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2010 2011

Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships RCMP New Brunswick • Year in Review Mission, Vision, Values & Commitment

Our Mission Our Core Values The RCMP is Canada’s national police service. Proud of our traditions Recognizing the dedication of all employees, we will create and maintain and confident in meeting future challenges, we commit to preserve the an environment of individual safety, well-being, and development. We are peace, uphold the law, and provide quality service in partnership with our guided by integrity, honesty, professionalism, compassion, respect, and communities. accountability.

Our Vision Our Commitment to Communities We will be a progressive, proactive, and innovative organization, provide The employees of the RCMP are committed to our communities through the highest quality service through dynamic leadership, education and unbiased and respectful treatment of all people, accountability, mutual technology, in partnership with the diverse communities we serve, be problem solving, cultural sensitivity, enhancement of public safety, accountable and efficient through shared decision-making, ensure a healthy partnerships and consultation, open and honest communication, effective work environment that encourages team building, open communication and and efficient use of resources, and quality and timely service. mutual respect, promote safe communities, and demonstrate leadership in the pursuit of excellence.

RCMP Services in New Brunswick

District Policing (District 1 - District 11) Federal Policing: Media/Strategic Communications Codiac Regional RCMP Coastal/Airport Watch Operational & Financial Administration Commercial Crime Section Operational Records Management System Traffic Services: Coordinated Marihuana Enforcement Team Property Management Collision Analyst/Reconstruction Criminal Analysis Section Recruiting Highway Traffic Law Enforcement Team Criminal Intelligence Security Engineering - Lock Specialist Customs and Excise Security Systems - VIP & Building Security Operational Support Services: Drug Enforcement Auxiliary Constable Program Drugs and Organized Crime Services for employees: Crime Intervention/Hostage Negotiator Explosives Disposal Unit Alternate Dispute Resolution Drug Abuse Resistance Education ( D.A.R.E) Federal Enforcement Section Division Staff Relations Representative (DSRR) Emergency Response Team Immigration and Passport Fitness/Health and Lifestyle Advisor Ground Search and Rescue Integrated Border Enforcement Team Human Resources Forensic Art Specialist Integrated Intelligence Units In-Service Training Courses Forensic Identification Services Integrated Proceeds of Crime Member/Employee Assistance Program (MEAP) Internet Child Exploitation Unit Legal Application Support Team Major Serious/Crime Investigations Major Case Management Additional Services: National Sex Offender Registration Centre National Security Enforcement Section Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) Operational Readiness and Response / Special Intelligence Crime Stoppers Business Continuity Section Synthetic Drug Operations and Clandestine Lab Criminal Intelligence Service New Brunswick Police Dog Services (CISNB) Truth Verification Section (Polygraph) Corporate Services: Major Incident Commander Technological Crime/Criminal Internet Misuse Air Services Branch Underwater Recovery Team Assets and Procurement Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System Information Technology (Informatics) Youth, Aboriginal and Community Policing Internal Investigation Section

2 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Table of Contents

6 Criminal Operations: Measuring Our Progress 16 Codiac Regional RCMP 8 Focus on New Brunswick 18 District Policing 8 Crime Reduction: Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods 20 District 1 – Charlotte and the Isles 8 Youth-Oriented Community-Based Programs 22 District 2 – Oromocto 8 Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Citizens 24 District 3 – Kennebecasis 9 Highway Safety 26 District 4 – South East 9 Combating Organized Crime and the Drug Trade 28 District 5 – Kent 10 Victim Services 30 District 6 – Miramichi 10 Bilingual Service Delivery 32 District 7 – Carleton-York 10 Joint Technological Development 34 District 8 – Acadian Peninsula 10 Force Wellness 36 District 9 – Restigouche-Chaleur 11 First Nations Policing 38 District 10 – Madawaska-Victoria 11 Public Security 40 District 11 – Caledonia 11 The Year Ahead 42 Division Overview 12 Operational Support Services 46 Civilian Members Celebrate 50 Years of Service 14 Federal Policing

Our Accountability

This report is part of the RCMP in New Brunswick’s commitment to New Brunswickers can now also keep up to date with the RCMP in New accountability and keeping the communities we serve informed about Brunswick by subscribing to our RSS feed, or our Twitter and Facebook pages, both our progress and the challenges we face. The RCMP is committed which were launched in July 2010. to providing our partners and the public with timely, relevant information about what police are doing to help make New Brunswick a safe place for all. We are also committed to providing the public with practical information, advice, and tips to help them protect themselves from becoming victims of crime, or to report crimes or suspicious activity to police.

The RCMP in New Brunswick’s website is constantly updated with information and news releases about police investigations and initiatives throughout the province, along with information about policing priorities, programs and services, crime prevention, and unsolved crimes.

New Brunswick RCMP news releases can be accessed at www.rcmp-grc.ca/nb. Alternatively, you can become a subscriber and receive an e-mail alert each time a news release is posted. There is no charge for the service, and you can unsubscribe at any time. The site is among the most visited of the RCMP’s websites in Canada, receiving more than two million visits last year.

3 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships From the New Brunswick Minister of Public Safety

Becoming Canada’s Safest Province

As Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, I am quite proud of We also have introduced legislation to make it illegal for drivers to text the very strong and collaborative relationship we have with the RCMP or use hand-held devices like cell phones while behind the wheel. in New Brunswick. We take great pride in the strength of a vision that includes New Brunswickers depend on the essential service provided by the meaningfully engaging communities and community organizations RCMP, and we are very fortunate to work in partnership with them to in matters that affect their daily lives. find new and better ways to prevent crime, improve highway safety, and ensure our communities remain safe places to live and work. As our provincial police force, the RCMP is a critical stakeholder and partner in that process. They are in the front line of service delivery, As a government, we have committed to working closely with the and I look forward to working with them through the coming years as RCMP in a number of important crime prevention and crime solving we identify ways to improve our justice system for the betterment of areas. all New Brunswickers.

We are working to establish a provincial law enforcement task force Thank you, to tackle the growing problem of online child predators by the end Hon. Robert B. Trevors of 2011.

We are enhancing anti-bullying programs by working with principals, parents, teachers, students, and law enforcement on a multi-approach strategy to adopt best practices that will make our schools safer, more inclusive, and more supportive learning environments.

Our strategy will include adopting new tools and resources for dealing with behaviour issues, tougher rules for dealing with bullies and more support for victims.

4 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships From the Commanding Officer

As New Brunswickers, we should be proud that we live in one of the public safety issues. There is no question that reducing and preventing safest areas in the world. Becoming Canada’s safest province has crime will lead to an improved quality of life for all New Brunswickers. become the goal of your Royal Canadian Mounted Police in New That is a goal worth striving for, and I am confident it is achievable if Brunswick. As you will read in the pages ahead, we have implemented we all work together. a number of strategies which will better help us to solve crime, prevent crime, improve highway safety, and generally help New Brunswick I would like to take this opportunity to thank our partners and the citizens feel safer. citizens of New Brunswick. The RCMP enjoy tremendous support in New Brunswick, making it an excellent place to work and live. Of course, this does not mean that we are crime-free. Organized crime groups continue to operate within New Brunswick communities. There are criminals who exploit some of our most vulnerable citizens. In 2010, seniors made up nearly half of the province’s fraud victims. Earlier this year, police in New Brunswick seized millions of images Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of child sexual abuse, one of the largest such seizures ever made in RCMP New Brunswick Commanding Officer Canada. Police are also seeing more and more synthetic drugs turn up during seizures, drugs which are often targeted at young people.

While it is disheartening to hear of these things happening in our province, we do have the opportunity to reduce such crimes. However, becoming Canada’s safest province is something the RCMP cannot achieve on its own. It requires the involvement of the citizens of New Brunswick. The RCMP is constantly forming partnerships with other law enforcement agencies and community organizations to address

5 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Criminal Operations

Measuring our Progress For the past few years, the RCMP in New Brunswick has been working hard to create strategies to help our province become the safest in Canada. While there is currently no standardized tool used across the country to determine how safe a province is, we recognize that we must be able to measure and evaluate our progress and success to ensure we are deploying our resources efficiently and focusing on the areas that will go the furthest towards helping us achieve our goal. To help us in this regard, in consultation with external subject matter experts, the RCMP in New Brunswick has identified four key measures to help us determine how we compare to other Canadian provinces. Our progress in these areas can be measured drawing on data released by Statistics Canada and the Department of Transportation. Though “safety” is a very broad category, the four elements outlined below reflect areas in which police play a leading role, and are based on the RCMP’s vision of enhancing public safety and promoting safe communities.

1) The volume and severity of police-reported crime An important component of being the safest province involves having low crime rates. The RCMP in New Brunswick has implemented crime reduction strategies throughout the province, focused on those criminals and organized crime groups causing the most harm in our communities. We also work closely with community partners to intervene early with young people most at risk of becoming involved in criminal activity.

