KENORA — On August 6, 2020, the Ontario Government announced an investment of more than $6 million over the next three years to help combat crime and build safer communities in Ontario. This includes support for the Treaty Three Police Service. $300,000 of this provincial investment will be provided to the Treaty Three Police Service in collaboration with community partners to implement the Spirit of Hope.
This joins with a major investment of $1.1 million for a new chapter of the Bear Clan Patrol in Kenora announced on July 24, 2020.
The funding for the Treaty Three Police local initiative will take a strengths-based, and trauma-informed approach in combating sexual violence, harassment, and human trafficking.
“To promote public safety and fight crime in Kenora–Rainy River, we are providing our frontline police and community partners with the tools they need to do their jobs,” said Greg Rickford, MPP for Kenora–Rainy River. “Any time we have the opportunity to take away the resources criminals use to commit a crime, we should seize it, and with this grant program, that’s exactly what we are doing.”
The Proceeds of Crime Front-line Policing (POC-FLP) Grant repurposes funds forfeited during criminal prosecutions and helps local police fight gun and gang crime, human trafficking, and sexual violence.
“By cutting off the resources of these crooks and redirecting that money to our brave men and women in uniform, we will ensure our police can keep our streets safe and put violent criminals behind bars where they belong,” said Premier Ford. “Thanks to the relentless work of police forces across the province, we’re able to deliver $6 million more to help combat the most heinous crimes, including gun and gang violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking,”
“Crime should not pay and that is why we are standing up against criminals who prey on Ontario communities for profit,” said Sylvia Jones, Solicitor General. “We are working with law-enforcement and their community partners to protect the people of Ontario through this investment to ramp up the fight against guns and gangs, human trafficking and sexual violence.”
