Bail compliance, 9-1-1 programs boosted by Province

January 25, 2024 · 0 Comments

York Regional Police received a significant boost from the Provincial government on Friday afternoon.

At the YRP’s Aurora headquarters on January 19, Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill MPP Michael Parsa announced the Province will contribute $2.4 million over the next three years towards programs related to the YRP’s Bail Compliance and Warrant Apprehension Program and its Enhanced Bail Enforcement Project.

Additional funding of $1 million was announced to help the YRP implement Next-Generation 9-1-1, which is designed to improve capacity.

“The Bail Compliance and Warrant Apprehension Program will augment our dedicated Warrant Apprehension and Community Supervision Enforcement team, which manages offenders on bail, community supervision or those with outstanding warrants,” said the York Regional Police. “This team is responsible for investigating the whereabouts of violent offenders wanted on warrants and the management of offenders released into the community on Probation, Provincial Parole and Conditional Supervision Orders. The Enhanced Bail Enforcement Project will centralize bail intake across York Region including Release Orders and Variances issued by the Ontario and Superior Courts of Justice in Newmarket, as well as those from the courts in Toronto.

“The Enhanced Bail Enforcement team will triage, complete data entry and dissemination to other members of the organization through an in-house bail compliance dashboard. Bail compliance efforts and outcomes will be captured for data analysis and performance measurement, providing real-time data to inform our bail management approach.”

Next Generation 9-1-1, which the CRTC has mandated for implementation by next year, will “modernize telecommunications networks that will result in new voice, text and multimedia services, including the capability to send and receive texts, videos and photos.”

Once implemented, the system will include interactive mapping, as well as automatic call and text features.”

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter