Owen-sound-police Police-board Meeting Transcript — April 29, 2020

00:01:34 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: I guess we're going to.

00:01:39 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: You can see the agenda on the police website.

00:01:48 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: I guess Chris, you'll be controlling that.

00:01:52 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Yep, that's correct.

00:01:53 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Okay, thank you.

00:01:55 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Right.

00:01:56 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Call the meeting to order, and you know, motion to approve of the agenda.

00:02:04 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: It's Marion.

00:02:04 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: I'll approve.

00:02:06 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Thank you.

00:02:08 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Jill, second.

00:02:09 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Right.

00:02:11 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Ian, in favour.

00:02:16 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Just got to hit the mute there.

00:02:17 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Yes, in favour.

00:02:19 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Okay.

00:02:19 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Thank you.

00:02:20 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: And Garth, in favour?

00:02:21 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: In favour.

00:02:21 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Thank you.

00:02:22 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Are there any conflicts arising out of the agenda?

00:02:34 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Hearing none.

00:02:35 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: On to presentations, deputations, and public questions.

00:02:38 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Here, just one comment on the agenda.

00:02:42 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: There was one page that was missed in the copy for the March payment of account.

00:02:48 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Thank you.

00:02:50 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Thank you.

00:02:50 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: This morning.

00:02:51 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Yes, there was.

00:02:51 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: I got that right.

00:02:51 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Yes, it was.

00:02:51 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: I got that for you.

00:02:52 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Okay, moving on from the presentation, I need a motion to accept the minutes of the public meeting held today.

00:03:05 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: So moved.

00:03:05 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: First.

00:03:05 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Second.

00:03:19 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Yep.

00:03:20 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: In favour.

00:03:21 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: And yep.

00:03:24 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Enjoyed it.

00:03:25 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Give us the rising sun, the 26th.

00:03:28 SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Here we go.

00:03:28 SPEAKER_007: We're going to turn to sports.

00:03:37 SPEAKER_007: Find them.

00:03:38 SPEAKER_007: Not come up with something better.

00:03:42 SPEAKER_007: March 10th, no meeting.

00:03:44 SPEAKER_007: Coming out of Washington, D.C., Williams, Craig, or citizens divided supported the business appointment.

00:03:55 SPEAKER_009: Still running slower than the state, and I expect there's even slower in the last few weeks.

00:04:02 SPEAKER_009: Also, the March 10 meeting on Seattle.

00:04:05 SPEAKER_009: Incorporated in the second zone represents the majority of the city's chief places.

00:04:10 SPEAKER_009: I'm not.

00:04:13 SPEAKER_009: I've made a change of emails with Williams recently.

00:04:15 SPEAKER_009: He'd like to stay the same.

00:04:16 SPEAKER_009: We would like to thank the students, staff, and all of the students as a result, as a result of more than the requests and the minutes regarding the going on the surveys and other requests.

00:04:27 SPEAKER_009: As you probably all heard now that the zoning coming up today has been cancelled.

00:04:36 SPEAKER_009: We're going to resume our March 20th survey and have to be over and resume and the various aspects of COVID-19 and while students cancel, there are some fun costs related to the conference,

00:04:50 SPEAKER_009: and we will accept the impact under our funding goal.

00:04:54 SPEAKER_009: We appreciate any guidance, assistance.

00:04:55 SPEAKER_009: It could be advised for Excel about starting EGM.

00:05:01 SPEAKER_009: Kelly chose another email on April 16th to get information on attending virtual EGM.

00:05:07 SPEAKER_009: That email has a link to register for the conference.

00:05:10 SPEAKER_009: There's no cost to register, and I will always set it for that.

00:05:15 SPEAKER_009: All of that being said, I would recommend the board to consider the patients to the original gym in confidence that we would have donated to the OHPSD towards the virtual gym.

00:05:29 SPEAKER_009: Would anybody like to make that motion?

00:05:32 SPEAKER_009: Or a discussion?

00:05:33 SPEAKER_009: I'd be happy to.

00:05:36 SPEAKER_009: Can I ask how much that is?

00:05:40 SPEAKER_009: I think it was about five hundred dollars per person, and there was.

00:05:42 SPEAKER_009: Versus, and there was three people attending.

00:05:46 SPEAKER_009: Kelly, is that correct?

00:05:49 SPEAKER_009: Yes.

00:05:52 SPEAKER_009: So we're probably looking at about fifteen hundred dollars donation.

00:05:55 SPEAKER_009: So if we normally made a donation to the conference, how much would we normally send?

00:06:03 SPEAKER_009: We wouldn't normally have made a donation in the past that I'm aware of.

00:06:07 SPEAKER_009: Yes, we did, and several years ago we used to give some five hundred dollars.

00:06:12 SPEAKER_009: That would be the whole zone, no, not just us.

00:06:15 SPEAKER_009: That was as a zone.

00:06:20 SPEAKER_009: That's what I thought.

00:06:21 SPEAKER_011: So this is out of the ordinary, right?

00:06:25 SPEAKER_011: Yes, right.

00:06:26 SPEAKER_011: And it would be about fifteen hundred dollars.

00:06:29 SPEAKER_011: Yes.

00:06:31 SPEAKER_011: Okay.

00:06:32 SPEAKER_011: Is this kind of being something that others are doing, or why are we suggesting this?

00:06:37 SPEAKER_011: I'm not talking.

00:06:40 SPEAKER_011: I've not talked to other ones on it.

00:06:41 SPEAKER_009: I'm assuming that some of the other members in Zone Five are doing it because of the fact that the funding is reduced for the board.

00:06:52 SPEAKER_011: I just want to hear from some of the other board members.

00:06:58 SPEAKER_011: It's in, and you know what?

00:07:00 SPEAKER_011: I'm not going to support that.

00:07:02 SPEAKER_011: We've got a city that's down about four hundred thousand dollars plus with code up right now.

00:07:07 SPEAKER_011: It's packed.

00:07:08 SPEAKER_011: Right now, it's taxpayers' money.

00:07:10 SPEAKER_011: I would rather leave it in our budget.

00:07:13 SPEAKER_011: It's nice to be nice, but you've got to be nice to your own taxpayers once in a while too.

00:07:17 SPEAKER_011: I just don't see the need for it.

00:07:22 SPEAKER_011: Okay.

00:07:23 SPEAKER_011: No comment.

00:07:28 SPEAKER_011: Sorry, sorry, Mr. Anthony, is this registration fee you paid, or no, for a donation?

00:07:33 SPEAKER_011: No, the registration fee.

00:07:35 SPEAKER_011: We would have paid had we registered.

00:07:35 SPEAKER_009: We would have paid heavy registration fees to the council, so we would have paid the fees anyway.

00:07:42 SPEAKER_009: So we haven't paid any registration fees.

00:07:44 SPEAKER_009: Not as of yet.

00:07:45 SPEAKER_009: No, I. I think I agree with the answer.

00:07:55 SPEAKER_009: Okay.

00:07:55 SPEAKER_009: So, motion defeated, and moving on to the next item.

00:08:00 SPEAKER_009: I don't know that, John.

00:08:03 SPEAKER_009: Who put the motion on the floor?

00:08:04 SPEAKER_011: Oh, Garth did, but it wasn't seconded, so it doesn't carry through.

00:08:12 SPEAKER_011: Okay.

00:08:19 SPEAKER_011: So there's no motion.

00:08:21 SPEAKER_011: There's no motion.

00:08:23 SPEAKER_009: Just a recommendation, and no one's going to make it.

00:08:26 SPEAKER_009: Right.

00:08:27 SPEAKER_009: That's right.

00:08:29 SPEAKER_009: Just some other updates, other important.

00:08:32 SPEAKER_009: Some other boards and boards by is also meeting virtually, and some that I know of are plugging towards the 18th meeting of the 16th, Waterloo Regional and day 8 of the 16th,

00:08:48 SPEAKER_009: as well as well 15.

00:08:48 SPEAKER_009: Orangeville is meeting virtually, and all of them are sitting drafters' chances of March meeting, but all as much as the 16th.

00:08:58 SPEAKER_009: Okay, moving on to reports from inspectorships.

00:09:02 SPEAKER_009: Good morning.

00:09:07 SPEAKER_009: We've obviously two months worth, so I'm going to zip through these a little faster.

00:09:12 SPEAKER_020: You know, if you have any questions, expect the board for our March meeting.

