The Ontario Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 https://www.ola.org/.../bills/parliament-44/session-1/bill-6 received Royal Assent last week and the very next day, June 6, 2025 check out the great move Peterborough Police made passing it's "Safer Public Spaces - Update on Increasing Enforcement" initiative: "Beginning June 9, 2025, Peterborough Police Officers will be directed to move to a next level... approach to community safety and open-air illicit drug use. "Officers will be directed to arrest anyone found using illicit substances in public spaces, and any illicit drugs will be seized for destruction, or submitted for analysis and evidence to support any charges laid." https://www.peterboroughpolice.com/.../further-to-media...
Durham Region Police must pass a similar plan to increase enforcement on outdoor illegal drug uses as I wrote in a post I published here June 1st, prompted by one long-time downtown Oshawa's recent email calling for critical action before Oshawa's drug and crime problem becomes unmanageable and unfixable. Note the 2023 heat map showing suspected Opioid Overdose Calls in Oshawa below:
Durham Region Police must pass a similar plan to increase enforcement on outdoor illegal drug uses as I wrote in a post I published here June 1st, prompted by one long-time downtown Oshawa's recent email calling for critical action before Oshawa's drug and crime problem becomes unmanageable and unfixable. Note the 2023 heat map showing suspected Opioid Overdose Calls in Oshawa below:
