Mental Health Policing

• Peer-based North Shore team aims to divert police from mental health calls

  The initiative pairs a trained peer-support worker with a mental health professional, who can be deployed to help a person or family facing mental health distress.

  Health

  May 6, 2022
  
• Language barriers cited as challenge for police in increasingly diverse Canada

  Ejaz Choudry died after he was shot by Peel Regional Police. His family, who has been calling for a public inquiry into his death, have said language barriers played a role in the events that led to his death.

  Crime

  Jun 23, 2020
  
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• Ontario’s police watchdog examining fatal officer-involved shooting of man in Mississauga

  Peel Regional Police said emergency crews were called to an apartment building on Morningstar Drive, near Goreway Drive, on Saturday to respond to a man in crisis who had not been taking his medication.

  Crime

  Jun 21, 2020