Crime Prevention Ottawa

Partners for a Safer Community

March 29, 2007

Ottawa is a community in which individuals, families and neighbourhoods are safe and

feel safe.

Vision

Mission

To contribute to crime reduction and enhanced community safety in Ottawa through collaborative evidence-based

crime prevention.

Crime Prevention Ottawa:Operational Plan

for 2008

March 29, 2007

January 2008

• Build community capacity• Foster community action• Nurture partnerships• Engage in policy dialogue.

Our Role

Our Priorities

• Violence Against Women• Youth Issues• Crime Affected Neighbourhoods

• Continuing work with Together for Vanier– Working Groups– Safety and security booklet for landlords

• Participating in funded initiatives in South East, Pinecrest and Lowertown

• Working with other funders and CPS on community development approach

Neighbourhood Action Plans

• Working with “Neighbours, Friends and Family”

• Expand “The Fourth R” • Working with “In Love and In Danger”

on sustainability• Community legal education?• Advocacy with OCTEVAW and others

Violence Against Women

• Focus on Youth Gangs Working Group: research, public forum, development of a strategy

• Continue partnering on Early School Leavers Leadership Symposium

• Identify emerging issues

High-Risk Youth

• Continuing with the Community Adult Justice Network, Anger management, Youth Gangs, Vanier, SCAN

• Strategic participation in other committees

• New initiative on CPTED

Partnership Building

• Board policy statement “Towards a Strategic Funding Approach for CPO”

• Continuing to working in partnership with the Community Funding Branch

• Current call for proposals due March 14

Strategic Investment

• Continuing with a community committee• Home safety training in June with OPS & OPL• Public Events including Youth Gangs, violence

against women and Dr. Waller• Informal support to agencies and communities

Outreach and Training

• Working towards better planning of funding • Review of Roots of Youth Violence• A Youth Challenge Fund from the Province?• Coordinating body at the province• Advocating for SCAN: Safer Communities

and Neighbourhoods Legislation

Engaging with Policy Issues and Funders

• Problem: Crack houses and drug dealers undermine buildings and neighbourhoods with noise, disorder and fear

• Some landlords can’t or won’t act to protect their other tenants

• Current solutions: enforcement based on criminal law and by-laws is slow, expensive and not always successful

Why SCAN?

• Provincial, civil law to address the impact on neighbours of entrenched drug, prostitution or other illegal businesses.

• Used in MN, SK, YK, NF, NS• The goal is to stop the activity at a property and

restore the neighbourhood• It is just one tool in a toolbox that also includes

prevention and treatment

What is SCAN?

• Tenants can complain confidentially• Investigation undertaken to collect evidence• SCAN investigators can work cooperatively with

landlords or by-pass them• Measures include: banning individuals, closing units,

fines• Applies in both public and private housing to protect

law-abiding neighbours

How does SCAN work?

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