2) The amount and severity of crime solved by police The rate at which crime is solved in any given jurisdiction will have an impact on the safety of that jurisdiction, potentially preventing criminals from reoffending. The RCMP ensures it is well-positioned to solve crimes by placing an emphasis on collaboration with our law enforcement partners, criminal analysis, and providing ongoing training to our investigators.

3) The number of injury and fatal collisions occurring on our roadways A focus on reducing impaired driving and promoting seatbelt use through education and enforcement will help us contribute to reducing the number of injuries and fatalities that occur on our roadways. Among other initiatives, our officers conduct frequent check- stops, focus on enforcement of problem areas and the causes contributing to collisions, and continuously strive to promote safe driving practices.

Superintendent Wayne Gallant became the Officer in Charge of Criminal Operations for the RCMP in New Superintendant Wayne Gallant Brunswick in May 2011 replacing Chief Superintendent Todd Shean. He has been promoted to the rank of Criminal Operations Officer Chief Superintendent. 6 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Criminal Operations

4) Public perception of the criminal justice system and public Becoming Canada’s safest province is a long-term goal. Though we know safety our current efforts are making a difference, we want to see New Brunswick Recognizing that education and consistently at the top in all of these categories over the course of many years. awareness are critical to fostering Remaining focused on these four elements will help our officers continue safer communities and preventing to achieve strong results, but it is clear that the work of the police will not crime, the RCMP in New Brunswick is be the sole driving force in reaching our goal. It truly is a collaborative committed to ensuring members of effort. I encourage you all to continue working with your local police to help the public have the information they identify community priorities and partnerships that will move us all closer to need to help protect themselves from proclaiming New Brunswick the safest province in Canada. becoming victims of crime, as well as information about the role each individual can play in helping to make the province a safer place.

Component Current Rank Previous Rank Update New Brunswick’s Crime Severity Index between 2008 and 2009 decreased by 1%. Crime Severity Index 3rd 4th Data for 2010 will be available in July 2011. New Brunswick’s weighted clearance rate between 2008 and 2009 increased by Weighted Clearance Rates 5th 5th 5%. Data for 2010 will be available in December 2011. New Brunswick’s fatal collision rate between 2007 and 2008 decreased by 28%. Fatal Collision Rates 6th 8th Data for 2009 is expected in December 2011. New Brunswick’s injury collision rate between 2007 and 2008 decreased by 1%. Injury Collision Rates 6th 4th Data for 2009 is expected in December 2011. The perception of safety from crime in New Brunswick has remained relatively Perception of Safety from Crime 2nd 2nd constant between the surveys published in 2004 and in 2009. Updated data is expected in July 2014.

*The data used by Statistics Canada and the Department of Transportation includes not only RCMP jurisdictions, but all New Brunswick police forces. Rankings include all provinces and territories.

7 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Focus on New Brunswick

The RCMP in New Brunswick focuses on provincial priorities laid out by the Province of New Brunswick. These are in addition to local priorities set in consultation with the communities we serve, and the RCMP’s five National Priorities, which are reviewed and set annually by senior management. In 2010-2011, there were five national strategic priorities for the RCMP: Serious and Organized Crime, Youth, Aboriginal Communities, National Security, and Economic Integrity. As you will read, many provincial priorities closely resemble national priorities, and they frequently overlap and complement one another.

Crime Reduction: Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods reduce crime over the long term, the RCMP’s Community Program Officers Once again, our communities have and frontline police officers in New Brunswick have taken on an increased been identified by Statistics Canada role in preventing future crimes, by working with our partners to intervene as being among the safest in the early with youth at risk of being lured into illegal activities. Since December country, and the RCMP in New 2010, more than 50% of RCMP officers in New Brunswick have received risk Brunswick continues to promote screening training to help identify young people at risk, so that steps can proven crime reduction and be taken to direct them to the appropriate services before they commit a prevention strategies, designed to crime. Additional training has been provided on other techniques to assist increase public safety and reduce in reducing youth recidivism, including the implementation of community- the number of people victimized by based Restorative Justice Committees and Youth Justice Forums. RCMP crime. employees including frontline officers and investigators, Community Program Officers, and members of our Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Services The New Brunswick RCMP’s crime reduction strategy, focused on thorough team have also continued offering presentations about drug use and abuse, intelligence analysis aimed at disrupting the activities of the chronic and online safety, and the dangers of impaired driving, among other issues, to repeat offenders causing the most harm to our communities, was first students, parents and community leaders throughout New Brunswick. implemented in New Brunswick in 2007. Since then, the approach has consistently enabled us to achieve impressive results in property crime reduction throughout the province. Over the past year, the RCMP has Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Citizens successfully identified and arrested more than 350 chronic property crime While we are very fortunate to live offenders in New Brunswick. This is due in large part to the invaluable work in one of the safest places in Canada, being done by our team of crime analysts, who create reports identifying we know that criminals continue to trends, patterns, and crime hot spots, which can also help forecast and exploit and victimize some of our prevent crime before it occurs. most vulnerable citizens, including children and senior citizens. Some Managing offenders once they have been released, to ensure they abide of the threats to these individuals by court-ordered conditions, is also a key part of reducing crime. The RCMP come from criminals operating from throughout the province continue to place an emphasis on conducting curfew a distance, such as sexual predators and street checks to ensure that these conditions are being met, while at the luring children over the Internet, same time working with community and government partners to develop or fraud artists conducting scams initiatives and programs to reduce the likelihood that criminals will reoffend through e-mail or via telephone. upon release. Recognizing that prevention efforts are critical to effectively combating these crimes, we have increased our efforts to proactively raise awareness about Internet child exploitation and Youth-Oriented Community-Based Programs financial crimes, as well as other abuses committed against senior citizens. Many of the chronic and repeat property crime offenders identified and arrested in 2010-2011 were young offenders. To address this reality, and

8 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Focus on New Brunswick

In March 2011, the RCMP in New Brunswick’s Internet Child Exploitation unit (ICE), working in collaboration with other municipal police forces, conducted In appreciation of her dedication and courage in sharing her story in order a series of searches leading to the arrest of four people from different New to raise awareness about the dangers Brunswick communities, and made several seizures, including one of the largest and consequences of impaired driving, collections of child sexual abuse images in Canada. Since that time, concerted Ms. Kali O’Dell was presented with a efforts have been made to share practical information with parents about how Commanding Officer’s certificate of they can protect their children from online predators, and collaborative efforts appreciation this past January. She is to educate youth about online safety are ongoing. A working group consisting shown here with Sgt. Claude Tremblay of of RCMP and municipal police forces throughout New Brunswick has also been the RCMP’s Traffic Services. formed, and efforts to establish a provincial law enforcement task force to develop a coordinated strategy to tackle this growing problem are currently underway. In addition to enforcement efforts, the RCMP also continues to work with our Meanwhile, in 2011, the RCMP in New community partners to offer a variety of educational programs and prevention Brunswick’s Commercial Crime Section programs including the Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth (CCS) conducted its second month-long (PARTY) program, Teens Against Drunk Driving (TADD), and Operation Red Fraud Prevention campaign, promoting Nose. a variety of useful tips and information about some of the frauds and scams As we move forward, we will continue to focus on education and enforcement most commonly targeting senior efforts aimed at reducing the high risk behaviours contributing to collisions and citizens, who accounted for nearly half injuries: impaired driving, seatbelt use, and aggressive driving. We continue to of all fraud victims in New Brunswick in examine how we provide traffic services to ensure that we are providing the 2010. most effective service possible. We are also placing an increased emphasis on analyzing the factors involved in serious collisions, enabling us to better focus our efforts on those areas. Highway Safety The overall safety of our roadways is one of the factors the RCMP takes into consideration when measuring its progress towards becoming Canada’s safest Combating Organized Crime and the Drug Trade province. In 2010, 80 people were killed on New Brunswick roadways, up from Organized crime groups are profit-driven. Though primarily associated with 57 in 2009. In almost 40% of those fatalities, alcohol is believed to have been the drug trade, these groups are also frequently involved in contraband a factor, compared to 25% the previous year. Of those killed, 40% were not tobacco, firearms, human smuggling, prostitution, fraud, the sale of wearing a seatbelt at the time of the collision. Efforts to reduce these numbers counterfeit goods, and other criminal activities. Most alarmingly, these groups through both enforcement and education are ongoing. In 2010, RCMP laid often exploit young people, either by selling them dangerous drugs and illegal more than 1,200 charges for impaired driving in New Brunswick, and tickets tobacco products in the hopes of expanding their market, or by luring them written for seatbelt violations increased by 12.5%. into criminal activities with the promise of easy money.