00:09:17 SPEAKER_020: That was back when things were still reporting on February, where COVID had actually seen the effects of it.

00:09:25 SPEAKER_020: We had mentioned seven volunteer hours on a number of events that the auxiliary had anticipated in.

00:09:32 SPEAKER_020: We're also getting ready to start our new intake of auxiliary members.

00:09:37 SPEAKER_020: At that point, moving on to March, we only got partway through the month before COVID forced us to shut everything down.

00:09:51 SPEAKER_020: So we were only a few classes into getting our new auxiliary intake trained, and we had to stop that, obviously, because of the restrictions.

00:09:59 SPEAKER_020: We carried on for another week or so, still allowing the auxiliary to come in for ride-alongs and things like that, and then we had to revisit that as well.

00:10:09 SPEAKER_020: So right now, the auxiliary unit is pretty much shut down in terms of most things they would normally do with us,

00:10:16 SPEAKER_020: and that has to do with the idea of not being able to put two officers in the car safely, and some things like that.

00:10:24 SPEAKER_020: We also had to look at the impact on our personal protective equipment supplies by having the auxiliary in.

00:10:31 SPEAKER_020: So right now, the auxiliary is pretty much on hold.

00:10:35 SPEAKER_020: That being said, we got close to 120 hours out of the auxiliary in March before that happened.

00:10:42 SPEAKER_020: That was all due to the auxiliary crew training that was undergoing and was currently suspended.

00:10:48 SPEAKER_020: So we're looking forward to when we can get that back up and running.

00:10:52 SPEAKER_020: Criminal investigations and drug branch for February.

00:10:57 SPEAKER_020: You can see there was quite a number of investigations that went on there.

00:11:02 SPEAKER_020: Eighteen-year-old Brit man arrested for a sexual assault investigation.

00:11:08 SPEAKER_020: This is with a nineteen-year-old male of Great Bristol PD.

00:11:12 SPEAKER_020: RCID, as you probably saw in the media, did a lot of work with the officer from Westgate that took his own life back in February.

00:11:23 SPEAKER_020: So that was a fairly large investigation that Sergeant Matheson did, in conjunction with the office of coroner, and there was obviously a couple of courses that went on there.

00:11:38 SPEAKER_020: In terms of drug enforcement, you'll see for the month that there was one that we included some pictures with there.

00:11:45 SPEAKER_020: It was a forty-nine-year-old male, was charged with a number of drug offenses, large sum of currency, thirty-one thousand dollars seized,

00:11:54 SPEAKER_020: and street value of ninety-three thousand dollars in drugs seized that was done in conjunction with the OTP Street Crime Unit.

00:12:05 SPEAKER_020: Just seems to be happening more frequently, which is actually a good thing.

00:12:11 SPEAKER_020: Our units are really working well together.

00:12:13 SPEAKER_020: Because obviously, a lot of this stuff is great countywide, first county.

00:12:19 SPEAKER_020: There was another investigation listed there again.

00:12:20 SPEAKER_020: It's listed there again with the OBB.

00:12:25 SPEAKER_020: More drug seizures and more cash seizures, not quite as much as the last time.

00:12:30 SPEAKER_020: Then we move to the April report or the March report, sorry.

00:12:38 SPEAKER_020: Thirty-eight year old man charged result of a PGG fraudulent transaction.

00:12:45 SPEAKER_020: Was sexual assault charge for a thirty-two year old male back in March 7.

00:12:49 SPEAKER_020: Two-year-old male, back in March 17.

00:12:51 SPEAKER_020: Again, if you have questions with any of these, there's still other than the report.

00:12:57 SPEAKER_020: Fatal house fire occurred on March 21st on Fifth Avenue.

00:13:01 SPEAKER_020: With heavy investigation, deemed to be not criminal in nature.

00:13:06 SPEAKER_020: Careless smoking.

00:13:08 SPEAKER_020: Yet another sexual assault investigation resulting in charges.

00:13:15 SPEAKER_020: And final one on there relates to some.

00:13:18 SPEAKER_020: Excuse me.

00:13:18 SPEAKER_020: They were going to be for the female use.

00:13:26 SPEAKER_020: That date back to 2019.

00:13:26 SPEAKER_020: It was a number of hours since they experienced back time.

00:13:32 SPEAKER_020: The fires have been reset, and they are charged for it.

00:13:36 SPEAKER_020: I mean, it's female use for drugs.

00:13:43 SPEAKER_020: Sogin Chores was assisted in Port Elgin with a controlled drugs Control Drugs and Substance Act search warrant.

00:13:50 SPEAKER_020: We are working closely with our neighbouring services like that as well.

00:13:54 SPEAKER_020: In fact, we just completed another one a couple of days ago over in Soggy Shores, Assistant Man, as well.

00:14:02 SPEAKER_020: Town, Court and Barrie for a couple of days.

00:14:10 SPEAKER_020: That is pretty much a wrap for our CIB and drug reports.

00:14:14 SPEAKER_020: Absent of any questions, may have.

00:14:17 SPEAKER_020: Dave, it's Ian.

00:14:18 SPEAKER_020: Just thinking forward.

00:14:19 SPEAKER_020: If we're not going to have very many public events this summer, the auxiliary unit may be pretty quiet for the rest of the year.

00:14:29 SPEAKER_022: So I don't know what that's going to do for training or anything like that.

00:14:34 SPEAKER_022: Whether you put it off for a while, you don't want to lose guys.

00:14:37 SPEAKER_022: But I just don't know how much you can count on going forward.

00:14:43 SPEAKER_022: But I guess we'll wait and see.

00:14:47 SPEAKER_020: Yeah, we're constantly looking at that, hoping for this maybe to only be a month or two where we can start seeing some of those issues relaxed.

00:14:56 SPEAKER_020: But really, when you balance it out, it's hard to justify putting them at risk, and particularly with our PPE requirements and that sort of thing at this point.

00:15:05 SPEAKER_020: So I think they all understand.

00:15:07 SPEAKER_020: I suspect as long as we don't go too far down in the future, that they'll all be willing to come back and we're willing to go.

00:15:11 SPEAKER_020: But Yep.

00:15:12 SPEAKER_020: It's Marion.

00:15:13 SPEAKER_020: It's Marion, and I wondered on the same venue: is it possible for auxiliary to do some of the downtown walks?

00:15:28 SPEAKER_020: One of the things is supervision.

00:15:31 SPEAKER_020: They have to, if they're going to be here doing anything, they have to be supervised by a member of the service, and then that will put them in close contact with somebody,

00:15:40 SPEAKER_020: and they're coming in and.

00:15:42 SPEAKER_025: And I know that we've given all of our members explicit directions on who they can so like as far as physical distancing and self isolation,

00:15:51 SPEAKER_025: but I can't but I can't put the same restrictions on auxiliaries.

00:15:55 SPEAKER_025: I don't know where they were when they've been out and about.

00:15:58 SPEAKER_025: So it's kind of a difficult situation right now.

00:16:03 SPEAKER_025: Okay.

00:16:07 SPEAKER_025: That being said,

00:16:08 SPEAKER_025: the traffic officers were being used almost exclusively for COVID-19 calls because of and I'm sure everybody's seen it in the media the number of stunt drivers and the number of excessive speeds that are out

00:16:19 SPEAKER_025: there in all the communities because of the lighter than usual traffic.

00:16:25 SPEAKER_025: They're back out and working on that as well.

00:16:28 SPEAKER_025: They're doing foot patrol.

00:16:29 SPEAKER_025: The part-time officers are doing foot patrol and our full-time officers.

00:16:39 SPEAKER_025: Any other questions?

00:16:44 SPEAKER_025: Thank you, Mr. Bishop.

00:16:45 SPEAKER_007: Mr. Bishop, the duty to fire the guys will be placed on the fire within minutes from this meeting.

00:16:51 SPEAKER_007: We will now move to Enforcement Inspector Smith.

00:16:56 SPEAKER_007: Okay, so for traffic enforcement for the month of February, we had 143 Highway Traffic Act charges laid, 79 cautions to drivers, 98 Criminal Code charges, and 116 hours of foot patrol.

00:17:13 SPEAKER_007: There were 16 ride checks completed, 14 hours, and 373 drivers checked.

00:17:20 SPEAKER_007: One person was charged with impaired driving.

00:17:24 SPEAKER_026: Moving on to March, there was 100 Highway Traffic Act charges laid, 58 cautions to drivers, 147 Criminal Code charges, and 79.

