Durham Regional Police Interim Chief Todd Rollauer and Inspector Dave Saliba made a presentation to Council this morning. They offered a number of stats, some can be seen here on the PowerPoint slides they commented on.
In the overview of community safety calls for service, from 2019 to 2020 year to date
Interim Chief Rollauer began with community safety calls:
Inspector Saliba spoke next about the patrols and challenges in Oshawa's downtown.
There has been an overall 19% downward trend with calls related to crime, but crimes related to disorderly conduct are up 12%. During the pandemic the greatest number of disturbance calls in the downtown were in March, July & August.
Then there was a Q & A. Interestingly the first questions from Councillors were on speeding enforcement and excessive vehicle noise.
Chief Rollauer said they hadn't received many complaints about vehicle noise. Several of us said we were surprised because we receive them regularly.
Later in the meeting I was pleased to second a motion concerning this issue, that Service Oshawa track complaints the City receives and forward them on to DRPS.
In the overview of community safety calls for service, from 2019 to 2020 year to date
Interim Chief Rollauer began with community safety calls:
- related to violence: such as assaults, robbery, fights, sexual assaults were down 60 calls or 3.3%
- related to property crime: fraud, break & enters, mischief, shoplifting, stolen vehicles down 600 calls or 12.7%
- related to other: sudden death, suspicious or unwanted persons assisted ambulance were up 2300 calls or 8.3%
- In 1st Q of 2020 total shooting occurrences across the Region were up to 10 compared to 7 in 2019
- There has been an increase in number of guns found during routine traffic stops
- In 2019 issued 9,200 tickets related to highway traffic Act, Trespass to Property Act and other Provincial Statutes
- In 2020 so far there have been 8200 Provincial Offences notices issued
- Motor vehicle collisions peaked in 2015 when there were 2,515 and have declined to 1,531 year to date in 2020.
- In 2020 there were 2 “In the Zone” Traffic Enforcement Initiative resulting in 535 tickets + 111 cautions
Inspector Saliba spoke next about the patrols and challenges in Oshawa's downtown.
There has been an overall 19% downward trend with calls related to crime, but crimes related to disorderly conduct are up 12%. During the pandemic the greatest number of disturbance calls in the downtown were in March, July & August.
Then there was a Q & A. Interestingly the first questions from Councillors were on speeding enforcement and excessive vehicle noise.
Chief Rollauer said they hadn't received many complaints about vehicle noise. Several of us said we were surprised because we receive them regularly.
Later in the meeting I was pleased to second a motion concerning this issue, that Service Oshawa track complaints the City receives and forward them on to DRPS.
