Halton Region Ranked Safest Place to Live in GTA,
Top 5 in
Halton Region is fourth safest place to live in
“This Maclean’s Magazine ranking underlines the exceptional policing and crime prevention work being done by the
men and women of the Halton Regional Police Service,
in close partnership with members of our community,” says Chief Gary Crowell.
“I am especially proud of this result, considering Halton
has one of the lowest police officer to population ratios in
Chief Crowell citied the
Service’s innovative community policing partnerships, youth programs, and close
working relationships with Halton’s many diverse
cultural, ethnic and faith-based groups, as directly contributing to making the
region one of the safest in Canada.
“Police cannot work in isolation. In Halton, we
benefit from having very active community members, who are interested in
working closely with us to keep Halton as safe
tomorrow as it is today.”
The Service has won awards for
its strong focus on diversity, most recently the 2008 Gold Medal for Human
Rights and Race Relations from the Human Rights and Race Relations Centre, in
recognition of the Service’s efforts to curb racism and promote
multiculturalism in Halton.
In 2006, the HRPS had 544 uniform and 207 civilian members, and responded to
105,172 calls for service, with a cost per capita for policing of $190.91.
Maclean’s based its ranking on aggregate results of the 2006 per capita crime
rates in six personal and property crimes: murder, sexual assault, aggravated
assault, robbery, breaking and entering, and auto theft from the Canadian
Centre for Justice Studies.
The Halton Regional Police Service is actively
recruiting new officers to join its ranks, and people who are interested in
working for the Service are encouraged to contact recruiting at (905) 825-4747
ext. 5116 or visit the Service’s website at www.hrps.on.ca
for more information