00:17:36 SPEAKER_026: Hours of foot patrol, 12 ride checks, 10 hours, 109 drivers' checks, and again one person charged with impaired driving.

00:17:46 SPEAKER_026: There are no questions on traffic enforcement.

00:17:50 SPEAKER_026: I'll move on to lost hours and training.

00:17:56 SPEAKER_026: So in February we had 13 members sick, that accounted for 227 hours of lost time.

00:18:06 SPEAKER_026: We had one member on WSIB for a total of 160 hours.

00:18:12 SPEAKER_026: For training, we had one member on the Power Caves course, one member on the OPC section or portion of the Drug Recognition Expert course,

00:18:27 SPEAKER_026: and one person on it was myself on the Major Incident Commanders course.

00:18:33 SPEAKER_026: In theory.

00:18:36 SPEAKER_026: And moving on to March, we had 20 full-time members with absences representing 530 hours, which is a high number.

00:18:49 SPEAKER_026: However, 113 of the hours were attributed to preventative quarantine measures during the onset of the pandemic, and 192 of the hours was due to a non-work-related injury of one member.

00:19:06 SPEAKER_026: We had one member who continued to be on WSIB, and for training, we had a member attend Jacksonville, Florida, for the practical portion of the Drug Recognition Expert course.

00:19:25 SPEAKER_026: All the costs associated with that course have been covered by the province.

00:19:30 SPEAKER_026: That was on a police service expense.

00:19:35 SPEAKER_026: One member attended the Crimes Against Women conference.

00:19:39 SPEAKER_026: We had a member on the Technical Investigations course, and one supervisor attended some leadership courses on team building, emotional intelligence, and building leadership strength.

00:19:55 SPEAKER_026: That was all at OPC.

00:19:59 SPEAKER_026: Any questions in regards to lost hours of training?

00:20:06 SPEAKER_026: Moving on to the community services office in February, the Kids Programme continued with twelve Grade Six classes being taught weekly.

00:20:18 SPEAKER_026: Lockdown drills at Notre Dame and Timothy Christian School.

00:20:25 SPEAKER_026: Meetings with the Alpha Street Resource Centre, youth substance meeting; some of the presentations done were by the Blue Water Association of Lifelong Learning, Georgian College Student Association,

00:20:41 SPEAKER_026: and there was planning underway for the Polar Bear Dip, which unfortunately had to be cancelled.

00:20:48 SPEAKER_026: Moving on to the community services activities for March, just some of the highlights: our social media increase.

00:20:55 SPEAKER_026: Social media increased by 200 per cent.

00:20:57 SPEAKER_026: Most of this was due to getting safety messages out to the public regarding COVID-19 and the change in police procedures.

00:21:08 SPEAKER_026: All the twelve programmes for the Kids Programme wrapped up, fortunately, on March 13th, and there was an agreement with Timothy Christian School to have the Kids Programme start there next year.

00:21:26 SPEAKER_026: Bus patrol safety checks were completed at Hillcrest and Notre Dame.

00:21:31 SPEAKER_026: There was an open line attended by our members on COVID-19 on Bayshore Broadcasting.

00:21:40 SPEAKER_026: There was a "Lock It or Lose It" campaign held at Heritage Place, Walmart, Home Depot, and the Rex Centre.

00:21:48 SPEAKER_026: We participated in the Big Brother Bulb.

00:21:51 SPEAKER_026: Big Brother Bolt for Kids Safe by putting a team in there, and we also had COVID-19 community relations with our community partners working with our seniors and more vulnerable population.

00:22:09 SPEAKER_026: Any questions in regards to community services?

00:22:13 SPEAKER_026: I have a question.

00:22:13 SPEAKER_026: It's Marion.

00:22:16 SPEAKER_011: With respect to there not being any school programmes right now, and I realize that your Kids Programme did end in March.

00:22:25 SPEAKER_011: Has there been any thought put to some type of contact with the kids that are stuck at home and seniors who are stuck at home and all the people who may need somebody to talk

00:22:39 SPEAKER_011: to?

00:22:40 SPEAKER_026: Yeah, absolutely, and the Chief has touched on that prior, but the Here to Help campaign is being rolled out this week.

00:22:52 SPEAKER_026: You'll hear about it in the media, and that was an important thing.

00:22:56 SPEAKER_026: It came out of Ottawa originally, but it's a programme that's designed to reach people who are in isolation due to the pandemic.

00:23:06 SPEAKER_026: So, youth putting messaging out to them on the platforms that they would receive in social media,

00:23:15 SPEAKER_026: as well as touching on domestic situations and basically reminding people of the avenues that they have to get help and for contacting police.

00:23:30 SPEAKER_026: That's great.

00:23:31 SPEAKER_026: Thank you.

00:23:32 SPEAKER_026: Yep.

00:23:33 SPEAKER_026: Thank you.

00:23:33 SPEAKER_026: That's great.

00:23:37 SPEAKER_026: Okay.

00:23:37 SPEAKER_026: Thank you for coming in.

00:23:39 SPEAKER_026: Um.

00:23:39 SPEAKER_026: Go ahead.

00:23:42 SPEAKER_026: Moving on to collisions.

00:23:44 SPEAKER_026: For the month of February, we had 57 collisions: 23 on the east side, 18 on the west side, and 16 in parking lots.

00:23:55 SPEAKER_026: And half of those were investigated by the police department, and half of them by the CRC.

00:24:05 SPEAKER_026: Moving on to March, reduction in the number of collisions down to 35, with 14 on the east side and three on the west side, and 18 in parking lots.

00:24:21 SPEAKER_026: And again, half of those were investigated by our officers, and half by the CRC.

00:24:25 SPEAKER_026: Again, inattentiveness while reversing from a park position in parking lots, and also failing to yield the right of way, where that causes several collisions during the month.

00:24:39 SPEAKER_026: And that's all my report.

00:24:41 SPEAKER_025: And just as a note to that: the Collision Reporting Centre continues to be open, and they're addressing the lockdown and the pandemic by exiting the building and meeting people out in the parking lot,

00:24:55 SPEAKER_025: keeping a physical distance from them, and taking information out there.

00:24:59 SPEAKER_025: So, for the time being, at least, they're remaining active and taking those calls.

00:25:07 SPEAKER_025: Thank you, Secretary.

00:25:08 SPEAKER_025: Um, if you put the player, no action will be placed on the side of me.

00:25:10 SPEAKER_025: Good morning, Inspector Bishop.

00:25:19 SPEAKER_025: Director Floney passes on her regrets.

00:25:22 SPEAKER_025: She's tied up with the mail court this morning.

00:25:25 SPEAKER_020: As you can imagine, the last few weeks have been very busy down at the court, since they've worked through quite a few technical issues around essentially moving the courts to a video/audio remand.

00:25:36 SPEAKER_020: It's been quite busy trying to get all the wrinkles worked out of that.

00:25:42 SPEAKER_020: So anyway, I'm going to start with the February taxi and adult entertainment licences, and again go through these fairly quickly.

00:25:52 SPEAKER_020: Nine licence renewals, one new licence issued on the taxi side, and one adult entertainer.

00:25:59 SPEAKER_020: Moving on to the March report, we had one taxi renewal and one denied.

00:26:09 SPEAKER_020: Three new adult entertainment licences issued, which would all be ones which managed to come in before the closures occurred to those businesses.

00:26:19 SPEAKER_020: After many questions, I will move on to the court report for February.

00:26:25 SPEAKER_020: One of our special constables on modified duties through the month of February.

00:26:31 SPEAKER_020: You can see in terms of the transported custodies, we continue to run about two-thirds of the volume, about 958 hours of special constable time, and again, it's not too bad,

00:26:49 SPEAKER_020: but we continue to have issues related to waiting for the OPP prisoner transport unit to show up.

00:26:56 SPEAKER_020: Six knives turned away from the front entrance, which is fairly consistent month to month.

00:27:02 SPEAKER_020: As you move over to the March report, again, still person on modified duties. 66 custody; he's transported out of the courts.

00:27:11 SPEAKER_020: And again, roughly about two-thirds were on sound there.

00:27:17 SPEAKER_020: Eight and a half hours of wait time for the prisoner transport.

00:27:20 SPEAKER_020: And March 27th, actually, March the last date for us for prisoners actually being brought to the On-Sound Courthouse.

00:27:28 SPEAKER_020: So, current measures taking place right now is video is being brought in.

