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The community-based crime prevention initiative, Citizens on Patrol (COP), is seeking new volunteers province-wide to help keep communities safe. This successful program has been running for decades.
Citizens On Patrol in Alberta is starting to grow again after taking a hit for the past couple of years during COVID. Crime continues to grow, and so the opportunity to start the Citizens On Patrol program in new communities is getting increased interest.
Saskatchewan COPP groups have established the Saskatchewan Citizens On Patrol Association (SCOPA), similar to that which exists in Alberta and Nova Scotia.
Ontario has active COP programs in the following cities:
The Board of Directors of the Manitoba Citizens on Patrol Program is sending this communique to our membership and key stakeholders as an update on progress with implementation of the Strategic Plan briefed at the 2024 AGM, and as we prepare to start Fiscal Year 2025/26.
For many years, British Columbia led most provinces in having a COPs group in a majority of local communities. Excepting Vancouver City Police who had their own Crime Watch group, the benefit of being part of the Citizens On Patrol, our national organization, was paramount.
La mission de l’Association Citoyens en Patrouille de Codiac (ACEPC) est de rendre les collectivités plus sûres en mobilisant les citoyens du Grand Moncton pour les inciter à participer à une initiative communautaire de prévention du crime et de la victimisation, en collaboration avec leur servic
PEI currently has one active patrol group that primarily covers the town of Stratford which is located across the Hillsborough from Charlottetown. Recently the town completed construction of a new emergency services centre in 2020.
Updates from the provinces
Citizens on Patrol team aid stolen vehicle recovery
On Friday February 24, a Battlefords Citizens on Patrol Program (COPP) team spotted a suspected stolen vehicle and alerted North Battleford’s Community Safety Officers (CSO’s). The truck was confirmed as stolen and the recovery and investigation immediately turned over to the RCMP.
Prior to leaving on the nightly patrol, the 5 COPP teams and CSO pair were briefed by the RCMP detachment watch commander on issues of which to be aware. The briefing included the description of a stolen Ford 1⁄2 ton truck. COPP members were also alerted to a social media post which included further descriptions of the stolen truck. The suspected stolen truck was observed about 1 1⁄2 hours into the patrol; from time of theft to time of recovery was less than 3 hours.
Also during the patrol, COPP members and CSO’s alerted several property owners of potential theft risks such as open garage doors, reported a possible theft in progress and reported suspected car thieves.
BC News Spring 2021
While this is a BC Newsletter, it is going out through our Canadian Citizens On Patrol group which is in seven of our provinces. It now has a Facebook page so we encourage all of you to like that our page so that we are joined with your many friends. We also have a website www.ccopa.ca and on that site, we have all the news that is news! We have information on the provinces and their representatives who are part of us – BC, AB, SK, ON, PEI, NB, and NS. So if you want to start a local group or just browsing, check us out. We are a well functioning group who communicates by email but mostly via ZOOM and we hold 3-4 meetings a year to talk about issues but also to help any groups who are struggling with keeping numbers etc.