Toronto Police Services Board
 
Board Sub Committees

 

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  • Sub-committees provide an opportunity for the Board, Service and the community to work together on issues of mutual concern.

 

  • Board Advisory Panel on Community Safety
    The advisory panel was established to advise the Board on issues that the Board should act on (for example, by crating policy) or advocate for (for example, about changes in provincial or federal legislation) in order to address gun violence and anti-social gang behaviour involving youth.  Min. No. P24/06
  • Budget Sub-Committee
    The Toronto Police Services Board Budget Sub-Committee established June, 2004 (Min. No. P207/05 refers), meets during budget preparations (which occurs annually) to review preliminary Toronto Police Service Operating and Capital Budgets and to establish a process and timelines for submission of the budgets to the City.
  • Don't Ask Don't Tell Working Group
    At its meeting held on August 11, 205, the Board established a working group to reveiw in consultation with the Chief f Police, the feasibility of implementing a "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" (DA/DT) policy with respect to non-documented immigrants.  Min. No. P254/05.
  • Sexual Assault Steering Committee
    In 1999, the City Auditor for the City of Toronto conducted an audit regarding the way in which the Toronto Police Service investigated sexual assaults and made a number of significant recommendations. In 2004, the Auditor-General released a follow-up report to this original audit. While improvement was noted, many areas were identified as still being problematic.

    In April 2005, the Board established a Sexual Assault Audit Steering Committee to assist in the implementation of the Auditor General's recommendation. This Steering Committee is made up of police representatives, Board members, as well as representatives from the women's anti-violence community.
  •  Saving Lives Implementation Group (SLIG)
    In June 2004, a conference was held in Toronto entitled "Saving Lives: Alternatives to the Use of Lethal Force by Police."  This conference was hosted jointly by the Urban Alliance on Race Relations and the Queen Street Patients Council with participation from many community stakeholders as well as members of the Toronto Police Service and the Toronto Police Services Board. 

    The four pillars of the conference were: 1) less-than-lethal technology; 2) mental health issues; 3) issues of race in police shootings; and 4) barriers to change.  Over the course of the two-day event, speakers and panels covered a number of complex and topical issues.  People came ready to share and to listen. What resulted was a series of important recommendations, covering topics from training and education to access to justice to mobile-crisis teams.  The value of the work done here was tremendous; significant, too, was the potential that these recommendations contained. 

    At the April 2005 Board meeting, the Board approved a motion to affirm its commitment to implementing the recommendations of the "Saving Lives" report and asking the Board to establish a Saving Lives Implementation Working Group (SLIG).  This Working Group has since been established and has been meeting to deal with the critical issues raised in the conference.  As part of its work, SLIG has created four sub-committees: Education and Training, Community Policing, Aboriginal Issues and Initiatives and Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams (MCITs).  Each of these sub-committees has made or is in the process of making recommendations to the Board. 
  • Human Rights Charter Project
    On May 17, 2007, the Toronto Police Service Board (TPSB), Toronto Police Services (TPS) and Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) signed a Human Rights Project Charter document which formalized a three-year collaborative approach to incorporate human rights and anti-racism perspectives in all policing activities. The Human Rights Project (HRP) further aims to develop tools and processes in identifying and eliminating discrimination from the recruitment to the retirement of TPS members, and in the delivery of services by the TPS to the larger community.
  • Taxi Working Group 
    On June 19, 2008, Ms. Aparna Sundar, author of the report, “Toronto Taxi Drivers: Ambassadors of the City – A Report on Working Conditions (the Taxi Report),” made a deputation to the Board regarding the working conditions of taxi drivers in the City of Toronto.
     
    One of the issues identified in the Taxi Report is the relationship between taxi drives and Toronto police officers.  Subsequently, the Board approved the establishment of a working group to review the recommendation pertaining to the police Service in the Taxi Report, and to identify how the Service can improve its relationship with taxi drivers in the City of Toronto, Min. No. P180/08 refers.