00:27:32 SPEAKER_020: Video is being brought into the courts through either the correctional facility or police departments where they're arrested.

00:27:39 SPEAKER_020: So, in terms of our operations here, pretty much every day is like a weekend.

00:27:44 SPEAKER_020: So, on weekends, anybody that's arrested here has a bail hearing through video remand.

00:27:50 SPEAKER_020: Now that's gone every day of the week, so we've had to change a little bit staffing around.

00:27:55 SPEAKER_020: And up until that point, where the courts were closed, five knives again turned away from the front counter.

00:28:02 SPEAKER_020: Absolutely, questions.

00:28:06 SPEAKER_020: We will go on to the records report.

00:28:11 SPEAKER_020: Local criminal records check total: three thousand two hundred eighty-one bulk searches completed in February for third-party records checks, and you can see that as we move into March, that number's dropped down to twenty-four hundred.

00:28:25 SPEAKER_020: So that's also as a result of COVID.

00:28:30 SPEAKER_020: We've got the online local criminal record searches up and running as Chief mentioned before.

00:28:36 SPEAKER_020: So anybody looking for a criminal record check now can do it completely online.

00:28:42 SPEAKER_020: Those are being distributed by mail, and that concludes Director Fumie's report.

00:28:52 SPEAKER_019: Thank you, Mr. Um, no questions.

00:28:59 SPEAKER_019: We'll be on Director Hills' report.

00:29:12 SPEAKER_019: Yeah.

00:29:13 SPEAKER_025: Maybe we can move on to Director Belmath.

00:29:16 SPEAKER_025: Just got a phone call from downstairs.

00:29:18 SPEAKER_025: Something's going on, so we can maybe do Director Hills' report, and then maybe she'll be freed up.

00:29:25 SPEAKER_025: Okay.

00:29:28 SPEAKER_025: Okay.

00:29:28 SPEAKER_025: For the month of February, we had luckily to obtain an automatic licence plate recognition system and a vehicle for the Owen Sound Police Service.

00:29:38 SPEAKER_025: We've completed some rollouts for other police services which we have contracts for.

00:29:44 SPEAKER_034: There is a number of dispatch contracts that we are currently underway with for submissions.

00:29:51 SPEAKER_034: The biggest thing, obviously, is the next generation 911.

00:29:55 SPEAKER_034: We actually completed our first call over the last two months, and you'll see actually moving forward to March's report.

00:30:04 SPEAKER_034: We've had a number of upgrades tied in with that.

00:30:09 SPEAKER_034: We've upgraded some dispatch consoles, which were already budgeted and scheduled with capital purchases.

00:30:17 SPEAKER_034: We're upgrading to a new version of our computerized dispatch.

00:30:21 SPEAKER_034: That's ongoing, despite the pandemic.

00:30:24 SPEAKER_034: A lot of it is in-house work.

00:30:27 SPEAKER_034: We completed our first test calls for NextGen 911.

00:30:31 SPEAKER_034: We were tied for sixth place in the entire country, and we've completed a transfer function as of last week.

00:30:39 SPEAKER_034: So we're actually moved up to tied with first.

00:30:41 SPEAKER_034: So we're up there with City of Ottawa and City of Calgary and the Province of Quebec.

00:30:48 SPEAKER_034: So we'll have those features available as soon as Bell lets them out to the public.

00:30:55 SPEAKER_034: That's been delayed by a few months, so we're looking at early spring of next year.

00:31:00 SPEAKER_034: But our portion will be done well in advance for Grey and Bruce counties, and anyone that's contracted through our communications centre.

00:31:11 SPEAKER_034: And that is my reports for the month of February and March.

00:31:15 SPEAKER_034: Unless there's any questions.

00:31:26 SPEAKER_034: It's still busy.

00:31:27 SPEAKER_034: Business is normal.

00:31:28 SPEAKER_034: Yeah.

00:31:29 SPEAKER_034: And then to add today, I'll do it as well.

00:31:32 SPEAKER_034: Thank you for setting up the.

00:31:34 SPEAKER_034: Yes, there were some work for workstations and users.

00:31:38 SPEAKER_034: We do have some remote teleworkers, so we do have some staff working in alternative locations that we had to deploy.

00:31:48 SPEAKER_034: So.

00:31:52 SPEAKER_034: Great.

00:31:52 SPEAKER_034: Excuse me, that is the yeah.

00:32:05 SPEAKER_034: Yeah.

00:32:05 SPEAKER_034: Sorry about that.

00:32:06 SPEAKER_034: That's alright.

00:32:07 SPEAKER_034: Don't worry.

00:32:08 SPEAKER_034: Okay.

00:32:08 SPEAKER_034: So the calls for service report for February we had, and I apologize for that.

00:32:14 SPEAKER_034: I sent you the wrong one initially.

00:32:16 SPEAKER_034: Um, but Kelly Jo was kind enough to forward on the proper one this morning.

00:32:21 SPEAKER_034: We had 1,208 calls for service.

00:32:24 SPEAKER_039: Our busiest time frame was Monday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to midnight.

00:32:29 SPEAKER_039: Continues to be the busiest hours.

00:32:32 SPEAKER_039: Our response time, call entry to scene, was 12 minutes and 57 seconds, and our dispatch to scene is 6 minutes and 66 seconds.

00:32:43 SPEAKER_039: You'll notice in February there's an added category of priority nine that was added in February to track the voice calls.

00:32:51 SPEAKER_039: The voice over internet 911 calls that we're receiving are taking additional time to process for the dispatchers.

00:33:00 SPEAKER_039: The calls initiate from a business, and the business transfers them to the location that appears on the Annie Alley screen.

00:33:08 SPEAKER_039: They don't verify the address, so we're often spending time re-verifying, taking the information, and trying to determine what the proper services that the caller requires.

00:33:21 SPEAKER_039: So we've added that just to track some of the resource hours for dispatchers, starting in February.

00:33:31 SPEAKER_039: Any questions?

00:33:34 SPEAKER_039: Okay.

00:33:34 SPEAKER_039: So, okay, for the month of March, we had 1,276 calls for service.

00:33:41 SPEAKER_039: Our busiest days were Sunday to Thursday.

00:33:44 SPEAKER_039: Busiest time.

00:33:44 SPEAKER_039: Busiest times remain consistent, and it's 8 a.m. to midnight.

00:33:49 SPEAKER_039: Our average, sorry, response time for call entry to scene was 11 minutes and 82 seconds, and for dispatch to scene was 6 minutes and 1 second.

00:34:04 SPEAKER_039: So for the voice transfers, we had five in February that we recorded, and 24 in Owen Sound.

00:34:11 SPEAKER_039: These are significant increases in calls for service because it's not just Owen Sound that they're receiving these voice transfers for.

00:34:19 SPEAKER_039: We also receive them for Port Hope, Dryden, Cobourg, and Bruce Grey County.

00:34:28 SPEAKER_039: There's also another local condition or local event type added in March to capture all the calls for service related to the pandemic.

00:34:38 SPEAKER_039: That's located in the priority two.

00:34:42 SPEAKER_039: And we just had we just captured one call in March.

00:34:45 SPEAKER_039: We didn't add it till the end of March, so in April you'll see some significant changes in that category as well.

00:34:55 SPEAKER_039: Any questions?

00:35:12 SPEAKER_025: So next, you'll see a report that Suzanne completed relating to criminal records checks.

00:35:19 SPEAKER_025: So one of the things that we that was pushed forward out of necessity with the closing of the front doors and limiting the people coming and going from the police station was the change to

00:35:29 SPEAKER_025: an online portal for records checks.

00:35:33 SPEAKER_025: It's something we'd already been considering and looking at because of the fact that people coming to the station could obviously get all that information and look after that through an online process,

00:35:46 SPEAKER_025: instead of having to come in here.

00:35:49 SPEAKER_025: So, as you can see in the report, with the onset of the pandemic, we set up the portal in a hurry, and it was active on the 23rd and the 1st.

00:36:00 SPEAKER_025: The application was the 25th of March.

00:36:03 SPEAKER_025: It worked very well.

00:36:04 SPEAKER_025: Needing for the report, they processed 12 applications online.

00:36:05 SPEAKER_025: Process 12 applications online.

00:36:07 SPEAKER_025: Obviously, the number of records checks has dropped off because of the fact that there are not.

00:36:12 SPEAKER_025: There's only limited areas for employment and volunteer options, so it's not very busy.