While the police play a large role in patrolling highways and roads, conducting The RCMP in New Brunswick works closely with a wide variety of law regular check stops and enforcing traffic laws, making our roadways the safest enforcement, government, and community partners to identify and disrupt the in the country will require a collective effort. In December 2010, at the official criminal activities of those groups causing the most harm in New Brunswick. launch of New Brunswick’s annual Operation Christmas road safety campaign, Regional Integrated Intelligence Units collect intelligence for analysis by crime 16-year-old Kali O’Dell spoke to New Brunswickers about the role they can play analysts, to develop an evidence-based understanding of which organized in helping to ensure the roads we travel on are safe for all. In 2006, an impaired criminal groups and activities pose the greatest risk to the safety and well- driver was responsible for a crash that killed Miss O’Dell’s mother and father being of our communities. The RCMP then joins with other law enforcement and caused her and her brother serious injuries. Her message struck a powerful agencies on integrated teams to investigate these criminal groups and bring chord: “I should still have a childhood but I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to them before the courts. have to live through this. Remember my family. Don’t drink and drive.”

9 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Focus on New Brunswick

In 2010, the RCMP in New Brunswick seized 23,000 marijuana plants from Bilingual Service Delivery locations across the province during the outdoor growing season, a 53% Currently, more than 70% of all the positions in the RCMP in New Brunswick increase over the previous year. The plants had the potential to produce more are bilingual. The RCMP continues to make sure the Force meets provincial than 10 million joints. The RCMP believes that dismantling these operations language expectations by ensuring employees make an active offer of official is an important part of deterring organized crime from selling marijuana in language choice to clients, performing continual quality monitoring and our neighbourhoods, and attempting to profit from criminal activities in providing language training. Over the past year, the RCMP has continued to New Brunswick. Numerous indoor marijuana grow-operations, which pose offer a variety of language learning programs, including classroom, one-on- significant health and safety risks to area residents, were also dismantled in one and computer-based training to help employees learn or improve their 2010-2011. English or French language skills.

Measures are also being taken to combat synthetic drugs, which include potentially lethal drugs like methamphetamine and ecstasy. Police are Joint Technological Development continuing to seize more of these types of drugs. In September 2010, to The RCMP in New Brunswick continues effectively combat this trend, the New Brunswick RCMP’s Drug Section put to seek innovative ways to securely together an enforcement team dedicated to targeting all levels of synthetic share information and data with other drug trafficking in the province, following the strategy set forth by the RCMP’s police agencies in New Brunswick, and national Synthetic Drugs Initiative. A wide variety of education and awareness to participate in discussions with the presentations on the dangers of these drugs are also being offered to students New Brunswick Chiefs of Police, aimed and community groups throughout the province. at finding solutions to information- sharing challenges. The RCMP in New Brunswick and in the Atlantic Region Organized crime groups continue to profit from the sale of illegal also continue to be engaged in the Maritime Radio Communication Initiative, which seeks to establish a radio tobacco. In 2010, the RCMP in New Brunswick seized nearly 20,000 system enabling emergency personnel in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and cartons of contraband tobacco, for a total of nearly 4 million illegal Prince Edward Island to communicate across agencies and across boundaries. cigarettes.

Force Wellness Victim Services Fostering an engaged, inspired and healthy workforce is an important The RCMP recognizes the importance of ensuring that victims of crime are component of helping us to achieve our goal of becoming Canada’s safest provided with information, support and resources, not only to help them cope province, and the RCMP remains committed to improving workforce wellness with the physical or psychological trauma they have experienced, but also to for all of our employees. In 2010, a Resiliency Committee was formed to help them navigate and understand the criminal justice system. Over the past address issues surrounding operational stress injuries. Other groups including year, we have continued working to increase the number of referrals to the the Women’s Advisory Committee and the Employee Advisory Committee Provincial Victim Services program made by frontline police and employees, continue to play a key role in ensuring that specific employee needs are to address gaps in that area. Ongoing training for frontline police also remains recognized and addressed. In addition, a variety of initiatives including a a priority, and in 2010, a Victim Services module was incorporated into mentorship program to help develop frontline supervisors, workshops for mandatory Violence in Relationships training throughout the Division. team leaders, and orientation packages for members new to their districts have been developed to assist employees making the transition into new roles or moving to new locations.

Crime Stoppers in New Brunswick Since 1985, Crime Stoppers has helped to solve thousands of cases in New Brunswick, many of which might otherwise have remained unsolved without information provided to the program. Information on unsolved crimes can be provided anonymously to Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS. Information leading to an arrest may qualify for a cash award of up to $2,000.

10 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Focus on New Brunswick

Ongoing Areas of Focus

First Nations Policing Public Security In May 2010, Elsipogtog Elders presented Cpl. De-Anne Sack with the honour In November and December of carrying the Agenootoomagenapii Staff, in recognition of the contribution 2010, severe weather and floods she has made to the well-being of their community. Cpl. Sack is a Mi’kmaq throughout the province necessitated woman from the Shubenacadie First Nation, and has been working in the implementation of numerous Elsipogtog for six years as a District 5 RCMP member. This form of recognition Emergency Operations Plans, and the reflects the RCMP’s commitment to building strong partnerships with the First RCMP in New Brunswick’s Emergency Nations communities it serves. Over the past year, the RCMP in New Brunswick Operations Center was called upon has continued to work closely with First Nations communities on the to work with municipal, provincial, implementation of a strategic five-year plan to help reduce and prevent crime federal and other law enforcement in Aboriginal communities by helping to divert at-risk young people away partners to help mitigate potential from criminal behaviour by connecting them with the appropriate services and risks and threats to public safety in all affected communities. The RCMP in New programs. Over the past year, the Commanding Officer’s Aboriginal Advisory Brunswick continues to work closely with the New Brunswick Department of Committee, which is open to all First Nations communities policed by the Public Safety to develop and maintain up-to-date Operational Response and RCMP, has met twice to discuss strategic direction, as well as to consult on Readiness Plans addressing areas such as terrorism, major aircraft disaster, various initiatives related to the plan. health emergencies/pandemics, incident management, and mobilization. In 2010-2011, the RCMP in New Brunswick’s Operational Response and Readiness (ORR) team also assisted each RCMP district in New Brunswick in designing business continuity plans to ensure minimal disruption to police services and operations in the event of an arising emergency situation.

Our Commitment to Service RCMP members and employees respond to tens of thousands of calls a year in New Brunswick. Those calls for service are always prioritized. When someone’s life is in jeopardy, they are at risk of injury or there is a crime in progress, people are urged to call 9-1-1 and the RCMP will respond immediately. For those calls which do not require an immediate response (i.e., crimes which took place days earlier, calls for information), the RCMP has a toll free number: 1-888-506-RCMP (7267).

The Year Ahead The RCMP in New Brunswick believes that every dollar spent on policing services on in the year ahead include investigations into child internet exploitation, is an investment in the long-term well-being and safety of our communities. combating the synthetic drug trade in our region, and reducing impaired Recognizing that the costs of policing, along with other emergency and driving and seatbelt violations through enforcement and education. We will government services, are among the most significant expenditures for also continue working closely with our partners to intervene early with at-risk municipalities, we will ensure that the public continues to receive an excellent youth, and to develop community-based Restorative Justice Forums for young return on their investment. In order to make the best possible use of resources, people. the RCMP will continue working with government and community partners to identify efficiencies, opportunities for integration and collaboration, and Though the current fiscal climate remains challenging, and will require innovative solutions to policing challenges. continuous evaluation and critical assessment of our services, our primary focus continues to be public safety, protecting our most vulnerable citizens, Over the past several years, our approach to crime reduction and prevention and deterring and preventing crime. The RCMP is committed to helping has achieved significant results, and we will continue to implement strategies New Brunswick become the safest province in Canada, and we will continue aimed at lowering crime and victimization rates over the long term. Some building the relationships and partnerships needed to achieve our goal. of the areas the RCMP in New Brunswick will be placing particular emphasis

11 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Operational Support Services

Operational Support Services (OSS) units provide a wide range of specialized services to police throughout New Brunswick as part of the Provincial Policing Contract. OSS units investigate major and serious crimes including homicides and Internet child exploitation, respond to high-risk emergency situations, and provide an array of support services and expertise to frontline police officers and enforcement units.

