Regina police launch new community safety programs to prevent crime in neighbourhoods

Sarah Onyango · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 8:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

The Regina Police Service has a caller program for transgression prevention successful the city.

It has started a neighbourhood ticker programme called Community ON: Neighbourhood Watch Reimagined, which it says gives residents much ways to assistance support their communities safe. 

"We perceive to the community. We perceive to the residents. We perceive to our assemblage surveys and what radical say," said Regina constabulary Chief Farooq Sheikh. 

Community ON builds connected already existing programs specified arsenic the assemblage transgression representation and the citizens' constabulary academy. 

Sheikh said adding the neighbourhood ticker programme is astir being much transparent. 

"Often radical accidental that they're not alert precisely what's going connected successful the neighbourhood. Often radical accidental they don't spot capable of the police," said Sheikh. 

"Often radical accidental there's not a two-way dialogue, and often radical consciousness that they're not arsenic harmless arsenic they should be." 

Community ON will physique a broad programme aimed astatine helping the residents recognize however they tin lend to transgression prevention, helium said. 

"If there's an summation successful transgression successful an area, they request to know. If there's a alteration successful transgression successful an area, they request to know."

Strengthening engagement 

Another portion of the inaugural is simply a programme called the Neighbourhood Watch Link, which volition assistance police, residents and businesses stock information. 

It is going to run arsenic a aviator programme for residents successful Arcola East, earlier expanding to much neighbourhoods aboriginal this year. 

"We cannot expect the instrumentality enforcement to beryllium determination 24/7," said Yashu Bither, president of the Arcola East Community Association.

Residents volition beryllium capable to study suspicious behaviour and person updates astir transgression trends successful the neighbourhood. 

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Police person also introduced a voluntary camera registry for residents to fto constabulary cognize if they person information cameras and, if an incidental is caught connected camera, that video tin beryllium collected arsenic portion of the investigation. 

"The information itself volition beryllium housed done … the bundle provider, truthful we've got a mates of mechanisms successful spot for that," said lawman constabulary main Trent Stevely. 

"It won't beryllium easy accessible and freely accessible to each worker astatine [Regina Police Service]. It'll beryllium a prime fewer for investigative purposes."

The programme is wholly voluntary and escaped for participants to assistance the police. 

Anyone funny successful signing up for the harmless neighbourhood camera registry or learning much astir Community ON tin sojourn the Regina constabulary website.