00:36:21 SPEAKER_025: But the ones that are being processed, and we've also done some limited fingerprinting for people, if it's a situation for employment in an area that is a priority or essential service.

00:36:35 SPEAKER_025: So we've been doing that.

00:36:36 SPEAKER_025: One of the things that we have done is set up, and you'll see a comparison here in the report for other services and their charges.

00:36:44 SPEAKER_025: The current fee is set for $25 for employment and free for volunteers who live in volunteer in downtown and $25 for applicants who wish to volunteer in downtown but reside outside the city limits.

00:36:55 SPEAKER_025: With the online portal, this was changed and more in line with most other police services in the province.

00:37:01 SPEAKER_025: That as you'll see from the thing that that fifty dollars per employment remains, but it's straightforward twenty five dollars fee for any volunteer records checks.

00:37:11 SPEAKER_025: So just any discussion.

00:37:14 SPEAKER_025: That's the report on that.

00:37:16 SPEAKER_025: The third party records checks.

00:37:18 SPEAKER_025: We continue to conduct those, and we have a number of services we conduct those for.

00:37:24 SPEAKER_025: I have a question.

00:37:25 SPEAKER_025: It's Marian.

00:37:26 SPEAKER_025: Yeah.

00:37:27 SPEAKER_011: With respect to people living and volunteering, you know, and so on.

00:37:32 SPEAKER_011: In Owen Sound, you said it was free.

00:37:37 SPEAKER_011: Now, if people from an organisation—some members live in Owen Sound, some members do not—do they have an option to go to OPP and get a records check done?

00:37:48 SPEAKER_011: And do you know what the turnaround is for them, or if there's a cost?

00:37:54 SPEAKER_039: So, anybody who resides in Owen Sound, who lives in Owen Sound, requires to get a vulnerable sector search done, usually that's what the requirement is for volunteering,

00:38:05 SPEAKER_039: and they have to get done in the jurisdiction that you live.

00:38:09 SPEAKER_039: So that would be Owen Sound.

00:38:15 SPEAKER_039: If it's a judicial matters check, they can actually get that in Owen Sound or in OPP territory.

00:38:25 SPEAKER_039: Currently, they're actually not processing anything right now.

00:38:28 SPEAKER_039: Okay, so the situation is a group that I belong to.

00:38:43 SPEAKER_039: Some members live in Owen Sound.

00:38:44 SPEAKER_011: Some members do not, and we wanted to assist at Oshawa.

00:38:49 SPEAKER_011: They require vulnerable sector check.

00:38:53 SPEAKER_011: So some are not able to get a records check done right now.

00:38:57 SPEAKER_011: Is that what you're saying?

00:38:59 SPEAKER_039: That they'd have to contact the OTP and see if they will do the search for them.

00:39:05 SPEAKER_039: But right now, no, they would be able to.

00:39:08 SPEAKER_039: That's my understanding for the OTP area.

00:39:11 SPEAKER_039: Okay, thank you.

00:39:12 SPEAKER_011: Or they could pay $25 and get it done at Owen Sound.

00:39:15 SPEAKER_039: No, they can't because it's a vulnerable sector search that is required.

00:39:19 SPEAKER_039: We can only process the ones in Owen Sound.

00:39:22 SPEAKER_039: Okay.

00:39:22 SPEAKER_039: All right.

00:39:24 SPEAKER_039: Thank you.

00:39:25 SPEAKER_025: The one thing that I didn't mention is the online system.

00:39:31 SPEAKER_025: For every name that's processed, every check that's processed, there's a one dollar per search that's contributed back, and it can be donated to a local charity of choice, whatever intervals we decide.

00:39:44 SPEAKER_025: Basically, so that would be something the board would have to decide where that donation would go.

00:39:54 SPEAKER_025: Are we deciding that now?

00:39:56 SPEAKER_025: Uh, I don't know that we have to decide that now.

00:39:59 SPEAKER_025: It's just been set up, and there—I believe there's twelve dollars there.

00:40:02 SPEAKER_025: So.

00:40:02 SPEAKER_011: Okay, so it's just being held until a later date, then.

00:40:06 SPEAKER_011: Yes, that's correct.

00:40:08 SPEAKER_011: Thank you.

00:40:11 SPEAKER_011: Um.

00:40:23 SPEAKER_011: Okay.

00:40:26 SPEAKER_011: Okay.

00:40:28 SPEAKER_011: Oh, okay.

00:40:29 SPEAKER_025: So I'll just go through briefly through the February financial report and numbers.

00:40:34 SPEAKER_025: And if you're looking at the wages full-time and seeing that they're way above what would be normal, what would be the budget period budgeted, that's due to the fact there were three pays.

00:40:47 SPEAKER_025: There were three pays during the month of January, but the budgeted period only breaks down for months divided by twelve, so that will even out.

00:40:56 SPEAKER_025: As you can see, there's a large variance in February, and then there's a much lower variance in March.

00:41:01 SPEAKER_025: And in March, it very much balances out again over time.

00:41:06 SPEAKER_025: There are a couple of areas that crude payroll expense.

00:41:10 SPEAKER_025: There was one that's deducted by the city as a percentage of the total earnings, and there was a one percent difference between what we were told and what was implemented into the computer programme,

00:41:24 SPEAKER_025: so that's being rectified at that end, and we'll see that one come back into balance.

00:41:29 SPEAKER_025: Other than that, nothing significantly out of whack in either of those.

00:41:35 SPEAKER_025: As I mentioned previously, and I'll mention in this meeting, there have been some purchases related to COVID-19.

00:41:43 SPEAKER_025: There's been some increased training costs and overtime in the com centre related to absences due to a possible case of COVID-19, but turned out to be more of the flu.

00:41:56 SPEAKER_025: So there are some areas that are increased.

00:42:00 SPEAKER_025: The training cost to have somebody come in,

00:42:04 SPEAKER_025: and that was a precautionary measure so that the complaint handlers were fully capable of dispatching should we have a large number of absences as a result of a pandemic,

00:42:15 SPEAKER_025: so we can make sure that we can meet our staffing requirements.

00:42:18 SPEAKER_025: So there have been some costs.

00:42:19 SPEAKER_025: All those costs are being tracked separately, and we'll be keeping them separate.

00:42:27 SPEAKER_025: The payments for the accounts for approval for February were fifty-four thousand four hundred fifty-one dollars and thirty-four cents, and the March are seventy-one thousand four hundred sixty-three dollars and sixty cents.

00:42:40 SPEAKER_025: That will need approval.

00:42:42 SPEAKER_025: Subject to any questions related to the financial reports, that's an update.

00:42:45 SPEAKER_025: Okay, it's Marion.

00:42:48 SPEAKER_025: I have a question.

00:42:49 SPEAKER_011: The variance under the court section seems to be significantly high.

00:42:54 SPEAKER_011: Can you tell me about that?

00:42:57 SPEAKER_025: The courts seem to be very high because we have not yet received the grant funding to offset what would be the proper amount.

00:43:08 SPEAKER_025: So there's no amount coming from the province.

00:43:12 SPEAKER_025: Okay, thanks.

00:43:13 SPEAKER_025: Mr. Miller.

00:43:24 SPEAKER_025: Mr. Okay.

00:43:42 SPEAKER_025: Okay.

00:43:46 SPEAKER_025: Okay.

00:43:52 SPEAKER_025: So the 17 to 19 business plan, the conclusion.

00:43:57 SPEAKER_025: I've gone through the whole list with the inspectors and Inspector Clooney has longevity in the office and he was here when the plan was implemented and developed.

00:44:08 SPEAKER_025: So great value to having us come up with how we've met and what we've implemented over the time period of the plan,

00:44:16 SPEAKER_025: and this is basically just a summary for your knowledge so that you can put it to rest and move forward with the new plan as we discussed earlier,

00:44:29 SPEAKER_025: and should be coming out at the next meeting.

00:44:34 SPEAKER_025: So in red, you can see the conclusion, and a number of them are being continued, but not as a priority.

00:44:42 SPEAKER_025: So, an example, the method that we implemented for reporting mechanism that was developed and investigative standards that we implemented will be maintained,

00:44:53 SPEAKER_025: but it's not going to be a priority moving forward in the next business plan.

00:44:57 SPEAKER_025: Similarly, there are a number that will be continuing, and then it just outlines in what pillar those will be continuing.

00:45:07 SPEAKER_025: There may be some adjustments now because we may add a pillar to our plan for 2022.

