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The Ontario Community Safety and Policing Act, formerly known as the Police Services Act, is administered by Ontario’s Minister of Public Safety.
Policing must ensure safety and security, safeguard Charter and Human Rights Code rights, promote police-community cooperation, respect victims, respond sensitively to diversity, and ensure that police services represent their communities.
Further detail
1. Who administers Ontario’s Community Safety and Policing Act, formerly known as the Police Services Act?
2. Which approach best reflects the principles that policing must follow under Ontario’s community safety framework?
3. Which service is included in the minimum adequate and effective police services every municipality must provide?
Who administers the Ontario Community Safety and Policing Act?
Ontario’s Minister of Public Safety.
What is one responsibility of the Minister of Public Safety regarding police services?
The Minister monitors police-service effectiveness.
What minimum services must every municipality's police provide?
Public-order maintenance, law enforcement, victim assistance, crime prevention, and emergency response.
What options does a municipality have for establishing police services?
It can create its own service, join a board, amalgamate forces, or contract police agencies including the Ontario Provincial Police.
Ontario Act Authority
Administered by Minister of Public Safety.
Policing Principles
Ensure safety, rights, cooperation, diversity.
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