The past year has been an Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) centre analyzed nearly 225 violent extraordinarily busy one for members crimes committed in New Brunswick, in order to identify possible offenders. of the RCMP in New Brunswick’s OSS The following highlights represent only a portion of the excellent results our units. Our Crisis Negotiation Team units have achieved, and exemplify the invaluable role specialized support was deployed on ten occasions, our services play in solving crime, managing crises, and providing invaluable Emergency Response Team was support to frontline investigators. A complete list of OSS services is available deployed 18 times, including to on page 2 of this report. the G8 summit in Ontario, and New Brunswick’s Ground Search and Rescue team, composed primarily of Major investigations and initiatives volunteers, contributed close to 5,000 hours to nearly 90 searches conducted across the province. Meanwhile, employees working in the Violent Major Crime In the past year, Major Crime employees once again demonstrated their expertise and commitment, as they investigated some of the most serious crimes committed in New Brunswick, including eight homicides that took place during fiscal year 2010-2011. In April 2010, Major Crime investigators also concluded an investigation spanning 15 years by laying charges in the 1995 double homicide of Mary Lou Barnes and her 12-year-old son Larry Mills Jr. in Sackville. That this matter was brought before the courts after such a long period of time is a testament to the perseverance and patience of investigators, determined to successfully solve even the most complex and difficult cases.

Unsolved Crimes New Brunswick still has a number of outstanding homicide and suspicious death investigations, many of them dating back several years. To ensure that all avenues of investigation have been exhausted, a senior RCMP member has been tasked with reviewing each case in detail, in order to identify any possibility that the case could be resolved successfully. For information about these cases, please visit www.rcmp.ca/nb

Superintendant Greg Lawlor Officer in Charge of Operational Support Services

12 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Operational Support Services

Missing Persons damage in November and December. The team worked tirelessly during this Over the past year, members of the New Brunswick Violent Crimes Linkage event, relaying critical information to the front line and ensuring support Analysis System (ViCLAS) team spearheaded a review of all missing person services, including use of the RCMP’s helicopter, were provided to communities reports in New Brunswick. The data collected is now being reviewed by the in need. Divisional Criminal Analysis Section (DCAS) to determine whether or not there are any trends or links which may not have been observed in the past. Operational Communications Many investigations begin with police receiving an emergency call. In 2010, Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) the Operational Communications Centre, located in J Division Headquarters in In 2010-2011, the RCMP in New Brunswick’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit Fredericton, handled more than 61,000 calls, nearly 45% of which were 911 continued to focus on protecting young people from online predators through emergency calls. In addition, OCC operators also assist employees and the front enforcement, and ongoing efforts to raise awareness about Internet safety. In line by forwarding or dispatching calls, and relaying vital information on a March 2011, ICE investigators, in conjunction with municipal law enforcement round the clock basis. agencies across New Brunswick, conducted a series of searches resulting in the arrest of four people, and the seizure of what is believed to be the largest collection of child sexual abuse images ever seized in Canada. This year also saw The Year Ahead the successful conclusion of Tracyville resident Michael Gilbert’s prosecution. As we move forward, OSS units will continue to enhance the services they Gilbert was sentenced to fifteen years in jail for sexual assault and production provide by focusing on strengthening our partnerships with agencies including of child pornography, by far the longest sentence imposed by the courts in New other police departments, and fire and ambulance services. Our ICE unit will Brunswick for this type of offence. also continue working to protect New Brunswick’s young people from online predators and sexual offenders. We are also focused on ensuring that our members receive continuous training to ensure they have the skills they need Operational Response and Readiness (ORR) to help prevent tragedies and solve serious crimes, in a fast-paced, constantly In 2010, the Divisional Emergency Operation Center (DEOC) was activated changing and increasingly global, technological landscape. twice, in response to serious weather events causing extensive flooding and

More than 120 volunteers work as Auxiliary Constables in New Brunswick. In 2010-2011, they contributed more than 16,000 hours of their time assisting the RCMP with community events, operations, and initiatives.

13 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Federal Policing in New Brunswick

Federal policing works to disrupt and dismantle organized crime groups involved in drug trafficking, smuggling, contraband tobacco, money laundering, economic crime, and other inter-provincial and cross-border crime. In addition, federal police are enhancing the safety and security of New Brunswick, and helping to protect the vital economic and cultural relationship we share with the United States by contributing to secure borders and international waterways. Through the collective effort of more than 160 personnel working in more than 20 areas of specialization and expertise, with offices strategically located in all regions of the province, we frequently undertake investigations with integrated teams comprised of investigators from other RCMP districts, the Codiac Regional RCMP, and other municipal police forces.

The nature of federal policing sometimes makes us less visible to the public, but we are constantly working to reduce crime by bringing the highest levels of criminality to justice. We also lead integrated teams in support of municipal and provincial police operations, guided by information collected by regional intelligence units and interpreted by our divisional crime analysts. We share a common goal: helping New Brunswick become the safest province in Canada.

Major Operations and Initiatives

Combating Synthetic Drugs In response to an increase in seizures throughout New Brunswick, our Drug Section established an enforcement team in September 2010, dedicated to targeting all levels of synthetic drug trafficking in the province, following the strategy set forth by the RCMP’s National Synthetic Drugs Initiative. Recognizing that enforcement alone is not enough, our Synthetic Drugs Operations Coordinator also delivered numerous presentations in schools, universities, and communities across New Brunswick in an effort to raise awareness about the dangers of these drugs. In October 2010, we provided training and certification for the RCMP Atlantic Region Clandestine Lab Team and also trained firefighters, paramedics and chemical disposal technicians, who may be called to respond to the site of a synthetic drug lab.

Marijuana Eradication In 2010, the Coordinated Marihuana Enforcement Team once again led the RCMP’s annual outdoor marijuana eradication operation in New Brunswick, during the outdoor growing season. More than 23,000 marijuana plants were seized from numerous sites across the province. Each plant could have potentially produced up to 500 joints.

Superintendant Guy Rook Federal Policing Officer

14 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Federal Policing in New Brunswick

Financial Crime and Fraud Prevention Counterfeit Goods In 2010-2011, Proceeds of Crime investigators successfully assisted several Recognizing the increasingly borderless nature of criminality, the RCMP in municipal police forces and RCMP districts in the seizure of more than $275,000 New Brunswick’s Federal Enforcement Section participated in INTERPOL’s in cash and assets from various criminal groups and individuals involved in annual counterfeit medicine initiative, Operation Pangea, in October 2010, crime, for forfeiture to the Attorney General of New Brunswick. Working with by collaborating with Health Canada to conduct an information session for the RCMP in Hampton, investigators also concluded a two-year investigation retirees on how to recognize the signs that a website may be selling counterfeit into fraud, resulting in the return of more than $230,000 dollars to a private pharmaceuticals, and how to report suspicious websites to the authorities. businessperson in the Sussex area. In addition, more than $150,000 and several homes and vehicles were seized for forfeiture to the Attorney General of The Year Ahead Canada. Meanwhile, in addition to conducting several ongoing investigations, We will continue our focus on reducing in March 2011, our Commercial Crime Section once again led a month-long crime by bringing the organized crime prevention campaign aimed at providing New Brunswick citizens with the groups profiting from criminal activities information they need to protect themselves from common frauds and scams. in New Brunswick before the courts, and preventing them from causing further Border Integrity harm to our communities. Recognizing Once again, the RCMP in New Brunswick’s that we have an opportunity in New Customs and Excise unit (C&E) played a Brunswick to avert the damage other key role in preventing large quantities areas of Canada have experienced as a of contraband tobacco, marijuana and result of synthetic drugs, we will continue to place an emphasis on combating other illegal drugs from circulating in the synthetic drug trade through both enforcement and education initiatives. our neighbourhoods by intercepting In addition, we will work to further advance the collaborative approach to smugglers on our roadways and border integrity we have established, working closely with U.S. agencies to conducting investigations into criminal help ensure the benefit of a secure border is maintained. We will also continue trafficking rings. In addition to seizing to lead the collective effort to excel at intelligence collection and crime analysis millions of illegal cigarettes and approximately 100 kilograms of marijuana, through the alignment of effort, training, tools, standards, and processes C&E investigators also made two significant cocaine seizures in downtown supporting criminal investigations, crime prevention, and traffic safety Moncton, both of which resulted in lengthy prison sentences for those operations throughout the province. attempting to smuggle the drugs. Also contributing to the integrity of our borders, RCMP members working with the Integrated Border Enforcement Team assisted in numerous cross-border investigations, including the timely interception of a U.S. fugitive wanted for sexual assault and rape at gunpoint, who had illegally crossed into New Brunswick in August 2010.

15 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Codiac Regional RCMP Inspector Marlene Snowman

Codiac employees and the citizens of Dieppe, Moncton, and Riverview once again have much to be proud of in their policing service for 2010. Operationally, it was one of the busiest years in Codiac’s history. In addition to several major and complex investigations, the Codiac RCMP also developed a security plan for the IAAF World Junior Track and Field Games hosted by Moncton in July 2010. Representatives from the IAAF, participating countries, and local organizers gave rave reviews of how security was handled and on the overall success of the games themselves.