00:45:12 SPEAKER_025: But as we go through each of those, and I'm not sure that I need to go through every one of them.

00:45:19 SPEAKER_025: But the ones that are still ongoing and implemented will continue.

00:45:24 SPEAKER_025: The ones that we believe we're done with, or that will continue in some form in the next plan, have been included.

00:45:31 SPEAKER_025: Will be included in the implementation plan that we're currently developing.

00:45:36 SPEAKER_025: Are there any?

00:45:36 SPEAKER_025: There are any questions about any of the individual areas?

00:45:41 SPEAKER_025: We open the question now.

00:46:05 SPEAKER_025: All right.

00:46:08 SPEAKER_025: I gather then that we're through with the 17 to 19 business plan, and we look forward to getting the next one out to you in the coming months, including the implementation plan.

00:46:20 SPEAKER_025: Give me a second.

00:46:37 SPEAKER_025: Give my computer movement here.

00:46:50 SPEAKER_025: Okay, one of the annual reports that are mandated through the Police Service Act is the Court Security Plan.

00:46:58 SPEAKER_025: 2019 Annual Report, for your information, there's this new security camera system implemented at the courthouse at the end of 2018, and the implementation of the project went forward in 2019.

00:47:12 SPEAKER_025: There are still some ongoing issues with the camera system that are being addressed.

00:47:16 SPEAKER_025: Most have been corrected.

00:47:17 SPEAKER_025: It's much more advanced and provides our special constables better security and better knowledge of what's going on throughout the building.

00:47:25 SPEAKER_025: The magnetometer and front entrance is manned by two special constables daily for screening purposes, and that continues now when the courts are only limited occupancy, so there's still special officers working up there.

00:47:41 SPEAKER_025: There were no prisoner escapes or attempted escapes in 2019.

00:47:43 SPEAKER_025: We continue to meet quarterly with the court security committee, as well the local justice committee meets quarterly, and they review any concerns or address related to court security on a regular basis.

00:47:59 SPEAKER_025: It's Marion.

00:48:00 SPEAKER_025: I have a question.

00:48:02 SPEAKER_025: Yeah.

00:48:03 SPEAKER_011: The ownership of the magnetometer and the X-ray machine.

00:48:06 SPEAKER_011: Who does that belong to?

00:48:10 SPEAKER_025: I'm not 100% sure whether it's the Magistrate's Ministry, Attorney General, or the courts, but it's not in our ownership.

00:48:18 SPEAKER_011: And any repairs or anything required to them was their responsibility.

00:48:23 SPEAKER_011: Yeah, that's correct.

00:48:24 SPEAKER_011: And thank you.

00:48:31 SPEAKER_025: Next, you'll see, as a request follow-up from a previous meeting, a list of service vehicles for the police service.

00:48:40 SPEAKER_025: Just outlining what we have, and it includes trailers, so anything that's basically licensed to operate on the road by the Owen Sound Police Service.

00:48:53 SPEAKER_025: And there are seven uniform vehicles, and a number of other vehicles that we have in the fleet.

00:49:17 SPEAKER_025: Next is the general order that was implemented for your information on emergency recall of personnel.

00:49:23 SPEAKER_025: We found all personnel, and we felt that it was necessary to put this out given the pandemic, making sure that we were aware where members are and their responsibility to keep us notified,

00:49:38 SPEAKER_025: as well as in the event of an emergency, how we can contact our members.

00:49:41 SPEAKER_025: So that was implemented, making sure that all members have their accurate current residential address and telephone number, things like that.

00:50:01 SPEAKER_025: Subject: Any questions about that?

00:50:03 SPEAKER_025: Procedures we implemented as a result of this pandemic.

00:50:09 SPEAKER_025: Next is probably been the majority of our work: the COVID-19 summary.

00:50:15 SPEAKER_025: I'll highlight a number of the things in this, as it's been an ongoing and moving target since March 13th or March 17th, when the official designation came in,

00:50:28 SPEAKER_025: but there have been a number of changes.

00:50:30 SPEAKER_025: The front doors of the station were originally left open and then locked shortly after, in order to limit access for the public.

00:50:39 SPEAKER_025: We explain there's still access, so somebody comes to the door and they can get into the building for safety.

00:50:45 SPEAKER_025: We're limiting the number of people coming in the building, and we're using proper personal protective equipment.

00:50:50 SPEAKER_025: If they are coming in the building, the records checks are moved to an online portal as a result of the move to close the doors.

00:51:00 SPEAKER_025: Signing in was modified at the front desk with a number of people who are required as part of their release conditions to come in and sign in.

00:51:09 SPEAKER_025: That's still being facilitated without direct contact with the individuals.

00:51:15 SPEAKER_025: Our communicators: there's been a number of changes and updates, continuing moving targets.

00:51:22 SPEAKER_025: And they screen all callers and ask them about COVID-19.

00:51:26 SPEAKER_025: So originally, when it first came out, there were a lot of questions relating to travel.

00:51:30 SPEAKER_025: A lot of those have changed now, but it does add some time, fairly significant time,

00:51:36 SPEAKER_025: to inputting all that information by dispatch to get that information for our members and for the people that we provide our services to.

00:51:46 SPEAKER_025: There are a number of members who are cross-trained in the event that there are people that are absent from work.

00:51:52 SPEAKER_025: Some were relocated to their home or another office or location in order to limit exposure and maintain our operations.

00:52:02 SPEAKER_025: To reduce calls for service and front-line contact, we employed some of the part-time officers to handle calls by phone without interacting with the plaintiffs at the scene to try and avoid contact.

00:52:16 SPEAKER_025: We also increased both social media and conventional media outreach.

00:52:20 SPEAKER_025: We've reached out to our retirees to check on their availability to assist should staffing require augmenting.

00:52:27 SPEAKER_025: There's been a provision by the province as well for recently retired members so that they would be able to recall for duty.

00:52:37 SPEAKER_025: And there's a weekly staffing report that gets sent to the ministry.

00:52:42 SPEAKER_025: There are a number of new reports being sent to the ministry, including personal protective equipment.

00:52:47 SPEAKER_025: But one of them is on staffing, so that if anybody reaches a crucial area, the ministry will know whether or not it's necessary to bring retirees back,

00:52:55 SPEAKER_025: whether there's adequate staff from other areas if there's a problem to cover off.

00:53:02 SPEAKER_025: One of the largest challenges was the court system, and as you can well imagine, an entrenched philosophy of open courts that has been around for hundreds of years.

00:53:17 SPEAKER_025: Moving to a virtual connection caused a number of issues and concerns.

00:53:22 SPEAKER_025: That now seems to be, at least for the time being, moving in a consistent method.

00:53:31 SPEAKER_025: Although it might not be the most efficient or timely, they are moving forward with that.

00:53:37 SPEAKER_025: We've got Inspector Bishop; the arrest of any persons having to report or attend before court come to the police station rather than going up to the courts.

00:53:48 SPEAKER_025: So that has caused issues.

00:53:49 SPEAKER_025: The courthouse remains open, so our special constables remain up there, and as well, we also help them here dealing with the rest of the parties.

00:53:59 SPEAKER_025: There was a shift change option implemented, a shift exchange programme implemented, basically allowing members to do a shift swap between them in order to facilitate childcare or anything else.

00:54:16 SPEAKER_025: So that was the result of cooperation with our association to help our members.

00:54:24 SPEAKER_025: The ministry has also generally extended the qualification for use of force beyond the usual 12 months in order to avoid disruptions to trained members during the pandemic.

00:54:32 SPEAKER_025: And in the event there are absences, this is not cause issues moving forward.

00:54:37 SPEAKER_025: We just will have to reschedule use of force.

00:54:38 SPEAKER_025: to a later time in 2020,

00:54:40 SPEAKER_025: and may result in some costs to requalify members because the annual time period when the requalifications were scheduled was when nobody was allowed to sign any affidavits.

00:54:54 SPEAKER_025: So we'll be moving forward to try and limit the amount of time we have to cover, but it will be less than ideal when it comes time to retraining.

00:55:06 SPEAKER_025: Messaging procedures for members who are calling in sick, exhibiting signs, as well as procedures for members who have been in close contact, were implemented.

00:55:15 SPEAKER_025: News director relayed that medical call response and first aid was implemented.

00:55:20 SPEAKER_025: And obviously, our priority is a tiered response to get there and save lives.

00:55:25 SPEAKER_025: But certain situations where other services and other EMS or fire are also on scene, some new guidelines were implemented.

