ADEQUACY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF POLICE SERVICES, O. Reg. 3/99

• Jurisdiction: Ontario

Police Services Act

ontario REGULATION 3/99

ADEQUACY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF POLICE SERVICES

Consolidation Period: From June 8, 2016 to the e-Laws currency date.

Last amendment: O. Reg. 185/16.

This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.

Crime Prevention

1. (1) Police forces shall provide community-based crime prevention initiatives. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 1 (1).

(2) Instead of having its police force provide community-based crime prevention initiatives, a board may,

(a) enter into an agreement under section 7 of the Act to provide crime prevention initiatives through another police force or on a combined or regional or co-operative basis; or

(b) enter into an agreement with one or more organizations other than police forces to have the organization or organizations provide crime prevention initiatives under the direction of a member of the police force. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 1 (2).

2. (1) A police force may use members of the police force, auxiliary members of the police force, special constables and volunteers in community-based crime prevention initiatives. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 2 (1)

(2) Auxiliary members of the police force, special constables and volunteers used in community-based crime prevention initiatives must be under the direction of a member of the police force. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 2 (2).

3. Every chief of police shall establish procedures and processes on problem-oriented policing and crime prevention initiatives, whether the police force provides community-based crime prevention initiatives or whether crime prevention initiatives are provided by another police force or on a combined or regional or co-operative basis or by another organization. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 3.

Law Enforcement

4. (1) Police forces shall, using their own police officers, and not pursuant to an agreement made under section 7 of the Act, respond to emergency calls for service 24 hours a day. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 4 (1).

(2) Police forces shall, using their own police officers, and not pursuant to an agreement made under section 7 of the Act, provide community patrol consisting of,

(a) general patrol; and

(b) directed patrol in the areas and at the times where it is considered necessary or appropriate. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 4 (2).

(3) Every chief of police shall establish procedures and processes on community patrol which address when and where directed patrol is considered necessary or appropriate, based on such factors as crime, call and public disorder analysis, criminal intelligence and road safety. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 4 (3)

(4) A police force may, in extraordinary circumstances, obtain the assistance of another police force to enhance its capacity to respond to emergency calls for service or to provide community patrol. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 4 (4).

5. (1) Police forces shall have,

(a) a communications centre;

(b) a criminal intelligence capacity;

(c) a crime analysis, call analysis and public disorder analysis capacity; and

(d) investigative supports, including supports in the areas of scenes of crime analysis, forensic identification, canine tracking, technical collision investigation and reconstruction, breath analysis, physical surveillance, electronic interception, video and photographic surveillance, polygraph and behavioral science. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 5 (1).

(2) Subject to subsections (3), (4) and (5), the services listed in clauses (1) (a), (b), (c) and (d) shall be provided by using the police force’s members. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 5 (2).

(3) Despite clause (1) (a), instead of a police force having its own communications centre, a board may enter into an agreement under section 7 of the Act or with another municipal emergency service to use a regional or other co-operatively-operated communications centre, or a communications centre operated by another police force or municipal emergency service. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 5 (3).

(4) Despite clauses (1) (b) and (c), instead of a police force having its own criminal intelligence capacity and crime analysis, call analysis and public disorder analysis capacity, a board may enter into an agreement under section 7 of the Act to provide those services through another police force or on a combined or regional or co-operative basis. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 5 (4).

(5) Despite clause (1) (d), instead of a police force having its own investigative supports, a board may,

(a) enter into an agreement under section 7 of the Act to provide those investigative supports through another police force or on a combined or regional or co-operative basis; or

(b) enter into an agreement with one or more persons or organizations other than police forces to provide those supports by means of a person or organization that is not a police force. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 5 (5).

(6) A communications centre, whether provided by the police force, by another police force, by another municipal emergency service or on a combined or regional or co-operative basis must operate 24 hours a day with one or more communications operators or dispatchers to answer emergency calls for service and maintain constant two-way voice communication capability with police officers who are on patrol or responding to emergency calls. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 5 (6).

6. (1) Police forces shall,

(a) have a member of the police force available 24 hours a day to supervise police communications and dispatch services; and

(b) provide police officers on patrol with portable two-way voice communication capability that allows the police officers to be in contact with the communications centre when away from their vehicle or on foot patrol. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 6 (1).

(2) Despite clause (1) (a), if the communications and dispatch services for a police force are provided by another police force or on a combined or regional or co-operative basis or by another municipal emergency service, the person supervising those services may be a member of another police force. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 6 (2).

(3) Every chief of police shall,

(a) establish procedures on communications and dispatch services; and

(b) ensure that communicators and dispatchers and those supervising them have successfully completed the required training accredited by the Ministry or have equivalent qualifications or skills as approved by the Ministry. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 6 (3).

7. (1) A police force may hire or enter into an agreement for the services of a crime analysis specialist who is not a member of the police force to assist the police force with crime, call and public disorder analysis. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 7 (1).

(2) Unless the crime analysis specialist is a member of another police force, he or she must be under the direction of a member of the police force. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 7 (2).

8. Every chief of police shall establish procedures on traffic management, traffic law enforcement and road safety. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 8.

9. (1) Every police force shall include one or more criminal investigators who is a member of the police force. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 9 (1).

(2) A board may not enter into an agreement under section 7 of the Act to comply with subsection (1), but a board may enter into an agreement under section 7 of the Act to have additional criminal investigators from another police force available to its police force. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 9 (2).

(3) Criminal investigators may also perform other duties not related to criminal investigation, including community patrol. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 9 (3).

(4) A chief of police shall not designate a person as a criminal investigator unless that person is a police officer and has successfully completed the required training accredited by the Ministry or has equivalent qualifications and skills as approved by the Ministry. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 9 (4).

10. Every chief of police shall,

(a) ensure that there is supervision available to members of the police force 24 hours a day;

(b) establish procedures and processes on supervision, including setting out circumstances where a supervisor must be contacted and when a supervisor must be present at an incident; and

(c) ensure that the police force’s supervisors have the knowledge, skills and abilities to supervise. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 10.

11. (1) Every chief of police shall prepare a criminal investigation management plan that,

(a) lists the occurrences for which a police officer is required to contact a supervisor as soon as practicable;

(b) permits the supervisor, except as provided for in clause (c), to assign responsibility to undertake or manage the investigation of an occurrence listed in the plan to any police officer, whether or not he or she is a criminal investigator;

(c) lists the occurrences for which the supervisor must assign responsibility to undertake or manage the investigation to a criminal investigator;

(d) lists the occurrences for which the board has entered into agreements under clause (3) (b) that would result in the investigation being undertaken on a combined or regional or co-operative basis or by another police force;

(e) addresses the monitoring by supervisors of criminal investigations; and

(f) identifies the specific occurrences, designated by the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, for which the police force shall notify another police force, unit or task force designated by the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 11 (1); O. Reg. 185/16, s. 1.

(2) Every chief of police shall establish procedures that require supervisors to ensure that the person to whom the supervisor assigns an occurrence listed in the plan, whether or not a criminal investigator, has the knowledge, skills and abilities to investigate that type of occurrence. O. Reg. 3/99, s. 11 (2).

(3) If a police force does not have a criminal investigator or police officer with the knowledge, skills and abilities to investigate specific types of...