blue Mountain, in the Blue
Mountain area, this issue came up near the end of
the final day of the conference. What became pretty apparent
there was that, uh, police services boards were being remunerated
totally different. Some, as we do, had a flat fee
with additional per diems for board chairs and vice chairs.
No, just board chairs. And, uh, others were remunerated on
a per meeting basis. Um, and, uh, there was another,
there was another form of remuneration that escapes me right
now. However, when we got talking amongst ourselves with the
Ontario Association of Provincial, uh, of police services boards, what
also became apparent was that the activity of the boards
and the involvement of the boards were totally different. For
example, one person got up and said, well, my five
hundred dollars. I'm well compensated at five hundred dollars in
the meantime. And, uh, anyway, there was just no comparison
whatsoever. So here we are almost two years later. And
I think the now govern, policing Ontario. Formerly the OAPSB
has taken some of those questions and concerns into consideration
and they're going to try to do an apples to
apples comparison. That's going to be really, really difficult. Um,
I've, I forwarded, uh, this morning, actually just before I
left, I forwarded a copy of the survey, a link
to the copy of the survey to our administrator and
also to our vice chair, uh, membershaw. There's 35 questions
and some of them have multiple breakdowns in questions. So
with the, uh, with the Borton and Kelly, are you
OK sitting down with myself and Sandra in formulating the
response? They want one response, which I totally understand. So
if you're good with that, then we'll strike a committee.
They want a response prior to September the 11th or
by September the 11th. I think they'll take it any
time they can get it as far as that goes,
because this has been on the back burner for a
long time. Um, and, uh, will provide the information. Watch
your emails. We may have to reach out to you.
They want to know, for example, how much time do
you as a member put in on the police services
board? That's kind of important because then that goes to,
as I talked about the individual who was getting 500
dollars, and, uh, and actually, uh, Kelly and Deborah at
the last, uh, at the last conference, we were sitting
with a couple of members from the far north. And
their meetings last 15 minutes. Right. And then, yeah, and
it took some of them two hours to get to
a 15 meeting Detachment Board meeting. So is it an
effective meeting. Not for us to say, but we can
formulate our own, uh, opinion on it. So it's going
to be difficult to get apples to apples comparison, but
they're going to try. So Sandra, the chair, the vice
chair. And if you can come up, pull us for
an appropriate date and time. Okay. And, uh, we'll keep
you breasts. Pledge to let the boards that participate know
what the final result, uh, we'll be able to see
what our other colleagues are doing. Any further comments on
that. Okay. Upcoming meetings. Board member administrators
zone four meeting in Oakville, September the 16th. All members
and along with the administrator is invited to attend. This
is the first. These used to be held on a
quarterly basis. This is the first one. And the Detachment
Commander, you were there. Um, member McCaskell. This is the
first meeting since September of last year that was held
in Woodstock. They used to be quarterly. First one in
a year. Um, and as well, the Detachment Commander and
Board chairs meeting. And this date was set several, several
weeks before zone four, uh, notified us that they were
finally going to have a face to face meeting. Uh,
is going to be held on September the 25th. And
again, it will be in Brant County. So, uh, Inspector
Fox and myself will, uh, will be there. And, uh,
we'll be reporting back, um, the information and the dialogue.
And actually, as he mentioned of the, remember now when
you gave your answer that, yeah, that inspector was, uh,
was going to work on some sort of a closing
the loop on complaints. But there were legal things they
had to check into as well too, I believe. So
that probably one of the items that'll be on that
agenda. OPP News Portal. And this came out from the
fact that, um, there's articles that are appearing in the
press. They're appearing in the media. Um, and. The board
isn't receiving any of that particular, uh, information. Um, Andy
and I have had a couple of discussions about this.
And the last one was that, uh, he thought that
there had been a portal that had been released to
the board through the administrator's office. And it was, but
it was through a previous administrator and the message didn't
carry that they were to flow through to us. Sandra.
So I sort of joined as a Board Administrator midstream.
I'm going through, um, old documents and, um, and emails.
