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POLICE SERVICES

We recognize the challenges associated with policing communities in Canada. Our leadership team, and many of our consultants have lead large and complex policing organizations and are familiar with the challenges facing today’s police leaders. We believe that Consilium is unique equipped, with practical expereince, academic depth and skills diversity, poised to deliver the scope of services required by today’s progressive Canadian police services.

PLANNING & RESEARCH

AS A SERVICE.

Regardless of your organizations size, police leaders can imagine the benefits of having a skilled corporate planning unit at their disposal. An office comprised of senior and experienced police leaders and academics ready to take on research projects, provide evaluations on potential initiatives, provide procedure recommendation on emerging issues, or undertaken the research and provide the Service or the Board with reports on issues that municipal council or the Board have a concern with, leaving leaders with the time they need to effectively lead their organization.

Consilium has the “bench strength” to provide on-demand consulting service for small and medium size police services. With skills sets and experience in a broad range of sectors, Consilium can undertake research and “best practice” analysis, and provide police leaders with procedures, policy recommendations and reports that provide background, analysis and recommendations and are ready for Board or Council submission.

This service is be provided through a pre-set subscription service fee, allowing the police service to have immediate access to an “on-demand” Corporate Planning service via phone or e-mail.

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Planning & Research as a Service

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We provide planning and research services that you can be confident in.

Accessible

Via phone, e-mail or messaging app, you can reach out to us with the same ease and speed that you can do within your organization.

Capable

Planning and Research – Deeply experienced, knowledgeable and competent police experts provide detailed research and analysis services for you on demand.

Competent

Our national cadre of police leaders have expertise in a broad spectrum of issues, and many of them are recognized through leaders in policing in Canada. Your planning and research question are review and addressed by policing experts who have experience in leading policing services.

Cost Advantageous

You only pay for the services you use. We provide you quotes on work requested the is anticipated to exceed 2 days of work. For smaller issues, we will provide you with an e-mail specifying the time required to address the question.

How is this possible?

Many police leaders have retired from their police service, but not from policing, and are still interested in supporting those leading police services. They want to put their depth of knowledge to use in service to communities. We have brought them together to help today’s police leaders with their pressing issues.

We provide services to support PSB’s in the development of Strategic Plans in compliance with Section 39 of the Community Safety and Policing Act.

Engaging

Through various methods and with our spectrum of tools, we provide residents, stakeholder. community groups, municipal governments, and agencies with the opportunity to contribute to the strategic planning process.

Capable

We have the benefit of years of experience in leading public sector agencies and strategic planning processes and have ourselves had to make difficult decisions about resources allocation and service provisioning stemming from these.

Competent

Our project teams includes specialists with extensive public and private sector experience in developing strategic plans. They have in-depth knowledge of civic governance, experience in leading organizational change in municipal government environments, ability to build and manage cross-functional organizational teams, depth of knowledge and experience in business process analysis and mapping, and extensive experience in stakeholder consultations and interviews in numerous environments.

Cost Advantageous

We have designed costing models specifically for small and mid-sized police services, aimed to provide the services you require, at a very reasonable price. Our additional related services as available from as additional “plug-ins” as desired.

How is this possible?

We draw upon experienced municpal and police leaders who and are still interested in supporting communities and police services across Ontario. We provide the opportunity for communities to benefit from their knowledge and experience, while providing a supported framework in which we can deliver our services.

Strategic Plan development for Ontario Police Services Boards

A strategic planning process must include meaningful engagement for the stakeholders, who must in turn feel that their contribution is heard, their needs are understood, and that the final product reflects the input of the community. Today, the stakeholder engagement process is in flux, with different groups having varying perceptions on community engagement. Communities across Ontario still have residents who expect “in-person” consultations, where the dynamism of the group is reflected in the conversations and the outcomes. Other residents believe that employing technology such as video conferencing is more efficient and cost effective, while still others look to social media as the appropriate venue that may insulate them from direct contact. Regardless of the medium and method, community consultation is needed to convey to the community that their voice matters, that their input is required and that the strategic plan will consider their input.
Through these various methods, and with our spectrum of tools, we can provide residents, stakeholder groups, municipal governments, and their agencies with the opportunity to contribute to the strategic planning process. We have the benefit of years of experience in leading public sector agencies and strategic planning processes and have ourselves had to make difficult decisions about resources allocation and service provisioning stemming from these.

The CP2S team is very cognizant of these needs and has consistently displayed that understanding in our community consultation work. Different projects define and consider stakeholder communities differently, and the CP2S team works with the leadership of the Board and the service to ensure that the community and stakeholders are able to have meaningful participation in the strategic planning process.

Helping police services respond to human trafficking

On June 14th, 2021, Sylvia Jones, the Ontario Solicitor General announced that this government has made available $5 million in funds to support police services in their efforts to combat human trafficking and intimate partner violence.

Consilium Public Sector Services Inc. (CP2S) is partnering with Timea’s Cause Inc. in the provisioning of services supported through this grant opportunity.

The Ontario government is investing $5 million over two years to enhance services and supports available to victims of intimate partner violence and human trafficking through the new Victim Support Grant (VSG) program. The grant will help police and communities improve services to help meet victims’ needs.

“Our government is protecting and supporting victims and survivors of intimate partner violence and human trafficking,” said Sylvia Jones, Solicitor General. “That is why we continue to provide our police services and community partners with the funding they need to develop new or enhance services, supports and resources that will strengthen local prevention efforts and help protect victims and survivors.”
The Solicitor General went on to commit that “All municipal and First Nation police services, as well as the Ontario Provincial Police can apply for funding through the VSG program”.

