ACCES
AMBER Alert
Neighbourhood watch
Setting the pace
Be a winner
Cisaille: Beat drug traffickers
Real cool
Info-enfant (Child-info)
Think before you act
Prevention, a sound investment for business people
Les Équipiers (Teammates)
Mon ami l’ourson (My friend, the teddy bear)
Nocturne: pour votre sécurité dans les bars (Nocturne program: Keeping you safe in bars)
Objectif : Cyber Branché (Combatting online crime)
Opération chalet (Operation cottage)
OP6
Partners in respect, you're keeping score
Programme d’intervention en milieu scolaire (PIMS) (School intervention program (SIP)
Pacific Path
Aging in liberty and in safety
Alive with pride

ACCES

Theme: Illicit trade in alcohol and tobacco

Target clientele: Bar owners

Objectives:

• Protect the integrity of Québec's tax system
• Restore order and ensure greater honesty in the alcohol and tobacco trade
• Reduce unfair competition in order to clean up the industry
• Combat complainantless crime

Key partners:

• Ministère des Finances
• Ministère du Revenu
• Ministère de la Justice
• Société des alcools du Québec
• Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux
• Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
• Association des directeurs de police du Québec

AMBER Alert

Theme: Media alerts for finding abducted children

Target clientele: Population as a whole

Objectives:

• Mobilize the public so as to maximize information in the case of child abductions
• Help police to find abducted children by broadcasting as rapidly as possible descriptions of victims, suspects and vehicles used on a variety of public channels, particularly radio, television and automated traffic management systems

Key partners:

• Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Missing Children's Network
• Québec 9-1-1 emergency centres
• Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec
• Ministère des Transports du Québec
• Québec radio and television stations

Neighbourhood watch

Theme: Break-ins

Target clientele: Neighbourhood residents

Objectives:

• Reduce residential break-ins
• Inform citizens about preventing break-ins and encourage them to take responsibility in this matter
• Provide a range of promotion and information tools to facilitate the program's implementation and the creation of committees
• Inform citizens about how break-ins can be prevented by applying simple safety rules that they often already know
• Break down the isolation of certain neighbourhood residents
• Demonstrate the need for mutual assistance among citizens
• Encourage citizens to report suspects or suspicious situations to the police rapidly and precisely

Key partners:

• Insurance Bureau of Canada
• Municipal police departments

Setting the pace

Theme: Women's safety

Target clientele: Women aged 15 and over

Objectives:

• Prevent crime against women
• Enable women to learn attitudes and behaviours designed to enhance their feeling of safety
• Boost women's ability to improve their safety on their own in most everyday situations that make them feel unsafe

Key partners:

• Conseil du statut de la femme
• Office des personnes handicapées du Québec
• Secrétariat à la condition féminine
• Mouvement des aînés du Québec
• Women who go out

Be a winner

Theme: Doping among young people in sports

Target clientele: Young people aged 15 to 20

Objectives:

• Make young athletes aware of the risks involved in using performance-enhancing drugs
• Promote health through sports and in sports

Key partner:

• Sports-Québec

Cisaille: Beat drug traffickers

Theme: Marihuana production and trafficking

Target clientele: Farmer, pilot and outfitter associations

Objectives:

• Limit the expansion of marihuana production in Québec
• Heighten public awareness about marihuana production, particularly among groups likely to be in contact with this activity

Key partner:

• Info-Crime Québec

Real cool

Theme: Crime and conflict among young people

Target clientele:

• Adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age
• School, street, health and community group workers
• Parents

Objectives:

• Prevent crime and defuse conflicts
• Prevent behaviours and conflicts that can lead young people to commit crimes or become victims of crime
• Reduce situations likely to have an adverse effect on young people's quality of life
• Enhance joint action and partnership in youth prevention
• Improve police officers' knowledge about the problems experienced by young people and foster joint action and partnership in youth prevention

Info-enfant (Child-info)

Theme: Safety of children who use booster seats

Target clientele: Parents of such children and child workers

Objectives:

• Identify children through ID stickers placed on child car seats
• Provide a range of information on these stickers including the child's name, date of birth, address, medical information and emergency contacts

Key partner:

• La Fondation Canadian Tire du Québec

Think before you act

Theme: Crime and at-risk situations among children aged 6 to 12

Target clientele: Children between the ages of 6 and 12

Objectives:

• revent crime and at-risk situations
• Provide children with prevention messages and teach them how to react in dangerous situations

Prevention, a sound investment for business people

Theme: Business theft and fraud

Target clientele: Business people and their employees

Objectives:

• Prevent theft and fraud in businesses
• Significantly reduce crime against entrepreneurs and merchants in all of Québec's administrative regions
• Substantially reduce losses in order to contribute to economic growth and foster a safe, stable social climate so that everyone—workers, investors and entrepreneurs—can be successful in Québec
• Promote the idea among merchants and entrepreneurs throughout Québec that they too can help to prevent crime through social development in their communities by acting on risk factors that lead to crime at the local level

Key partners:

• Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
• Canadian Federation of Independent Business
• Chambre des notaires du Québec
• Canada's National Crime Prevention Strategy • Bank of Canada
• Protectron Security Services
• Insurance Bureau of Canada
• Association des directeurs de police du Québec

Les Équipiers (Teammates)

Theme: Building bridges between young people and the police

Target clientele: Young people aged 12 to 17 who attend an educational institution full time

Objectives:

• Promote civic-mindedness
• Instil a desire in young people to become involved in their communities
• Help young people to develop their aptitudes
• Familiarize young people with the various aspects of police work
• Encourage young people to take responsibilities in their communities
• Inform them about the different services available in their communities and provide them with basic training on how to help people in difficulty

Key partners:

• Community organizations and volunteers

Mon ami l’ourson (My friend, the teddy bear)

Theme: Comforting children in crisis or distress

Target clientele: Children aged 3 to 12

Objectives:

• Console children during major events (e.g. abductions, murders, suicides, family home fires, accidents causing injury or death)
• Help them to overcome their sorrow using a teddy bear wearing the colours of the Sûreté du Québec

Key partners:

• La Fondation Canadian Tire du Québec
• Les Cercles de fermières du Québec

Nocturne: pour votre sécurité dans les bars (Nocturne program: Keeping you safe in bars)

Theme: Intimidation and crime problems in establishments that have liquor permits

Target clientele: Bar owners

Objectives:

• Reduce acts of intimidation and crime problems in establishments that have liquor permits
• Ensure that no acts of violence or of any other nature that may disturb the peace of customers or the neighbourhood are committed in such businesses

Key partners:

• Corporation des propriétaires de bars, brasseries et tavernes du Québec
• Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux • Several municipal police departments

Objectif : Cyber Branché (Combatting online crime)

Theme: Cybercrime

Target clientele: Police officers who deal with cybercrime

Objectives:

• Support and inform police so that they can organize prevention activities, provide citizens with information and launch cybercrime investigations
• Make the clientele aware of the risks involved in browsing the Web and what they should do to browse safely

Key partner:

• Service de police de la Ville de Montréal

Opération chalet (Operation cottage)

Theme: Theft and vandalism in cottages

Target clientele: Cottage owners

Objectives:

• Heighten awareness among cottage owners
• Reduce theft and acts of vandalism in cottages

OP6

Theme: Theft in businesses

Target clientele: Business owners

Objectives:

• Enable businesses to identify their property by engraving it in order to make it less attractive to thieves and protect themselves against theft

Key partners:

• Various police departments in Québec

Partners in respect, you're keeping score

Theme: Respect in sports and in social life

Target clientele: Young people aged 6 to 17 who belong to amateur sports teams, parents of team members and trainers

Objectives:

• Reduce incidents of physical or verbal violence related to sporting events
• Reduce inappropriate behaviour among team members, parents and trainers
• Make all concerned parties aware of the role they should play in ensuring good sports practices
• Instil a sense of commitment and responsibility in young people
• Encourage young people to adopt behaviours that show respect for themselves, others, property and rules

Programme d’intervention en milieu scolaire (PIMS) (School intervention program (SIP)

Theme: Combating drugs, taxing and violence in secondary schools

Target clientele: Young people in secondary schools

Objectives:

• Advocate joint action and partnership among educational institutions, parents and municipal police departments to foster appropriate interventions
• Prevent and combat crime and youth victimization by offering support to young people in difficulty and victims
• Make young offenders accountable
• Discourage and prevent drug use among current and potential users
• Make young people who do not take drugs feel safe
• Ensure that young users are identified and helped rapidly in partnership with school professionals
• Identify dealers and institute legal proceedings against them
• Prevent taxing and violence in schools by gaining young people's trust
• Encourage identification of aggressors
• Protect victims
• Launch legal proceedings against offenders

Key partners:

• Educational institutions
• Various police departments in Québec

Pacific Path

Theme: Resolving problems of violence and aggression among young people

Target clientele: Young people in schools

Objectives:

• Promote peaceful conflict management among young people, teachers and parents
• Develop educational tools to facilitate the teaching of conflict resolution and mediation in schools
• Teach young people conflict resolution and mediation
• Train school professionals in conflict management
• Support the implementation of the program in schools to ensure its longevity and success

Key partners:

• Educational institutions

Aging in liberty and in safety

Theme: Crime and safety among the elderly

Target clientele:

• Seniors
• Groups and organizations that represent seniors
• Community and institutional partners (CLSCs, social clubs, etc.)

Objectives:

• Advise older people about at-risk situations
• Prevent abuse and injuries among the elderly
• Provide support to vulnerable seniors in crisis situations

Alive with pride

Theme: Preventing delinquency and victimization among Aboriginal youth

Target clientele: Aboriginal youth in elementary and secondary school and elementary and secondary school teachers

Objectives:

• Offer bridge-building, awareness-building and educational activities to Aboriginal young people
• Focus on partnerships among young people, the community and available youth resources
• Develop problem-solving abilities