So the last communication I have about the portal would
have been from 2019. So it's really stale. Um, and
that information, I assume because there wasn't anything more recent
was that board members were given login options for the
OPP portal. So they could choose to get all of
these notifications. So this is just for your awareness would
be just notices about significant. Crime events or a lot
of the things that they publish in the, you know,
they have that OPP Detachment piece in the in the
local Haldeman press or local papers. Um, I get them
through the administrator email address. And I was under the
impression that you folks were all getting them as well
and didn't in the interest of not spamming anyone was
not forwarding them as such. So I'm not clear like
you folks were signed up or were not given the
option. You were not given the information to sign up.
So no. So I did reach out to the, um,
to the local media person from that portal where the,
uh, they originate from just to confirm that I can
share that information with you to create your own login
so that you could choose to get them directly to
your inbox. Um, just to sort of remove me as
a middle person, um, they are on holiday, haven't returned
yet. Um, so I'll keep you all posted on that.
Um, but I'm expecting to hear back probably in the
next week or so. And I'll just forward you. And
that way you folks could choose to sign up to
get these emails directly to your inbox so that you're
aware of these events as they happen. Looks like Inspector
Fox might have some comments. Yes, thank you. Thank you,
Sandra. Thanks, Andrew. And through you, Chair, I was just
quickly trying to look on my phone to see if
I could find the email. I know, um, Derek Rogers
out of West Region headquarters. I know he looks after
this, um, media portal. This news portal. And my understanding
is that, uh, and I could be wrong on this,
Sandra, but I don't know if everybody can sign up
to it. I know the PSB Administrator email has been
signed up for, for many years. Um, but I think
there might be a limit to the number of people
they sign up to it. You might get that information
back. So through the chair. Yeah. So that's what I'm
anticipating. I just wanted to confirm before again, I just
give everybody access and they perhaps shouldn't. If it looks
like there is a limited number of access or limited
amount of access, then I would be asking people, you
know, individual board members whether they are interested in receiving
them, in which case I just, excuse me, created distribution
list and pass them along as necessary. But the less
manual we can make it, the less likely we miss
something. And that's, that's what I'm hoping for. So stay
tuned. Next item corresponds from the solicitor general re OPP
municipal policing costs. And that is on page 78.
So in short, they're basically saying that, uh, no, no
municipality or that receives a bill is going to receive
one that is more than 11 percent. And that 11
percent does that take the subsidy that they provided into
consideration. We don't know. Because if you recall the last
bill, I think our neighbours to the west here received
a bill that was like 50 percent or 75 percent
higher than previous and Haldeman County had received a bill
that was substantially higher, but not as bad as Norfolks.
And, uh, basically throughout the province, they all received a
real increase. The province said, okay, this isn't sustainable. We
can't do this. And, uh, but I'm sorry, I never
thought of this until after you and I met when
we had talked about the agenda item. But so is
it, I'm hoping that they're going to say it's, no,
it's the substantized rate. Is in effect. And this is
no more than 11 percent once that rate is subsidized
by the province. But we'll see. So. I can't imagine
that they would. Increase it like, you know, a hundred
percent 75 percent. Plus another under 11 percent. However. Thank
you. Any questions on, on this. Okay. And the county
is paying the bill there. Leslie, how does, how does
that work for the Mississaugas of the credit First Nation.
Who pays your bill? Is it the band council. Yes.
The bank council pays it. I do have questions, but
I'm going to see if I can talk to you
first to put it on the agenda for next meeting.
And that is all we have listed on the printed
pages. You should have the attendance. Yep. It's here. It's
here. Under.
Other business. And this was a late addition to the
agendas that, uh, that you received probably four or five
days ago now. And regards to the collision reporting centre
service delivery model update. The Inspector, um, made the chair,
uh. Aware of changes that, uh, he would like to
consider, um, with regards to the collision reporting, uh, centre.
And I'm going to, uh. Turn it over to the
Detachment Commander. Yeah. Thank you, Chair. Through you, um, basically
the collision reporting setter. I think everybody's fairly aware of
it. It was new to who Haldoman OPP prior to
my arrival in 23. I'm not sure if it went
in in 21 or 22. Um. But, uh, the collision
reporting, centre, what it does is supposed to look after,
uh, minor collisions. Um, property damage, um, you know, vehicle
collisions embolding wildlife, et cetera. Um, we had an analysis
done. First of all, the Detachment, there's a few things
too that we're looking at. And quite honestly, the piece
we're looking at is, uh, discontinuing the collision reporting centre.