In this grant, “Applicants are required to work in collaboration with one other relevant organization, community agency or Indigenous community with expertise in supporting victims and survivors through a different sector such as justice, housing, education, health/mental health, community and social services, and children and youth services”.

In the Solicitor General’s news release, she provided that “The maximum funding for each project is $200,000 (i.e., $100,000 per funding year)” and that “Successful applicants will be required to track and collect provincially identified outcomes as well as identify their own local performance measures relevant to individual projects”. CP2S specializes in program evaluation, among other things, and can provide support to police leaders in this area as well.

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Human Trafficking training for front line officers

Provided in partnership with Timea’s Cause Online Training services.

Developing multi sectoral teams

The executives of CP2S have years of experience in police leadership and management in the design of innovative multisectoral teams to address issues ranging from mental health to intimate partner violence and have consulted with police agencies around the globe on community response to human trafficking.

Setting up collaborative community initiatives

Timea’s Cause has been designing and hosting community-mobilization workshops since 2015, having provided over 40 workshops with outstanding reviews and outcomes.

Supporting initiatives that are survivor-led

Timea’s Cause has developed a survivor-led training and awareness program for front-line uniformed officers and front-line community workers that will help build rapport and break down the barriers between service providers and victims in critical situations.

CP2S’s depth of knowledge and experience in policy and procedure design and development, in conjunction with our survivor-led approach, supports organizational focus on trafficking survivors that is embedded into procedures and practices, as well as organizational structural.

Launching education and awareness campaigns

Timea’s Cause has built a survivor-led online education and awareness programs for parents, youth and potential victims of human trafficking. The training focuses on the signs of potential traffickers.

Providing specialized training to law enforcement

Timea’s Cause has built an online school and created survivor-led education for victims, law enforcement and service providers to offer comprehensive cross-sectoral training and education.

Our experts

Kim Derry

(Ret'd) Deputy Chief -Field Operations - Toronto Police Service

Kim was helping young women out of their trafficking environment in the 1970’s, long before the term “human trafficking” evolved when he was with the Juvenile Task Force working in downtown Toronto. Since then he has been committed to this cause, and during his leadership of the FBI National Academy Associates, he institutionalized that global organizations commitment to battle human trafficking. Kim was the founder and current Chair of the Board of the Global Resource Epicenter Against Human Trafficking (GREAT).

Professor James Brown DProf(c), MSc, FRSA, CMM III (Police Executive)

Adjunct Professor of Criminology - Human Trafficking

Jim retired as an Inspector following over 33 years with the Toronto Police Service and moved onto academia. He holds a Master (with distinction) in Security Studies from the John Grieves Center for Community Safety and Security in London focused on human security, and his is a doctoral candidate in Policing, Security and Community Safety at the London Metropolitan University (UK), with his thesis focused on human trafficking in Canada. He teaches the advanced 4th year justice program on human trafficking at Ontario Tech University, and has been the organizer for the University’s annual human trafficking conferences since 2018. Jim is a Research Fellow with the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars (GAHTS). a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), and Executive Director of the Canadian registered charity, Global Resource Epicenter Against Human Trafficking (GREAT).

Dr. Marcel van der Watt

International human trafficking expert

Marcel served as a Detective with the human trafficking investigation unit of the South African Police Service. After leaving the police service, Marcel worked with NGO’s across sub-Saharan Africa in combatting human trafficking, including as a Case Manager for the National Freedom Network (NFN). Marcel was a lecturer on police practices at the University of South Africa, has been nominated to serve as a member of the group of experts on human trafficking with INTERPOL, and currently serves as a senior research analyst with the International Center on Sexual Exploitation in Washington D.C. Marcel is a Senior Research Fellow with the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars, a Research Fellow with the University of the Free State in South Africa, a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of South Africa and the Director of Research with the Global Resource Epicenter Against Human Trafficking (GREAT).

OUR OFFER

See the diverse range of services:

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Property Analysis

Property management is a high risk issue for todays police leaders. DCR staff have undertaken a number of high profile, complex and politically sensitive reviews in this field.

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Organizational structure and process reviews

Policing organizations in Ontario are complex entities with unique relationships both internally and externally. To gain a full understanding of how police organizations function takes years of training and experience. To understand the nuances of the relationship with their community, their Board and their politics, generally takes a career. DCR comes to the issue of organizational and process reviews with a tremendous depth of knowledge and experience.

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Organizational Risk Analysis

Policing is not about risk avoidance; its about risk management. To this end, police leaders need the best information they can obtain on the risks that issues pose to the organization, and how they can respond to that. DCR can help identify and develop risk mitigation strategies, as well as help articulate solutions with Board’s concerns in mind.

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Financial Analysis

Budgeting for public services, and the finances of police services have nuances that are unique. DCR undertakes their work in this field with a deep knowledge and understanding of its complexities.

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Human resource system analysis

The managing our people in the policing environment continues to become more complex. Selection, training, advancement, succession planning, retention, release and return to work are only some of the issues that police leaders have to address. Each issue have a veritable “minefield” of challenges that lay across it. DCR brings practical HR knowledge and experience to the discussion and our solution recommendations.

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NG 9-1-1

The Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG911) migration is introducing new services and new technology to Canadians. However this technology is also presenting new cost and new challenges to municipalities. Consilium has significant experience in the emergency communications services field, and is helping major stakeholders in their NG911 transition, including community consultations, technology road mapping and vendor relations.

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Asset Management

Owned assets management has many complexities, as well as opportunities for various types of ownership and renewal. DCR staff have designed and undertaken programs to ensure police services received the best value for money out of their ownership structure.

Training system analysis

Police training demands, costs and expectations continue to grow across Ontario. However, throwing “a bucket of training” at the problem seldom solves the issue. DCR comes to the discussion with significant experience in training, education, staff development and community training partnerships.