00:55:34 SPEAKER_025: Whether or not we come involved, we can't.

00:55:38 SPEAKER_025: Similarly, there was talk about N95 masks versus surgical masks, and we've been able to acquire both now.

00:55:46 SPEAKER_025: But unless they're properly fitted,

00:55:50 SPEAKER_025: the risk to our members when conducting aerosol-generating situations where COVID-19 becomes an aerosol is that CPR or some intubation and things like that are there's a risk to our members and we shouldn't be attending

00:56:11 SPEAKER_025: those or present while that's being conducted.

00:56:15 SPEAKER_025: The fitness room was closed for the time being.

00:56:18 SPEAKER_025: We continue to monitor our member wellness, and our contracted psychotherapists are now conducting meetings in a remote fashion using technology.

00:56:28 SPEAKER_025: Because there certainly are a number of other issues coming up that are causing stress in this COVID-19 pandemic, much like public use of personal protective equipment,

00:56:42 SPEAKER_025: members' personal protective equipment continued to change as information became available.

00:56:47 SPEAKER_025: So we have adequate personal protective equipment in stock now.

00:56:54 SPEAKER_025: Everybody—Kelly, Joe, Dave, Jeff—everybody has done an amazing job of maintaining our stock and not relying on others.

00:57:01 SPEAKER_025: So we have everything that we require, and members are encouraged to use it appropriately and not be concerned about that.

00:57:09 SPEAKER_025: As well, the province does a weekly PPE survey through with all police services across the province, and anybody who is short on personal protective equipment, they are acquiring that for their use.

00:57:25 SPEAKER_025: So it was an area of concern, quite a bit of concern over the last month and a half.

00:57:32 SPEAKER_025: We were low in some areas, and things were unavailable.

00:57:35 SPEAKER_025: But we seem now to have pretty good handle on things.

00:57:43 SPEAKER_025: We've recently implemented emergency measures as a result of a number of calls for service.

00:57:47 SPEAKER_025: Required education, updated legislation by our training officers.

00:57:51 SPEAKER_025: So all the emergency orders that have been put in place, modified, changed.

00:57:56 SPEAKER_025: Our training officers have been meeting with the platoon to send out information for them to get updated on that and keep our officers up to date and current.

00:58:05 SPEAKER_025: We've obviously been doing education to the public, and we've had good reception from the education, notifying people and stating there's no enforcement necessary to achieve compliance.

00:58:18 SPEAKER_025: Auxiliary members' activities have been cancelled for the time being, and the new class of new recruits who are in the middle of their training are on hold now.

00:58:29 SPEAKER_025: Communication centre is an area that, because it's a very small room with a number of people located in it, it's difficult to do social physical distancing, with a number of changes.

00:58:40 SPEAKER_025: With Director Bell Matheson and Director Hill, and moving some lines and setups, we've been able to take the one communication room and split it into two,

00:58:51 SPEAKER_025: rather than four desks and one switchboard with two desks and the other.

00:58:54 SPEAKER_025: We now have balanced it out.

00:58:56 SPEAKER_025: And we use one room for day shift, one room for night shift.

00:59:00 SPEAKER_025: And the switchboard operator position has temporarily been moved to our backlit size fire hall in Old Town, in order to provide physical distancing for people, and to limit the cross connection between two shifts,

00:59:15 SPEAKER_025: so that if somebody does bring COVID-19 into the workplace, there's less likely that it'll go from shift to shift.

00:59:23 SPEAKER_025: and everybody becomes an expert as well.

00:59:25 SPEAKER_025: There, usually the part-time officers are switching back and forth on different shifts, and now they've been implemented so that they follow one particular schedule,

00:59:33 SPEAKER_025: so it eliminates the possibility of losing a number of individuals across a number of shifts.

00:59:40 SPEAKER_025: So that was done and took a lot of scheduling and work, but I appreciate all the work that was done, and the numbers accomplished.

00:59:48 SPEAKER_025: As I mentioned earlier, there initially was a shortage of some PPE.

00:59:50 SPEAKER_025: There was some PPE that was identified, but since that time, excuse me, we've been able to acquire what's necessary.

00:59:59 SPEAKER_025: As well, we've also acquired a no-touch thermometer in the event that we get into screening members.

01:00:04 SPEAKER_025: Some services have screened members and taken a temperature before they attend the building.

01:00:08 SPEAKER_025: We've also acquired a fogger to cleanse rooms and vehicles.

01:00:13 SPEAKER_025: That is an antiviral solution that kills the virus.

01:00:17 SPEAKER_025: So all of the vehicles are getting fogged between shifts before the next person goes out, and in order to properly clean and disinfect that vehicle, especially if something has been transported in the vehicle.

01:00:32 SPEAKER_025: As I mentioned earlier, the training for all members continues.

01:00:36 SPEAKER_025: Building cleanliness and extra cleaning became the issue during the early weeks of the pandemic.

01:00:40 SPEAKER_025: There were recent changes in the cleaning services provider.

01:00:45 SPEAKER_025: There were some issues with their results, and since that time, the building contractor that was successful in the recent bid stepped away from the contract, and the original contractor, the second-place bidder, was selected,

01:01:04 SPEAKER_025: and they resumed duties here, and there are no more issues moving forward.

01:01:10 SPEAKER_025: And despite all the other business going on, we continue to run our organisation and continue to staff the front line as we normally would.

01:01:21 SPEAKER_025: And we welcome the new constables: two new constables, one from OBC and one from our regional police service, and one never returned from extended absence.

01:01:31 SPEAKER_025: So we continue to make changes related to COVID-19 and adjust our business model.

01:01:37 SPEAKER_025: But certainly the business is still there.

01:01:39 SPEAKER_025: The calls are still coming in, and we continue to respond.

01:01:42 SPEAKER_025: So subject to any questions.

01:01:52 SPEAKER_025: Yes, for me, right.

01:01:54 SPEAKER_025: Okay.

01:01:54 SPEAKER_025: No. Thank you.

01:01:56 SPEAKER_025: It's been, you know, what?

01:01:59 SPEAKER_025: I'll just say right now that everybody from the leadership team has pitched in, and we try, we're trying to do some work remotely.

01:02:08 SPEAKER_025: We're trying to space ourselves out and not have personal meetings, but at the same time, we've accomplished an awful lot in the last six weeks while this pandemic's been going,

01:02:20 SPEAKER_025: and been able to modify the activities and how we do our job of filming, maintaining what the public expects for our office.

01:02:35 SPEAKER_025: My activities in February were more of a normal month, and then March started out normal, and then since that time,

01:02:46 SPEAKER_025: I haven't been able to capture all the phone calls as clearly as they have in the past.

01:02:53 SPEAKER_025: But there are weekly calls with Public Health, other police services, including all the other police services in Prince George's County.

01:03:00 SPEAKER_025: There are daily conference calls with the city and all towns.

01:03:03 SPEAKER_025: I've had premier conference calls with the Solicitor General and their staff, including one premier on a Sunday evening.

01:03:10 SPEAKER_025: There have been several meetings.

01:03:11 SPEAKER_025: There've been several media inquiries.

01:03:12 SPEAKER_025: I've done a couple of Rogers TV COVID specials, and as well the radio to explain and try and let people know what's going on with our service.

01:03:35 SPEAKER_025: And I was reminded there's a verbal report on secondhand shops, so the licensing for secondhand shops was coming up for renewal, and as a result of the changes and our restrictions on attending and such,

01:03:53 SPEAKER_025: it's been put off.

01:03:55 SPEAKER_025: So we'll be doing the renewals on the licensing, but we're not doing that at the present time.

01:04:07 SPEAKER_025: The majority of those businesses aren't open for that type of work, but some of them are open for other services they provide.

01:04:15 SPEAKER_025: It's Mariam here.

01:04:18 SPEAKER_011: Can I just remind you that when this does come to be renewed, again, you will need to work with the city on the zoning on that issue and licensing.

01:04:30 SPEAKER_011: Yeah.

01:04:32 SPEAKER_011: Thank you.

01:04:33 SPEAKER_011: Thank you.

01:04:44 SPEAKER_011: That brings us to the Strategic Priorities 2020 to 2022 document.

01:04:54 SPEAKER_025: I will turn it over to Inspector Bishop to go through that.

01:04:58 SPEAKER_025: He did an awful lot of work taking the information that was compiled from the online survey, the public input of the many stakeholders, as well our members' input,

01:05:09 SPEAKER_025: and I'll turn it over to Inspector Bishop.

