Annual report provides snapshot of policing in Waterloo Region last year | 24CA News
Waterloo Regional Police launched their annual report which gives a snapshot take a look at crime within the space in addition to how the service operates.
“This report represents and highlights a small part of the work our members do each and every day to keep the residents of Waterloo Region safe and well,” chief Mark Crowell stated in a prologue to the report.
The 2022 report reveals that police responded to nicely over 300,000 calls final yr though these will not be all the time felony in nature.
“Last year, our members responded to more than 339667 calls for service, investigating complex crimes, providing comfort and calm to those in need, and forging last relationships and partnerships within the community,” Crowell defined.
The main crimes unit was stored busy in 2022 because the report famous there have been eight homicides and 5 tried murders throughout the area final yr.
There had been additionally 25 shootings within the space with 19 of these coming in Kitchener whereas the area’s two different giant cities noticed two apiece and the final two occurred in Wellesley and Woolwich.
The opioid disaster additionally continues to afflict the world as police responded to 1,350 overdose calls in 2022, with 81 individuals dropping their lives as a result of drug overdoses.
Police had been capable of take 401 kilos of medicine and associated paraphanalia off the streets with the medication having a road worth of over $5.24 million, in line with the report.
The report additionally highlights one other difficulty within the area as there have been 6,196 home incidents reported, with 1,024 of these coming from repeat callers.
Police laid 3,835 home violence costs final yr, which reveals the issue shouldn’t be going away something quickly.
There has additionally been a variety of speak recently about misguided 911 calls, with that quantity leaping 19 per cent final yr in Waterloo Region.
The report says there eight error calls to 911 each hour with one occurring on common, each eight minutes.
With 67,284 so-called pocket dials in 2022, that represents the most important section of calls that had been answered by the service’s communications centre.
The centre additionally answered 52,245 calls from individuals who had been in want of assist from paramedics or a few hearth.
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