Despite the demanding operational tempo of 2010, our employees demonstrated tremendous dedication and ability to band together and work with the community to solve, deter, and prevent crime, once again making the communities served by the Codiac Regional RCMP among the safest in the country.

Our Priorities including use of a risk-screening tool to aid with early intervention. We have also continued to place an emphasis on prevention by building strong Crime Reduction partnerships with schools. Over the past year, several Codiac members from our Crime Reduction is now simply the way business gets done in Codiac. Our Patrol, Traffic, and Police Dog Sections have participated in school initiatives, efforts with crime reduction continued to drive our property crime rates down and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program was delivered to by another 7%. This is particularly remarkable, given that many of the units most Grade 6 classrooms in the region. normally devoted to crime reduction were also doing double duty by assisting with several major investigations for much of the year. The RCMP in Your Community In December 2010, the City of Safer Roads Moncton concluded a rigorous review In 2010, we participated in several successful anti-impaired driving campaigns, of policing services, consulting and placed particular emphasis on problem intersections and aggressive extensively with community and drivers. To read about our Safe Roads, Safe Communities campaign, please government partners. Meanwhile, visit: www.rcmp.ca/nb/codiac Dieppe and Riverview also conducted policing reviews. Codiac worked hard to assist with this process by providing all information requested and Youth outlining the scope of policing services Preventing at-risk young people from currently provided to Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview. It was ultimately becoming involved in more serious recommended that Moncton retain the current policing model, a testament crime later in life will ultimately help to the excellent service being provided by the Codiac Regional RCMP. Though us to reduce crime in the long term. this is encouraging, Codiac is committed to continuous improvement, and we Over the past year, we’ve achieved are constantly assessing our service delivery model for possible improvements, a 9% reduction in young people in consultation with our community partners. charged with crimes, and continued to work with our partners on the development of a focused Youth Inspector Marlene Snowman became the Officer in Charge of Codiac Regional RCMP in May 2011. Intervention and Diversion strategy, She has been promoted to the rank of Superintendant.

16 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Codiac Regional RCMP: Criminal Activity - Codiac Regional RCMP (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 Crimes Against Persons • Moncton Homicide 0 2 2 • Dieppe Offences related to death 6 7 6 • Riverview Robbery 47 56 40 Sexual assaults 69 79 72 Other sexual offences 18 10 8 Assault 862 906 910 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 15 20 14 Extortion 3 4 3 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 153 160 177 Uttering threats 371 344 364 Total 1544 1588 1596 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 469 612 481 Theft of motor vehicle 233 224 158 Theft over $5000 43 46 62 Theft equal or under $5000 2073 2245 2181 Possession of property obtained by crime 73 84 66 Fraud 448 345 323 Arson 34 27 26 Mischief 1195 1104 1063 Total 4568 4687 4360 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 83 116 63 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 130 147 92 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 16 7 12 Peace disturbance related offences 1623 1535 1645 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 780 770 797 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 49 36 46 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 12 14 40 Other Criminal Code 72 56 87 Total 2765 2681 2782 Total Criminal Code 8877 8956 8738 The Year Ahead Federal Going forward in 2011-2012, Codiac will continue to focus on the priorities Drug Enforcement - Production 7 5 10 Drug Enforcement - Possession 215 143 230 established through consultation with our partners in Moncton, Dieppe, and Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 113 81 118 Riverview. Drug Enforcement - Other 1 0 3 Customs and Excise Act 57 27 12 • We will place further emphasis on making Codiac’s roads safer. Youth Criminal Justice Act 121 114 158 Federal - General 134 91 88 • We will continue to grow our crime reduction efforts. Total Federal 648 461 619 • We will focus upon reducing the number of crimes against persons Provincial Statutes with a particular emphasis in ensuring our downtown core is the Liquor Control 50 44 52 safest of any urban centre in the country. Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 1415 1669 2045 Total Provincial Statutes 1465 1713 2097 • We will work to create safer environments for our young people by Traffic Collisions implementing a robust Youth Diversion strategy, and increasing our Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 4 3 2 focus on Internet Child Exploitation. Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 370 439 329 • We will maintain and grow our focus on the efforts of organized crime, Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 0 0 0 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 6 1 3 particularly as it relates to the illegal drug trade in Codiac. Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 1299 1472 1802 • We will continue to support an engaged and healthy workforce Total Traffic Collisions 1679 1915 2136 committed to providing quality policing services to our communities Provincial Traffic Enforcement 1271 1508 1410 in a manner that is as cost-efficient as possible. Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 121 99 91 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 134 133 134 Impaired operation related offences 620 502 513 Total Criminal Code Traffic 754 635 647

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 17 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District Policing

Over the next several pages, you will read about the exciting police work, issues and challenges that are being tackled in each of your areas by our district personnel. While each district adapts its strategies to meet the unique needs of the communities it serves, you will notice that the RCMP across New Brunswick shares a collective vision and a consistent approach to tackling the challenges we face.

Focus on the Front Line The District Policing Program strives to provide quality policing services in the New Brunswick’s District Policing Program began in 1996, with the formation most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. Like many government of what is currently District 8 in the Acadian Peninsula. Based on a regional agencies, the current climate of fiscal restraint has led us to seek creative and policing model, each district consists of several detachments located within innovative solutions to policing challenges, and to make the most of the a specified geographic region of the province. Today, there are 11 RCMP resources we have. Our primary goal is to ensure that frontline police officers Districts, or regional police forces, operating in New Brunswick. Each district are able to focus as much time as possible on each community’s policing is overseen by a District Commander, who is the RCMP equivalent of a Chief priorities. Over the past year, several new support services have been of Police, in charge of operations for that area. In addition to Codiac Regional implemented across New Brunswick to help ease the administrative burden RCMP employees, there are currently 550 frontline police officers, 17 Civilian placed on frontline officers, enabling them to spend more time conducting Members, and nearly 100 Public Service Employees working and serving in investigations, patrolling, and working directly with their communities. communities throughout New Brunswick.

Superintendent Ross White Superintendent Norm Goulet District Policing Officer (West) District Policing Officer (East)

18 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District Policing

Recognizing that safe roadways are critical In addition, many of our local priorities– traffic safety, crime reduction, youth to achieving our goal of becoming Canada’s and Aboriginal policing - are determined through a consultative process that safest province, we have also adapted our involves meeting with community groups and leaders, along with our own divisional Traffic Service delivery model to employees. Each year, every District prepares an annual performance plan further enhance our ability to reduce the (APP), which determines their strategic direction for the year ahead, ensuring number of serious injury and fatal collisions that the needs of the communities they police are addressed. that occur on roadways throughout the province. Ultimately, all of our efforts are aimed at helping to improve quality of life for all New Brunswick residents and visitors, by making our communities safe and secure places to live, work, or visit. Creating Safe Communities Throughout New Brunswick, district policing is dedicated to reducing and preventing crime in our communities by focusing on the small percentage of The Year Ahead criminals responsible for causing the most harm. Our divisional crime reduction All districts will continue to focus on strategy, implemented in all districts, focuses on property crime offenders, reducing and preventing crime, building drug dealers, and offenders breaching court orders. Overall, property related strong relationships with our community crimes in RCMP policed jurisdictions have dropped by 4% over the past three partners, contributing to safer roadways, years. A province-wide initiative aimed at assessing the needs of young people and working closely with young people at risk of becoming involved in crime is also currently being implemented in to help them understand the dangers of all RCMP districts in New Brunswick. The aim of this program is to prevent illegal drugs, dangerous and impaired future criminality by diverting young people at risk from leading lives of crime. driving, bullying, online predators, and Many partnerships are currently being forged throughout the province to help other risks to their safety. As we move us achieve this goal. forward, the District Policing program will continue working to find innovative ways to increase our efficiency, streamline our operational flexibility, and integrate our resources whenever possible.

RCMP New Brunswick Districts

19 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 1 - Charlotte and the Isles Staff Sergeant Larry MacDonald

The past year has been an extremely busy one for the RCMP in Charlotte and the Isles. In addition to our ongoing efforts to reduce, prevent, and solve crime, we also tackled serious crime investigations including an armed robbery at the St. Stephen Credit Union, and provided policing services for large events such as Atlanticade 2010 in St. Andrews and New River Beach’s annual Sand Castle Day. We were also challenged in December 2010, when Charlotte County experienced some of the worst flooding in the region’s recorded history. The RCMP helicopter was brought in, and our members worked closely with the Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) and a number of local agencies whose partnership proved invaluable as we worked to barricade roads, escort people to safety, monitor dams and watersheds, and to offer help and support to individuals who had lost their homes and possessions. Though our region suffered a great deal of damage, no lives were lost and no serious injuries were reported.

