Neighbourhood Watch Brampton is the only volunteer run organization in Canada that is proactively engaging and educating residents on important crime prevention and public safety issues with media and video resources. Incidents of violent crimes involving guns and knives, gangs , drugs, human sex trafficking , intimate partner violence , cyber crimes, and auto thefts are on the rise in the GTA leaving residents feeling powerless.
Neighbourhood Watch was previously operated by Brampton Safe City until the organization closed in June The program was resurrected by Brampton Focus Community Media and relaunched in January as a volunteer run program. It grew rapidly and within the first few months had exceeded 1, households. The organizing team tried unsuccessfully for over a year to convince the previous council to approve street signs for active neighbourhoods.
We spent six months researching programs around the world, consulted with Peel Police and Safe City Mississauga, and then designed a world-class solution that our non-profit media group funded for two years. Council picked the second option, putting an end to its involvement with NWB. Fazal Khan was surprised and disappointed by City Council's recent decision to stop funding the neighbourhood watch pilot program. Instead, the program has been changed to Brampton Neighbours. The volunteer-run initiative focuses on neighbourhood profiling and monitoring by resident and community organizations.
The loss of Neighbourhood Watch comes as violent crime across Brampton and Mississauga is increasing. Over the last three years, homicides have been on the rise; increasing 67 percent between and ; 63 percent between and ; and last year saw a 17 percent jump, leading to 31 deaths. Other violent crimes, including assaults, uttering threats, and shootings also increased last year.
The number of rounds discharged in Brampton and Mississauga Peel police does not break down its crime data by city increased 41 percent from , with rounds fired over the course of the year. The violent crime severity index VCSI measures and then determines the level of criminal activity in an area by rating different crimes, with the more violent offences carrying more weight. The rate for the two cities increased by 51 percent between the start of and the end of , compared to a 27 percent increase for Ontario and 17 percent bump in the country over the same period.
The Pointer already reported this figure is rising at nearly three times the rate of the national VCSI. The force dealt with a total of about 41, Criminal Code offences in , nearly 9, of which were crimes against persons an average of 26 per day and more than 26, crimes against property an average of 72 per day in the two cities; Caledon is policed by the OPP.
This year has also seen a string of violent crimes, including the death of year-old Surajdeep Singh this summer. The Brampton resident was beaten to death on a pathway as he made his way home from a local Gurdwara. Two year-olds have been charged. According to City staff, the group did provide invoices outlining these expenses, but asked that they not be released publicly. Neighbourhood Watch is a crime prevention program that keeps communities safe.
The program has been dormant since June and restarted in January across the city under the management of Brampton Focus Community Media , a local non-profit community group.
The program is free and is supported exclusively by volunteers, and advertisers in the Neighbourhood Watch Newspaper first published in Fall When you join the program, you will be sent a series of short videos that explains how the basics of property crime prevention, and how to get your street on the program. Human Trafficking in Peel. New Brampton Pushes for City Building. Share on Facebook. Please Login to comment. Notify of.
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