01:05:12 SPEAKER_025: Good morning.

01:05:14 SPEAKER_020: I'm not sure if we have any members of the public on the call this morning, but one thing I will stress at the start is that this is a draft document.

01:05:22 SPEAKER_020: It's not the final release.

01:05:24 SPEAKER_020: It's just one that the board and the service have been working through to develop our strategy forward.

01:05:30 SPEAKER_020: There are some changes coming to the document.

01:05:32 SPEAKER_020: What this document represents is a slightly different methodology of going through our strategic planning process.

01:05:44 SPEAKER_020: Where in the past we combined into one single document, what we're looking at going forward is to split that process to better reflect the board's responsibility to govern the service and chief responsibility to operate.

01:06:01 SPEAKER_020: Chief responsibility to operationalize board vision.

01:06:05 SPEAKER_020: So, the first document we've worked on here is the priorities document,

01:06:12 SPEAKER_020: and what that really is is the board's direction to the service as to where we should be focusing our energies as a service over the next three years.

01:06:22 SPEAKER_020: But importantly, the creation of this document is the work that's been done in the last number of months and the last part of 2019,

01:06:30 SPEAKER_020: where we ran town hall sessions and also the online surveys that we had very good response to the community.

01:06:39 SPEAKER_020: So a lot of that information has now been translated into this document, where we looked at a number of different pillars or priority areas that the board is going to be focusing on.

01:06:56 SPEAKER_020: Those pillars I won't go into depth: mental health, addictions, traffic, communications within the community, sustainability that relates to cost drivers and those sorts of things, and member wellness remains a priority.

01:07:13 SPEAKER_020: One other area that we are going to be incorporating into this document is expansion of the policing pillar as well,

01:07:20 SPEAKER_020: just to reiterate our commitment to that area as it relates to ensuring that our programmes generally speaking, those areas continue on and continue to be developed.

01:07:32 SPEAKER_020: I won't go into detail about what we've added to a lot of those areas, but what we can expect is the next step once this document is finalized is that the service, as chief,

01:07:46 SPEAKER_020: will be preparing what will be more of an operational document.

01:07:50 SPEAKER_020: So we'll be taking these seven pillars, we'll be creating a more granular document with respect to what our method going forward is to make the improvement that we're looking for in these key areas.

01:08:06 SPEAKER_020: I believe the plan also will be that in the past,

01:08:10 SPEAKER_020: I think a lot of these strategic planning documents have been something that get created and then in about three years they get dusted off and somebody has to look at them before the next time

01:08:21 SPEAKER_020: to see whether anything's been accomplished.

01:08:23 SPEAKER_020: Where this is meant to be more of a living document, where we do at regular intervals after the creation of the operations plan,

01:08:32 SPEAKER_020: be able to report back to the board on each of the pillars to give you an idea as we move through our next three-year planning process,

01:08:40 SPEAKER_020: where we're at in terms of accomplishing goals that we have set out here.

01:08:43 SPEAKER_020: That, in a nutshell, really is what this document represents.

01:08:48 SPEAKER_020: And I'll stress that it's still a draft.

01:08:50 SPEAKER_020: This is not the public document that will be distributed.

01:08:52 SPEAKER_020: Thank you.

01:08:53 SPEAKER_020: Um, looking at, can we hear the motion?

01:09:01 SPEAKER_020: Hmm.

01:09:27 SPEAKER_020: Hmm.

01:09:27 SPEAKER_020: Twenty twenty-two.

01:09:27 SPEAKER_020: Twenty-two.

01:09:27 SPEAKER_020: Maybe they'll approve the draft.

01:09:28 SPEAKER_025: Maybe a better and the direction that it's going.

01:09:32 SPEAKER_025: We will take some feedback that we've received and update that.

01:09:39 SPEAKER_025: It's Marion.

01:09:40 SPEAKER_025: I'll make a motion.

01:09:41 SPEAKER_025: It's Marion.

01:09:43 SPEAKER_011: And I'll make a motion to approve the draft with the amendments suggested by the board.

01:09:49 SPEAKER_011: Okay.

01:09:53 SPEAKER_011: The second one?

01:09:54 SPEAKER_011: Yeah, I can second it, and see.

01:09:56 SPEAKER_011: I'm sorry, John.

01:09:57 SPEAKER_011: What?

01:09:59 SPEAKER_011: And, sir?

01:10:02 SPEAKER_011: Yep.

01:10:02 SPEAKER_011: Angela, obviously.

01:10:05 SPEAKER_011: Yep.

01:10:05 SPEAKER_011: Okay, moving on.

01:10:10 SPEAKER_011: Contract.

01:10:13 SPEAKER_011: Okay.

01:10:13 SPEAKER_025: Now the current vehicle contract expires May 31st with an option to extend for one additional year.

01:10:19 SPEAKER_025: Just looking for a motion to extend the supply, inflationary repair, tires and supply towing and impounding contracts that are currently in place.

01:10:29 SPEAKER_025: Be happy to move.

01:10:32 SPEAKER_025: Yes.

01:10:32 SPEAKER_025: Happy.

01:10:42 SPEAKER_025: Joe's turn.

01:10:43 SPEAKER_025: Okay, I'll second.

01:10:44 SPEAKER_025: See it.

01:10:47 SPEAKER_025: Yes, David.

01:10:48 SPEAKER_025: Yeah, I'm in favour.

01:10:49 SPEAKER_025: Thanks.

01:10:49 SPEAKER_025: Very much, David.

01:10:51 SPEAKER_025: Yes, I am.

01:10:54 SPEAKER_025: Thank you.

01:10:56 SPEAKER_025: Thank you.

01:10:57 SPEAKER_025: And then there are some current Owen Sound Police Service vehicle contracts that are set to expire May 31st, 2020, with no further option to renew.

01:11:05 SPEAKER_025: And I'm looking for a motion to send those to tender, working with the city procurement, Michelle and Chris, Chrisman, and that would be for oil changes.

01:11:15 SPEAKER_025: Marion, I'll move that motion.

01:11:27 SPEAKER_025: Second.

01:11:27 SPEAKER_025: I think it's Garth's turn, isn't it?

01:11:29 SPEAKER_025: Okay, I'll move.

01:11:30 SPEAKER_025: No second.

01:11:30 SPEAKER_025: In favour.

01:11:34 SPEAKER_025: In favour.

01:11:35 SPEAKER_025: Yes.

01:11:37 SPEAKER_025: Yes, I am.

01:11:41 SPEAKER_036: Then the next one is the policy administration policy.

01:11:47 SPEAKER_036: Yes, that's the last thing I'm thinking.

01:11:50 SPEAKER_036: All we would do is make it to my place, take care of the mail card, exchange it from time to time, and then follow what he says and will follow the policy.

01:12:01 SPEAKER_036: Change energy.

01:12:04 SPEAKER_036: Every time we make the policy, so if I ever notice that the policy is very tight and the week.

01:12:21 SPEAKER_036: I'll move it.

01:12:22 SPEAKER_036: Yes, thank you.

01:12:23 SPEAKER_036: Second, Joe?

01:12:31 SPEAKER_036: Did I hear you say second?

01:12:37 SPEAKER_036: Joe, second.

01:12:41 SPEAKER_036: In Gareth, in favour.

01:12:43 SPEAKER_036: In favour.

01:12:45 SPEAKER_036: Yes.

01:12:45 SPEAKER_036: In Marius, in favour.

01:12:47 SPEAKER_036: In favour.

01:12:48 SPEAKER_036: Thank you.

01:12:50 SPEAKER_036: Um.

01:12:50 SPEAKER_036: Any other items on the agenda?

01:12:52 SPEAKER_036: You brought forward at this time.

01:12:59 SPEAKER_036: Seeing none.

01:13:01 SPEAKER_036: The board has dealt with all the items on the agenda.

01:13:04 SPEAKER_036: There being no additional business conducted, we close the meeting.

01:13:07 SPEAKER_036: We turn the meeting to our next business agenda for Wednesday, May.

01:13:09 SPEAKER_036: Thank you, everyone.

01:13:10 SPEAKER_036: Good meeting.

01:13:17 SPEAKER_036: Thank you.

01:13:18 SPEAKER_036: Good meeting.

01:13:19 SPEAKER_036: Thanks, everybody.

01:13:20 SPEAKER_036: Thank you.