Police Board to hold Hybrid Meeting on June 12, 2025
TORONTO: The next scheduled meeting of the Toronto Police Service Board will take place on June 12, 2025 at 9:00AM. It should be noted that the Board will commence in public at 9AM before moving in camera for its confidential meeting, which will take place prior to attending to the held public agenda items. It is estimated that the regular public meeting will resume at 1PM.
The agenda is available on the Board’s website at: https://www.tpsb.ca/meetings.
Members of the public who wish to make a deputation on an item included in the agenda may register using the regular process, at https://www.tpsb.ca/meetings/making-a-deputation. The request must be received no later than 12:00PM on Wednesday June 11, 2025.
The Board’s meeting will proceed as a hybrid meeting.
Sign-up to make a deputation
If you wish to sign up to make a deputation on an item, please use our Making a Deputation sign-up form: https://www.tpsb.ca/meetings/making-a-deputation. Registered deputants will have the option of making their deputation in-person or virtually. Virtual deputations would be available either by video via WebEx, or audio-only by phone. Please note deputations on items not appearing on the agenda will not be accepted.
In addition, members of the public and media are welcome and encouraged to attend the meeting as an observer through our livestream at: https://youtube.com/live/BR1CWjYsBN8?feature=share
Items of Interest at this Board meeting include:
CHIEF AND BOARD ANNUAL REPORTS
The Board will consider a report from Chief Demkiw containing the “2024 Toronto Police Service - Chief’s Annual Report,” a high-level overview of the actions, progress and achievements of the Toronto Police Service (Service) over the 2024 calendar year. On April 1, 2024, the Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019 (the Act), came into effect, along with several associated Regulations, one of which requires the Chief to publish an Annual Report. The Chief’s Annual Report provides an organizational overview of the Service along with information on budget, community safety indicators, Member wellbeing, community
safety and crime prevention strategies, investigative developments, digital changes and
advancements, internal reform strategies, external reform implementation, training and
development, community campaigns, community engagement, national &
international associations, community satisfaction, public complaints, and media & corporate communications.
The Board will also consider a report from Dubi Kanengisser, Executive Director, containing the Board’s 2024 Annual Report. Section 41(1) of the Act requires the Board to submit an annual report to the City of Toronto, addressing several aspects of policing within its jurisdiction.
The Board’s 2024 Annual Report outlines the organizational structure of both the Board and the Toronto Police Service and provides an overview of the organizational context and key crime statistics. It also highlights key accomplishments from the past year, including progress on the Strategic Plan for Policing in Toronto, implementation of the Act, advancements in Policing Reform and the Missing & Missed recommendations, as well as the work of the Board’s Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Panel (M.H.A.A.P.) and Anti-Racism Advisory Panel (A.R.A.P.).
This report is complemented by the Chief of Police’s 2024 Annual Report and the 2024 Annual Statistical Report, which, together, provide a comprehensive overview of policing and public safety in Toronto.
ANNUAL STATISTICAL REPORT
The Board will hear a presentation and consider a report from Chief Demkiw on the Annual Statistical Report (A.S.R.), which provides a comprehensive overview of police-
related statistics including operational, crime, traffic, enforcement, and other policing
data. The A.S.R. for 2024 will be released as a series of open data and interactive
analytical products. The A.S.R. can be accessed through the Toronto Police Service (Service) Public Safety Data Portal at:
https://data.torontopolice.on.ca/pages/annualstatisticalreport
As the report notes, the Service has provided open data and analytics on the Public Safety Data Portal to offer insights to community members on operational, public safety, and accountability service delivery areas in Toronto. A few highlights for 2024 include an 8.2% increase in crimes against the person and a 2% increase in all crimes against property, a 16.4% increase in homicides, a 23.3% decrease in auto theft, and a 19.1% increase in hate crimes.
FORMAL APOLOGIES POLICY
The Board will consider a report from Dubi Kanengisser, Executive Director, recommending that the Board approve a Formal Apologies Policy. At its meeting of August 18, 2020, the Board approved 81 recommendations for police reform that were contained in a report by then-Chair Jim Hart, titled “Police Reform in Toronto: Systemic Racism, Alternative Community Safety and Crisis Response Models and Building New Confidence in Public Safety.” Recommendation 68 of the report directed the Executive Director to develop a policy for the provision of apologies, expressions of regret and recognitions of loss. This report presents a proposed policy responsive to this recommendation for the Board’s consideration.
The proposed policy establishes a process designed to ensure that when an apology is made, it has the desired impact and serves to build trust between the Service and the community. As the report notes, formal apologies must be extended in consultation with the aggrieved communities or parties. Where a formal apology is made to an individual, the proposed Policy requires the Board or the Chief to consult with the individual to ensure that the apology is made in a manner that is respectful of their input and feedback. In addition, as the report states, in advance of making a formal apology to a community to address a historic or systemic impact of policing, the Board or the Chief must strike an Advisory group composed of community members, who will be able to advise on the historical context, matters of cultural significance, and other important information that will help the apology to be experienced as respectful and meaningful by the community.
ANNUAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY UPDATE AND MEMBER WELLBEING STRATEGY UPDATE
The Board will consider a report from Chief Demkiw containing the “Annual Report: Occupational Health & Safety Update and Member Wellbeing Strategy Update for January 1 to December 31, 2024.” The purpose of this report is to provide the Board with an overview of matters relating to occupational health, safety and wellbeing for the 2024 calendar year including a summary of the implementation of the Service’s Member Wellbeing Strategy. This report provides a 2024 annual review to the Board, on matters relating to occupational health, safety and wellbeing, including annual accident and injury statistics, and communicable diseases.
The report also includes an update to the Service’s Member Wellbeing Strategy, detailing information about the offsite health hub, expanded health promotion services, and psychological health and safety supports, among other initiatives. As the report notes, the Service’s approach to Member health, safety and wellbeing is intentionally heterogeneous and multi-faceted in recognition that the needs of our membership are individualized and diverse. It states that the Service will be looking to develop an updated Member Wellbeing Strategy with a refreshed set of tactics and deliverables in 2025 to chart the Service’s path to member health, safety and wellbeing for the next several years.
As with all meetings, a recording of this meeting will be posted and archived to the Toronto Police Service YouTube account at https://www.youtube.com/TorontoPolice for members of the public to access later at their convenience.
Contact: Sandy Murray
sandy.murray@tpsb.ca
416-808-8090
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