Um, the reason being is, uh, the front of our
detachment is not really set up for tow trucks to
be navigating the area to bring in vehicles that we're
damaged if they weren't drivable. Um, secondly, uh, when we
did a review of the analysis, obviously the main point
of a collision reporting centre is to redirect some of
our frontline services, um, the frontline members to other opportunities
they could be doing in the county. So when we
have the analysts, take a look at it. I think
there was just approximately over 900, uh, motor vehicle collisions
and Haldeman County in 2025 and approximately 420 were completed
by our collision reporting centre. Um, now the collision reporting
centre right now is currently staff by our Detachment clerks
at the front. Um, and it's the reporting mechanism isn't
as investigative intensive as I would like it to be.
Uh, when reviewing some of those calls for service, I
believe there's a possibility of for charges in many of
those collisions that occurred. And as we discuss about traffic
collision, uh, or sorry, traffic collision, traffic concerns within the
county, that's obviously, uh, very, uh, important topic. So, um,
I wanted to make you aware that that was something
we were kind of looking at and just some, uh,
feedback from the, uh, from the board in relationship questions
or comments.
So I love that centre is there. Because it's easy
to get to. However, I do agree with you that
they wouldn't be able to go out and inspect all
the vehicles and everything like that. I've had to use
it a couple of times, but on things where somebody
did something to my car. I don't know where I
went. I didn't notice it till I got home. And
went to all these different ones. They're like, nope, you
notice it on your property, go to Kyga. I'm like,
okay. So then I just recently got hit by a
turkey. I didn't hit it. It hit me. And I
had to go and report it because there is a
small damage in my vehicle just in case I need
it for insurance and such. So for that, them kind
of incident, it would be okay. But if it was
like a actual collision where two cars are hitting and
you have to do the tow trucks and everything. No,
I don't think it's set up for that. Andy. Yeah.
Thanks. And if I can just replay to that, uh,
through you chair, uh, the difficult part in looking at
this is we can't, there's not really a hybrid solution
to running a collision reporting centre. Um, because there's a
certain scope of the type of collisions that are supposed
to be reported to the collision reporting centre. And I
wouldn't be able to just pair that down myself to
say certain, even a less, um, grouping of collisions to
reduce that to say we could only do this piece
there. Um, the dispatchers are taught and it's, uh, you
know, a standard operating policy procedure they have at the
comm centre when they receive the call to whether they
send it to a CRC or they dispatch a frontline
member to attend the collision. Deborah. Through
the chair. Um, I haven't used the Haldimen collision centre.
Thankfully. I haven't needed to. But I have used the
one in Windsor with a very minor incident of, uh,
our corner of our bumper being just clipped while the
car was parked and someone was sitting in it. And
they actually sent police officers to investigate it, which I
found very interesting. And then they said, Oh, it's a
minor incident and no one was hurt. Go to the
collision centre. Well, turns out they ripped all the sensors
off the front bumper of the car and 13, 000
dollars later. So trying to decide what the cost of
a repair is and trying to decide unless it's, you
know, it may look minor. But if you have two
people, you're going to have two different stories. I don't
know how the collision centre can, you know, make a
report that's going to actually give the insurance company, you
know, justification for who's going to pay for it or
who's responsible. So I think, you know, getting a hybrid
solution, better solution is a good idea because I don't
see the collision centres as being the answer to this
issue. Andy. Thanks, Chair. Through you, yeah, I believe our
collision reporting centre, we obviously, it's been done for many
years in the highway safety division, which is throughout the
GTA, um, where that's primarily our response is just to,
uh, the highways through those locations. And I think the
CRC has done very well there. Um, I think the
rollout to some of the, um, municipal locations within the
OPP has, you know, the challenges and it's kind of
different every way. I think the OPP may even be
doing a review on the collision reporting centre system and
the way it's, it's rolled out. Um, I know if
you go to several municipal services, um, municipal policing services,
a lot of the times they have a third party
company that they hire in order to conduct all collisions
at the collision reporting centre. Okay. Member McCaskill.
Through the chair. I got dinged in a parking lot.
A local major major store. And I wasn't even there.
And I did some damage to the car. And you
look at a car now it's 10 grand. I don't
care what you drive. Unless it's a wheelbarrow. I phoned
the OPP locally and I got a report number. And
gave that to my insurance company the way we went.