Our Priorities Partnerships and Community Throughout the past year, our Community Crime Reduction and Safer Roads Program Officer delivered nearly 200 Over the past year, Charlotte and the presentations at schools throughout the Isles has achieved a 12% drop in property region, on issues such as bullying and offences. Numerous individuals who failed cyberbullying, and met with seniors to to abide by the conditions of their probation discuss preventing elder abuse and avoiding or release have been arrested, with frauds and scams. In addition, we continued additional charges laid. In addition, our to work closely with at-risk young people, crime analyst was able to identify high risk with the aim of diverting them from lives of areas for traffic offences in our region, and crime by helping them to resolve the underlying issues leading them down the our members have completed check stops wrong path. We have also continued to partner with Crime Stoppers, and the and increased traffic enforcement to reduce impaired, dangerous, or reckless Citizens on Patrol Group (COPS), who have proven to be a tremendous asset to drivers in these areas. the region. We have also recently introduced a Neighbourhood Watch Program in the Blacks Harbour and Musquash areas.

Drug Enforcement Several operations and initiatives have been successful in disrupting the The Year Ahead drug trade in our communities. In 2010, more than 700 marijuana plants On behalf of District 1 RCMP, I would like to thank the citizens of Charlotte and were seized from various locations, and many search warrants resulting in the Isles for their tremendous assistance and support. Your collective efforts illegal drug seizures have been executed on various residences and properties have truly made a difference. We will continue to build on our successes in throughout the district. crime reduction and prevention, and will work to strengthen and maintain our partnerships with local agencies and community groups. We look forward to continuing to work with our partners and the public to help make our region a very safe place to live and work.

20 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 1 - Charlotte and the Isles Criminal Activity - District 1 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 2 0 Offences related to death 0 1 0 • Campobello • St. Andrews Robbery 2 2 3 • Deer Island • St. George Sexual assaults 16 26 16 • Grand Manan • St. Stephen Other sexual offences 2 9 6 • Point Lepreau Assault 262 278 258 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 6 2 1 Extortion 0 2 0 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 61 70 67 Uttering threats 145 126 131 Total 494 518 482 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 181 153 136 Theft of motor vehicle 41 28 32 Theft over $5000 9 6 5 Theft equal or under $5000 262 258 265 Possession of property obtained by crime 23 32 18 Fraud 40 61 44 Arson 17 26 25 Mischief 383 390 317 Total 956 954 842 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 47 36 27 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 20 19 21 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 1 2 2 Peace disturbance related offences 296 422 422 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 160 157 102 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 1 1 2 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 0 1 1 Other Criminal Code 7 11 8 Total 532 649 585 Total Criminal Code 1982 2121 1909 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 20 28 40 Drug Enforcement - Possession 63 65 52 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 31 34 28 Drug Enforcement - Other 3 3 2 Customs and Excise Act 21 12 5 Youth Criminal Justice Act 22 19 17 Federal - General 20 23 32 Total Federal 180 184 176 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 150 66 37 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 1147 1257 1215 Total Provincial Statutes 1297 1323 1252 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 1 1 5 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 61 74 94 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 1 1 2 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 8 13 6 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 374 406 312 Total Traffic Collisions 445 495 419 Provincial traffic enforcement 538 611 1575 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 41 44 32 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 39 29 27 Impaired operation related offences 185 155 136 Total Criminal Code Traffic 224 184 163

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 21 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 2 - Oromocto Inspector Mike O’Malley

It has been another busy year for the RCMP members and employees working in your communities. On behalf of District 2, it is my pleasure to present a review of the results we have achieved towards our local policing priorities, as we continue to build on our success, and contribute to the goal of making New Brunswick the safest province in Canada.

Our Priorities Improve Public Safety on District 2 Highways Over the past year, more than 450 Drug Enforcement and Drug Education checkpoint operations were conducted In 2010-2011, we surpassed the number of search warrants executed in the in all communities. Nearly 420 tickets for area compared to previous years, thanks to the efforts of many members. These seatbelt infractions were issued, and a warrants succeeded in preventing large quantities of drugs from circulating December 2010 survey revealed a seatbelt in our communities, and resulted in more than 100 drug trafficking and compliance rate of 92.6% in our area. In production charges. On the prevention side, our employees provided 25 drug addition, nearly 150 impaired drivers were awareness presentations to students and their parents in schools throughout stopped from driving. Moving beyond the area. our primary roads and highways, we also patrolled the trails using all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles, and conducted boat patrols. In addition to our enforcement Reduce Property Crime, in Particular Vandalism and Break efforts, we have continued working to raise awareness about the serious risks and Enters of impaired driving and not wearing a seatbelt. Reducing the number of people victimized by property crime remains one of our policing priorities. Though our region did see a slight increase in break and enters, which rose from 258 to 289, investigators were able to successfully The Year Ahead solve a large percentage of these crimes. We also focused on providing the Our priorities for the year ahead were public with information to help them protect themselves from becoming set in consultation with the Community victims of crime by locking their doors to prevent crimes of opportunity, and Council Policing Committee (CCPC), which encouraging people to report any suspicious activity to police. is comprised of mayors, councillors, Local Service District Representatives, and District 2 RCMP members. As always, Youth at Risk Engagement we will continue our efforts to reduce We have continued our efforts to help divert young people away from crime throughout our district through a leading lives of crime. Over the past year, we have implemented a new Risk combination of enforcement, directed Screening Tool to help us identify those youth who are at a greater risk of patrols, and crime prevention initiatives. becoming involved in criminal activity. Working with our community partners Another objective will be to develop a communications strategy to help share and existing programs, these young people are being directed to services our successes and information about our efforts to help make our communities and programs that can provide guidance and help them resolve the issues safe and secure places to live. We will also focus on community engagement, influencing their decisions and behaviours. working closely with our partners and the public to help resolve crime problems in our area. Substance abuse education will also be a priority, as this continues to be a driver of criminal activity. Together with the CCPC and other stakeholders, we will develop and implement awareness sessions targeting those at greatest risk. We look forward to continuing to provide quality policing services, and making our communities even safer places to live.

22 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 2 - Oromocto Criminal Activity - District 2 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 1 1 0 Offences related to death 1 1 0 • Chipman • Minto Robbery 5 7 3 • Gagetown • New Maryland Sexual assaults 35 69 45 • Keswick • Oromocto Other sexual offences 19 16 17 • McAdam • Stanley Assault 535 517 508 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 4 5 5 Extortion 1 0 0 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 107 123 95 Uttering threats 222 219 166 Total 930 958 839 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 320 258 289 Theft of motor vehicle 106 91 120 Theft over $5000 17 13 11 Theft equal or under $5000 590 479 602 Possession of property obtained by crime 36 44 34 Fraud 91 86 100 Arson 60 81 71 Mischief 784 758 817 Total 2004 1810 2044 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 50 59 61 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 30 48 39 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 5 7 6 Peace disturbance related offences 502 399 526 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 134 135 185 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 3 4 3 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 0 3 0 Other Criminal Code 15 16 9 Total 739 671 829 Total Criminal Code 3673 3439 3712 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 52 36 58 Drug Enforcement - Possession 64 79 69 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 58 67 55 Drug Enforcement - Other 17 4 0 Customs and Excise Act 23 24 17 Youth Criminal Justice Act 26 28 47 Federal - General 28 28 30 Total Federal 268 266 276 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 135 126 94 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 3077 2748 1843 Total Provincial Statutes 3212 2874 1937 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 4 6 7 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 167 172 191 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 1 0 0 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 20 15 18 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 746 726 678 Total Traffic Collisions 938 919 894 Provincial traffic enforcement 1071 980 946 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 37 47 49 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 57 64 72 Impaired operation related offences 232 373 359 Total Criminal Code Traffic 289 437 431

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 23 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 3 - Kennebecasis Inspector John Warr

On behalf of District 3 Kennebecasis employees, I am pleased to be able to share with you the results of our efforts in 2010-2011. This past year brought with it many challenges, but our employees have worked tremendously hard to deliver some very impressive results. Following extensive consultations with our communities, we have developed a strategic plan focusing on three main priorities: reducing the abuse of drugs, improving road safety, and crime reduction.

Our Priorities Crime Reduction Recognizing that property crime continues Reducing the Abuse of Drugs to be a serious concern in our communities, Our strategy to help reduce the abuse of drugs is three-pronged, consisting we set the very ambitious goal of reducing of education, early intervention with at-risk youth, and enforcement efforts. property crime by 15% in 2010-2011. By Over the past year, Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) presentations on focusing strategically on the small number the dangers of drug abuse were given at 13 schools throughout our region, of criminals committing the most crime and we continued to champion a Restorative Justice approach for youth, in our communities, conducting curfew referring them to appropriate community organizations, both to hold them checks on offenders released on conditions accountable for their actions and to reduce their risk of reoffending. In terms or parole, and conducting preventive patrols of enforcement, a concerted effort to increase our intelligence gathering in crime hot spots identified by our crime analyst, we made great strides capabilities has enabled us to triple the number of criminal charges brought towards reaching our goal. Property crime rates have dropped by 6% in the against drug traffickers in our region over the past year. past year, which translates into 74 fewer break and enters, acts of mischief, thefts, frauds, and arsons.

