Annual Report additionally exhibits officers performed visitors stops each 80 seconds, laid greater than 11,000 impaired {charges}
NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is happy to launch its 2023 Annual Report.
The brand new enhanced digital report has interactive content material with hyperlinks to further info and former years’ statistics for added context and contains embedded movies and podcasts. The Annual Report could be considered on the OPP’s web site at opp.ca.
This report aligns with the OPP’s 2023-2025 strategic plan that gives course and guides the OPP’s actions by way of its priorities of individuals, work and communities reaffirming its imaginative and prescient of Protected Communities… A Safe Ontario.
Do you know that in 2023, the group employed and skilled greater than 500 new recruits and skilled officers? This was a rise of virtually 40 per cent from 2022.
By means of name takers to dispatchers to officers on the entrance line, the OPP acquired greater than two million requires service final 12 months. In 2023, OPP officers have been dispatched to a visitors occasion each 4 minutes.
In an effort to maintain Ontario roadways protected in 2023, OPP officers initiated a visitors cease each 80 seconds representing a rise of 26 per cent over 2022. Sadly, drivers continued to decide on to drive whereas impaired. OPP officers issued greater than 11,000 impaired {charges} in an ongoing effort to guard the security of all motorists.
Moreover, the OPP’s Prison Investigation Department investigated 160 main crimes together with 40 homicides in 2023. The OPP additionally eliminated $15.4 million estimated road worth of illicit medicine from the communities we serve by way of the work of the Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau.
With the incidence of persistent violent offenders given judicial interim launch and committing additional violent prison acts thereafter, the significance of bail reform was made clear.
Following OPP appearances earlier than a number of standing committees calling for significant legislative change, a number of bail reform initiatives have been launched in 2023, together with Invoice C-48. This invoice makes focused adjustments to the Prison Code’s bail regime to deal with critical repeat violent offenders with weapons in an effort to reinforce the security of officers and all residents of Ontario.
These are just some of the highlights showcased within the OPP 2023 Annual Report that illustrate the OPP’s dedication to fight crime and improve group security inside its jurisdictions throughout Ontario. The complete report could be discovered right here.
“I am immensely proud of our organization’s achievements over the past year. Our dedication to the safety and well-being of the communities we serve across the province remains unwavering.” — OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique
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