Please help us establish our priorities for 2023-2026. If you live and/or work in Midland, please help provide input on the Midland Police Service Board strategic priorities that we will share with Southern Georgian Bay OPP command staff for inclusion in their overall strategic plan for North Simcoe.
Please take our community safety survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BZZFWKZ
This short survey will be used to help the Midland Police Service Board contribute towards the Southern Georgian Bay OPP Detachment’s strategic plan and help guide the policing priorities for the next few years. We need this valuable community feedback by May 17th. Please feel free to share this survey link with anyone who lives and/or works in Midland.
Your police service board consists of Michael Osborne (Chair, Council Appointee), Mayor Bill Gordon (Vice Chair), Councillor Jim Downer, Diana Wasdell (Provincial Appointee) and one empty Provincial Appointee seat.
Our board has the following responsibilities as laid out in Section 10 of the Police Service Act:
(a) participate in the selection of the detachment commander of the detachment assigned to the municipality or municipalities;
(b) generally determine objectives and priorities for police services, after consultation with the detachment commander or his or her designate;
(c) establish, after consultation with the detachment commander or his or her designate, any local policies with respect to police services (but the board or joint board shall not establish provincial policies of the Ontario Provincial Police with respect to police services);
(d) monitor the performance of the detachment commander;
(e) receive regular reports from the detachment commander or his or her designate on disclosures and decisions made under section 49 (secondary activities);
(f) review the detachment commander’s administration of the complaints system under Part V and receive regular reports from the detachment commander or his or her designate on his or her administration of the complaints system.