Road Safety In an effort to reduce serious injuries and The Year Ahead fatalities from collisions, over the past The input of our community partners in the year we have focused on seatbelt use, development of our priorities ensures our impaired and aggressive driving. We set policing program is truly responsive to our ambitious enforcement targets, which we communities. In March 2011, we met with surpassed by issuing 5876 traffic charges representatives from area Local Service and warnings in our area. We also made a Districts, Mayors, and councillors to discuss concerted effort to communicate the risks the past year’s results and to develop our of failure to wear a seatbelt by delivering priorities for the next year. It was agreed numerous school presentations and issuing frequent news releases about the that we would continue our efforts to factors contributing to collisions, injuries, and fatalities in our region. reduce property crime, to target drug traffickers and impaired drivers, and to develop early intervention initiatives for youth that are at high risk of becoming involved in crime. We continuously examine our performance and look for ways to improve our services. Our goal is to deliver not just a good service but an excellent one. Through the implementation of evidence-based strategies and the continued hard work of our employees, we will continue to keep District 3 one of the safest places to live in New Brunswick.

24 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 3 - Kennebecasis Criminal Activity - District 3 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 1 0 Offences related to death 2 0 3 • Grand Bay-Westfield Robbery 0 2 1 • Hampton Sexual assaults 29 29 20 • Sussex Other sexual offences 6 3 3 Assault 270 303 301 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 1 0 2 Extortion 0 1 0 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 67 60 58 Uttering threats 112 103 84 Total 487 502 472 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 233 191 210 Theft of motor vehicle 56 61 62 Theft over $5000 10 15 9 Theft equal or under $5000 438 399 405 Possession of property obtained by crime 26 23 24 Fraud 80 82 54 Arson 30 18 14 Mischief 439 524 461 Total 1312 1313 1239 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 20 35 24 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 98 23 27 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 1 2 2 Peace disturbance related offences 198 202 195 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 100 119 87 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 0 0 5 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 0 0 0 Other Criminal Code 8 9 8 Total 425 390 348 Total Criminal Code 2224 2205 2059 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 16 19 37 Drug Enforcement - Possession 58 52 56 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 23 19 41 Drug Enforcement - Other 0 0 1 Customs and Excise Act 18 3 1 Youth Criminal Justice Act 40 43 55 Federal - General 13 17 24 Total Federal 168 153 215 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 134 134 75 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 1570 1588 933 Total Provincial Statutes 1704 1722 1008 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 7 4 8 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 142 172 143 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 0 1 0 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 11 15 13 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 674 759 703 Total Traffic Collisions 834 951 867 Provincial traffic enforcement 2093 1067 2494 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 37 48 147 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 28 28 37 Impaired operation related offences 212 207 136 Total Criminal Code Traffic 240 235 173

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 25 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 4 - South East Inspector Tom Critchlow

Over the past year, the RCMP in District 4 has worked hard to enhance our effectiveness by turning challenges into opportunities for innova- tion and collaboration with our partners and the public. It was a busy year in District 4, and our members once again proved their dedication and commitment as they investigated, and ultimately solved, major crimes including two homicides and one attempted murder. In addition, our crime reduction strategies continued to prove successful, and we have made significant progress on the priorities laid out in our Annual Performance Plan: visibility, crime reduction, drug abuse, and traffic.

Our Priorities Safer Roads Safe roadways are integral to the overall Visibility and Property Crime Reduction safety of our region. In 2010, District 4’s As part of our commitment to maintaining high police visibility, members Dedicated Traffic Unit participated in a conducted nearly 200 foot patrols throughout District 4 in 2010-2011. pilot project with RCMP Districts 5 and These efforts, coupled with our crime reduction strategies, have enabled 11, forming a cohesive team focused on us to successfully arrest 41 of the most active offenders in the region. reducing fatal and serious injury collisions, Crime reduction and prevention efforts focus on those offenders currently with an emphasis placed on aggressive committing the most crimes in our communities, while also aiming to divert and impaired driving, along with seatbelt at-risk youth away from the criminal justice system. For example, in Sackville, use. This initiative resulted in 82 impaired a rash of thefts from vehicles was successfully solved with the arrest of three driving charges, 1292 speeding tickets, people under the age of 18. These youths were diverted through a Restorative and 325 occupant restraint tickets. Justice forum, wherein community members assisted in determining an appropriate restitution process. Fifteen such Restorative Justice forums have been conducted in District 4 over the past year. The Year Ahead Due to the success of the integrated traffic In addition, each school in District 4 was again assigned a police officer liaison. pilot project in the Southeast region, the Together with our Community Program Officer, these officers have been upcoming year will see the introduction actively involved in school activities, including school “lock down” exercises of an independent, provincial traffic unit and School Action for Emergencies (SAFE) plans, and have conducted more focused solely on highway safety and than 150 education and awareness presentations about subjects such as drugs interdiction. We will also continue to focus and impaired driving. on early intervention for at-risk young people, including use of a risk-screening tool to better determine the level of risk Reducing the Abuse of Drugs for each individual, in order to identify In April 2010, District 4 formed a Street Crime Unit comprised of two regular which programs are most suited to reduce their likelihood of reoffending. members from the Shediac and Sackville detachments to focus on dismantling marijuana grow operations and to deter drug trafficking. This team executed 20 residential drug search warrants and dismantled 12 grow operations Inspector Marlene Snowman became the Officer in Charge of Codiac Regional RCMP in May 2011. contributing to more than 125 drug charges in the past year. Additionally, Inspector Tom Critchlow succeeds her as District Commander. more than 25 drug presentations were delivered to schools and community groups, and six five-week Positive Choices sessions were delivered within the district. Positive Choices is a five-week program aimed at giving young people the tools they need to make healthy and positive decisions.

26 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 4 - South East Criminal Activity - District 4 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 4 1 Offences related to death 4 4 2 • Cap-Pelé • Sackville Robbery 4 2 10 • Memramcook • Shediac Sexual assaults 24 20 27 • Port Elgin Other sexual offences 8 8 10 Assault 244 282 277 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 4 3 1 Extortion 0 1 0 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 42 44 51 Uttering threats 91 135 95 Total 421 503 474 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 195 143 177 Theft of motor vehicle 78 71 89 Theft over $5000 13 16 10 Theft equal or under $5000 363 325 408 Possession of property obtained by crime 24 27 17 Fraud 95 71 59 Arson 24 25 38 Mischief 353 340 384 Total 1145 1018 1182 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 22 18 25 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 42 26 40 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 2 5 2 Peace disturbance related offences 206 228 205 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 109 116 136 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 5 3 5 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 2 0 3 Other Criminal Code 6 5 15 Total 394 401 431 Total Criminal Code 1960 1922 2087 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 19 30 34 Drug Enforcement - Possession 40 59 90 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 34 55 100 Drug Enforcement - Other 0 4 0 Customs and Excise Act 9 10 6 Youth Criminal Justice Act 11 10 14 Federal - General 15 20 32 Total Federal 128 188 276 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 63 57 69 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 833 1318 2075 Total Provincial Statutes 896 1375 2144 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 8 4 5 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 119 109 104 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 0 1 0 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 5 10 8 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 402 444 429 Total Traffic Collisions 534 568 546 Provincial traffic enforcement 528 776 1079 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 37 43 44 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 33 38 31 Impaired operation related offences 187 219 147 Total Criminal Code Traffic 220 257 178

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 27 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 5 - Kent Inspector Michel Saurette

As the District Commander of District 5 Kent, it is my pleasure to present to you our 2010-2011 Year in Review. Despite a year marked by several challenges, the dedication and resilience of all RCMP employees permitted us to forge ahead and again achieve, and in many cases surpass, all goals and objectives that had been set at the start of the year. As in previous years, none of our successes would have been possible without the support of the public and our community partners.

