Roles and Responsibilities

The objectives of the Neighbourhood Police Beat program are achieved through:

• A residential or non-residential establishment that generally has a major focus on a residential area rather than a commercial area - focusing on individual communities rather than individual shopping centres or business districts which are already serviced by Police Beat Shopfronts;
• Concentrating on monitoring calls for service and identifying and targeting problem areas;
• Focusing on responses that are implemented in cooperation with other agencies and the community;
• Establishing a beat area which is a relatively small geographical area, defined by calls for service data; and
• Staffing the Neighbourhood Police Beat by the same officer(s) who focus on taking individual responsibility for their area.