What I find disturbing is that insurance companies are now
using, uh, publicly funded police force. To enforce things that
they should be doing. If iPhone, my insurance guy and
say, I bet on an accident, I understand that if
I should phone the police, if it's of some nature.
But if not, my insurance people should send someone to
see what's going on. It's sort of like phoning a
major TV company and saying it's not working. You now
spend the next three hours after being on the phone
for three hours going through the technical terms with them
to fix your own TV. In other words, they don't
want to pay for anything. So in a way, the
police force is being utilised to do a service for
insurance companies. And I think that should be addressed. Uh,
I don't know how to do that. I was a
one person, but through counsel or through police hierarchy across
to insurance hierarchy, perhaps that should be bridged because that
puts a lot of time and effort on police services.
They could be used to answering calls. Supplied by community
watch people. Thank you. Thank you, Stuart. Yeah. Thank you.
Um, and through you, Chair. In response to that, a
little bit of, like we have a duty under the
highway traffic act to report collisions. And the damage threshold
years ago was, I think 2000 dollars. And it's, I
can't recall what year, a few years ago at least,
uh, it's been increased to 5, 000 dollars so that
if somebody's involved in a minor collision, um, where the
injury and damage appears to be under 5, 000 dollars,
if the members are good and exchange their information, they
can just go through their insurance companies at that point.
But it's that part of determining the 5, 000 dollar
limit and whether that happens after the fact that the
bit of a time delay there. Thank you. Member Shaw.
Just so I understand a bit through you, Chair. Understand
a little bit better. So are you hoping that the
collision reporting centre is going to stop? And what would
it look like if that did. Yeah. We're, we're looking
at discontinuing it based on, uh, the analyst and the
information that we've taken a look at. I feel that,
um. The investigative excellence for some of the collisions that
we're seeing come through the collision reporting centre, it would
be, um, done a lot better. Obviously the biggest concern
from command is that if we discontinue this, we are
putting, as you indicated, how would it be handled? It
would be handled by frontline officers. So we would be
putting, um, that workload back on the front line. And
when we did analysis of that, it worked out to
approximately, um, 10 extra calls per year per officer. So
a little bit less than one a month. Which we
believe is doable. So like I said, this is all,
the final decision made on this. This is something we're
just exploring. Uh, we have an upcoming management meeting with
our noncommittees are our surgeons, and, uh, the discussion, um,
that meeting as well in regards to this. Okay. Anything
further. Okay. All right. Oh, member miracle. To be honest.
I think a lot of the collision reporting is just
to get that number. To call your insurance, like, especially
those minor ones like me hitting a turkey. Well, if
I want to go through insurance, I need that police
report number. Nothing's under 5, 000 dollars anymore because even
though I have a little crack, this big in my
frame, they're going to have to take the whole part.
I haven't went through because insurance said, Oh, it will
probably jack your price up because you hit turkey. I
said, no, jump down and hit me. But that's a
whole, the whole other thing is. If there could be
a way maybe not through the police, but through the
insurance, Lake Stewart said, police are not doing insurance's job.
Why can't we call insurance and say, Hey, this just
happened. Why do I need a police number? Take picture,
send it in, whatever. Instead of having to involve the
police for those minor details. Okay. Good discussion on it.
Good thoughts, too. Okay. So you'll keep a surprise as
to how this ends up floating out again, because as
the, uh, Inspector has said, he may not even be
able to, uh, to do this depending on what the
higher ups have to, have to say. But we thought
you should be aware that this at least is in
the, uh, in the works. Community petition regarding safety, um,
this is in the, in the Caledonia area. You have
a copy of the, of the letter that was a
preamble to the petition that was, uh, circulated here. I
don't know if you have any comments, uh, Inspector. You
just. Thank you, Chair. And through you, I do. Um,
obviously I appreciate the residents bringing forward, um, the concerns
in the Avalon subdivision in Caledonia. Uh, the petition was
constructed inappropriately focused on prevention and partnership when I read
over it. Although I've not had our analysts to a
comprehensive review of incidents in there. And as you saw,
I noted in the June and July months. We did
see a decrease in theft under five, uh, calls for
service. I know the citizen did not lie in exactly
the concerns, but we have already noticed prior to receiving
this that there was an increase in vehicle, um, thefts,
not too many of those, but more so there's from
vehicles. Um, so just throw for some context for the
board for this. I know our analysts, they've been working
with the Hamilton Police Services, um, and four youth were
arrested in a stolen truck that was stolen from Avalon.
So we are trying to use the information now that
we're getting from Halleton Police to try to tie that
to any of the incidents in our location and hopefully,
um, some charges and clearing off incense might be pending
in relation to that. And before receiving the petition actually,
um, and becoming aware through, we have Tuesday morning meetings
to discuss things in the, uh, in our Detachment. And
that was kind of one of the topics that came
up. And I said, okay, let's put something together. Um,
I've made a request of our auxiliary liaison officers to
engage our auxiliary unit. And it's called the door -
to - door program. So that's where, um, our auxiliary
members, they will take out, uh, we've got some printed
placards. Um, they talk about, uh, lock at her lose
it, operations safeguard, community watch, and, uh, cam safe. Um,
so anyways, they'll go out and they'll kind of flood
that area of a community that we had some hotspots
in, making sure people are aware. I know a lot
of times now on social media, people have, uh, social
media groups, they're part of and they see some of
that information. But this is to make sure they report
it to us so that we have an awareness for,
for our analytics. So we know where to hit, um,
to head to focus our enforcement efforts on. But they're,
the plan is coming. I don't think they're getting to
it this week. It might be next week. So Caledonia
residents within Avalon subdivision are going to see that. Um,
but we also noticed there was a bit of a
spike in Hagersville as well. Um, and we're going to
be door to door program will be coordinated in that
area a little bit later time as well. Hopefully you'll
see a reduction in, uh, in the, in these incidents,
as I said, Hamilton police has made a rest of
four. Four young persons in that one. I'm not sure
if they had their own media release out on that.
Yeah. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Um, member McKeen. I
noticed in the email that it says avalon slash Caledonia.
I just wondered because you said there's been a spike
in Hagersville and then other incidents in Hamilton. Is there,
uh, is there a hot spot area? Like is Caledonia
divided between standard Caledonia and Avalon? Like, is there a
dividing line that we know of that needs more attention?
Or is it all just considered as one, one city
basically. Thank you. Through your chair. Um, no, definitely it's
been more when the analyst was indicating to me there's
definitely a focus. Um, and I won't even say Avalon
as a whole, but parts of Avalon that were, you
know, targeted by the offenders. So we'll be hitting that
area. Um, you know, our unit right now, I think
has 10 members. They all can't get out of the
same point in time. So in order to do focus
like this, we really got to rely on the analytics
as to the area that it was occurring in, in
order to maximize that efficiency. Um, but definitely it's one
of those ones we did notice there was a spike
as well. In Hagersville and that's why I say we're
going to hit the area where that was concentrated in
Hegersville at a little bit later date. Anything further. All
right. Thank you very. Much. Bylaws. No bylaws listed.
Announcements. No.
Chair. Tomorrow night. Friday night at Nani Coke. There's a
from six until ten, 6 p. m. until 10 p.
m. There's a bit of a gathering of live music.
10 bucks, some food will be served. And I'm not
sure about alcohol. I was on a later rival to
this. So I thought I'd mention it here. Hopefully it'll
reach some years. And the main thrust of all this
is that the town hall is in, uh, has been
let go, shall we say for a number of years.
And it's my understanding. I haven't auditor yet to see
what the needs are. That it, uh, it would appreciate
some needed funding. So this is the beginning and the
wheat out of Nanico to commence that process by a
bunch of volunteers. And, uh, so if you can tomorrow
night at Nani Coke, uh, stop by listen to some
music and bring a chair, by the way, there's no
seeding original. I just want to sit down on the,
on the grass. So please, uh, please attend and support
the town of Ninecook. Much appreciate. Thank you. Thank you,
Stuart. Anyone else. Session.
We're at the adjournment. Mover in a seconder. Uh, that
this meeting now adjourned at 1131 a. m. Move member
McKeen, second member Shaw. All those in favor. Opposed that
is carried. Thank you very much for your involvement and
your participation, uh, this morning. Have a good rest of
the summer. Meeting adjourned.