To achieve its mission with a problem solving approach, the SPVM balances its interventions around four main tactics that guide their actions in the field:

• prevention of crime and offences in order to encourage and maintain behaviours that respect laws and rules, and conform to a peaceful and safe life for all;
• enforcement to fight against crime, respect laws and regulations, and  maintain peace and order;
• communication with citizens and partners to problem solve, to ensure follow-ups of any police actions and maintain a relationship of trust;
• research and analysis of the environments to deploy the best police practices.

2007-2010 Priorities 

The greatest challenge of the SPVM consists of being at the heart of the Montrealer's life and working to improve their quality of life. We must work daily side by side, be present and visible in public spaces, parks, and subways, so that they are comfortable and feel safe anywhere.

We must, in liaison with our partners, contribute to make sure Montreal remains a safe city.

The SPVM is focused on limiting the number of their priorities and endeavour to carry out the resulting objectives.

The priorities of the SPVM, from 2007 to 2010, are based around three main trends and 10 axes of intervention:

• Adapt our services to our environment:
  • Urban space management
  • Criminality
  • Road and traffic safety
  • Partnership and dialog with the community
• Support our personnel and contribute to their achievements in a context of diversity management:
  • Targeted management communications
  • Giving more value to our personnel and quality of work life
  • Development of the personnel and identification of  future staff

• To increase our organisational and financial capacity:
  • A comprehensive approach of safety
• • Work organization
  • Funding sources

 

A comprehensive approach to security

With the collaboration of all our partners, a comprehensive approach to security means conceiving, developing and implementing methods directly contributing to safety, to better the quality of life and greater comfort of the public, to whom the SPVM wishes to offer better services. This comprehensive approach will improve the coordination and harmonization of activities and interventions between the SPVM and its partners, to develop a common understanding of the security challenges and to perfect the abilities of all involved to contribute to safety everywhere on the territory; a little as if the SPVM had deployed a net, a star-filled vault, over the entire island.

In fact, a comprehensive approach to public security forms an integral part of the vision expressed in 2005 by Director Yvan Delorme, to the effect that, "citizens of the amalgamation of Montreal enjoy peaceful and safe lives where everyone involved in security act together in a unified way". This vision furthers the district Police Force model established in 1997 and revision of the service coverage design started in 2007.

In 2009, the SPVM seized every occasion to promote a comprehensive approach to security, exchange information and consult with various partners in urban security, particularly through the Association publique, parapublique et privée (APPP) comitee of the Association des directeurs de Police du Québec (ADPQ). This committee integrates important agents for Mass transit, governmental, para-municipal and bank security.

To find out more

Plan d'actions 2010 du SPVM [in french only]

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