Our Priorities Road Safety In 2009-2010, the district took an even Crime Reduction more direct approach in its fight against Building on the previous year’s reduction of 15% in property crime and 11% drinking and driving, by creating a Chronic in theft under $5,000, this year saw a further 3% decrease in property crime Repeat Impaired Driver List. Using an offences and a 4% decrease in crimes against persons, a three-year low for this approach similar to our crime reduction type of offence. strategy, we also piloted a new initiative aimed at reducing impaired driving in our region. With the goal of making our roads Youth the safest in New Brunswick and Canada, Once again, our Community Program Officer we also continued working to proactively remind citizens that seatbelts save has been instrumental in continuing to lives, both through enforcement and education initiatives. build partnerships throughout our region. In 2010, 15 people attended a three-day Restorative Justice Workshop, and received The Year Ahead professional training to become Community Looking forward, we are continually expanding crime reduction initiatives Justice Forum Facilitators. These facilitators throughout the district by implementing new training for all frontline officers, will prove critical to helping us to continue while enhancing our strategic operational focus on the offenders committing finding innovative and community-based the most crimes in our communities. We will also continue to focus on creating ways to hold young people accountable for criminal behaviours, ultimately the safest roadways in Canada by deterring impaired driving and enforcing diverting them from leading lives of crime through early intervention. seatbelt use. In addition, we will continue working to reduce the damage Additionally, our employees delivered more than 130 presentations on drug caused by illegal marijuana grow operations in our area. Our goal is to help abuse prevention and other topics throughout the school year to students, create a community where all residents feel safe and secure, and to continue parents, seniors and various community groups within our area. School Action working with our partners and the public to make New Brunswick the safest for Emergencies (SAFE) plans were also completed for the 21 schools in our province in Canada. area, to ensure police and frontline workers are prepared to respond efficiently and effectively in the case of serious incidents at our schools.

28 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 5 - Kent Criminal Activity - District 5 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP Offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 0 0 Offences related to death 3 1 0 • Baie-Sainte-Anne • Richibucto Robbery 9 1 0 • Bouctouche • Rogersville Sexual assaults 37 44 52 • Elsipogtog Other sexual offences 8 6 4 Assault 466 434 428 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 8 12 4 Extortion 1 0 1 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 76 84 69 Uttering threats 150 145 136 Total 758 727 694 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 271 217 259 Theft of motor vehicle 107 92 84 Theft over $5000 6 11 10 Theft equal or under $5000 325 289 283 Possession of property obtained by crime 41 30 23 Fraud 64 75 62 Arson 44 35 56 Mischief 474 383 322 Total 1332 1132 1099 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 26 34 13 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 42 25 24 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 3 1 3 Peace disturbance related offences 461 410 339 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 187 169 156 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 1 1 7 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 1 0 1 Other Criminal Code 11 11 11 Total 732 651 554 Total Criminal Code 2822 2510 2347 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 11 31 39 Drug Enforcement - Possession 64 48 45 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 55 47 44 Drug Enforcement - Other 0 1 2 Customs and Excise Act 9 2 1 Youth Criminal Justice Act 4 4 7 Federal - General 18 16 12 Total Federal 161 149 150 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 94 65 42 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 1717 2095 1925 Total Provincial Statutes 1811 2160 1967 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 6 3 7 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 103 101 115 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 0 0 0 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 11 6 9 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 394 387 385 Total Traffic Collisions 514 497 516 Provincial traffic enforcement 637 582 465 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 30 37 36 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 55 57 40 Impaired operation related offences 242 221 177 Total Criminal Code Traffic 297 278 217

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 29 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 6 - Miramichi Staff Sergeant Greg Grant

On behalf of District 6 Miramichi RCMP, I am pleased to present a review of the progress made on our policing priorities in 2010-2011. Over the past year, we have built on our past successes, and continued to make the communities of Blackville, Sunny Corner, Doaktown, Upper Miramichi and surrounding areas safe and secure places to live. Our progressive, intelligence-led approach to policing has continued to achieve excellent results in reducing property crime, reducing the abuse of drugs, and increasing safety on our roadways.

Our Priorities Safety on our Roadways People not wearing seatbelts and impaired driving continue to be the biggest Reducing Property Crime contributing factors to the number of fatalities and serious injuries on roadways Reducing property crime complaints, including theft, vandalism and break in our communities. As such, one of our key priorities was to reduce serious and enters continued to be our number one priority in 2010-2011. Our crime injuries or deaths by increasing the seatbelt use rate among citizens in our analyst conducted ongoing reviews of the trends and occurrences taking area, and working to decrease impaired driving rates through a combination place in the district, enabling us to focus on those few offenders committing of enforcement and education. In addition to ongoing enforcement initiatives, the most crimes in our area, and leading to the arrest of more than 30 active frontline members and our Community Program Officer also delivered seatbelt criminals. This method of proactive policing enabled us to once again reduce safety and impaired driving educational programs to various community property crime rates this year, by 8%, for a total reduction of 21% over the past groups, including local schools and senior citizens’ groups. two years.

The Year Ahead Reduce the Abuse of Drugs It is our hope that the work we have Drug enforcement and education efforts done to reduce property crime, drug also contributed to reducing property trafficking and abuse, and dangerous crimes, many of which are committed driving practices has contributed by drug users seeking to fund their to increased feelings of safety in drug purchases. Over the course of the the communities we serve. As we past year, our members executed 19 move forward, we will continue to search warrants, dismantling several keep a close eye on those offenders marijuana production operations in committing the most crimes in our District 6, and reducing the amount region, seeking innovative ways to of illegal drugs circulating in our reduce all crime. We will also continue communities. In addition, several of our frontline police officers and our to work closely with community and other law enforcement partners to reduce Community Program Officer offered more than 30 educational presentations the abuse of drugs, and deter dangerous driving practices. All of our efforts to young people in our communities about the dangers of drug use and abuse. have the ultimate goal of making our communities safe and secure places to live, contributing to the RCMP in New Brunswick’s goal of becoming the safest Canadian province.

30 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 6 - Miramichi Criminal Activity - District 6 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 0 1 Offences related to death 0 0 1 • Blackville Robbery 2 1 0 • Doaktown Sexual assaults 13 12 10 • Sunny Corner Other sexual offences 2 4 1 Assault 139 98 107 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 0 0 2 Extortion 0 0 1 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 20 31 24 Uttering threats 52 64 64 Total 228 210 211 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 76 44 53 Theft of motor vehicle 22 18 12 Theft over $5000 9 3 3 Theft equal or under $5000 90 76 86 Possession of property obtained by crime 10 5 5 Fraud 15 21 24 Arson 8 20 13 Mischief 184 170 132 Total 414 357 328 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 13 7 3 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 4 8 7 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 1 1 0 Peace disturbance related offences 22 37 54 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 41 40 55 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 2 0 3 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 2 0 0 Other Criminal Code 6 3 3 Total 91 96 125 Total Criminal Code 733 663 664 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 12 22 16 Drug Enforcement - Possession 8 9 11 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 23 42 21 Drug Enforcement - Other 0 0 0 Customs and Excise Act 2 4 3 Youth Criminal Justice Act 5 3 0 Federal - General 4 12 9 Total Federal 54 92 60 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 17 7 1 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 537 620 508 Total Provincial Statutes 554 627 509 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 2 1 4 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 19 32 24 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 0 0 2 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 7 3 4 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 221 181 160 Total Traffic Collisions 249 217 194 Provincial traffic enforcement 145 187 189 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 4 14 19 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 24 15 12 Impaired operation related offences 53 77 54 Total Criminal Code Traffic 77 92 66

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 31 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 7 - Carleton-York Staff Sergeant Mitch MacMillan

On behalf of District 7 Carleton-York RCMP, I am pleased to present the following review of the excellent work being done in our region. Partnership has remained a critical part of our approach to making our communities safer, and our integration with the Woodstock Police Force has enabled us to reach beyond our borders and assist in crime reduction throughout Carleton and York Counties.

Our members continue to be very involved in their communities by contributing several hundred hours each year of volunteer time to various causes, including coaching swimming, martial arts, hockey, soccer, and cadets, as well as participating in church leadership boards and local school advisory committees. We look forward to continuing to work together to make Carleton-York the safest district in the safest province in Canada.

Our Priorities Roadway Safety In an effort to make our roadways safer, our Crime Reduction district once again adopted a two-pronged Working closely with the Woodstock Police Force, we have had much success approach involving both enforcement and in our crime reduction efforts over the past year. Members from both police education. In the past year, more than 100 forces worked in collaboration on major files and in the execution of search impaired drivers in our region were charged, warrants, traffic stops, and on bed-checks on criminals who are on probation marking a significant increase over the with curfews and conditions. Sharing intelligence and information has previous year. We also continued working allowed us to be more successful in our efforts to solve crime and conduct to raise awareness about the importance of search warrants, focusing on those offenders causing the most serious harm wearing a seatbelt. Surveys have indicated to our communities, whether by committing property crimes or creating and that our region enjoys 94% seatbelt compliance, which is one of the highest feeding serious addictions by trafficking drugs. in New Brunswick. Nevertheless, even one serious injury or fatality that could have been prevented by wearing a seatbelt is too many, and our efforts to encourage safe driving practices are ongoing. Youth Over the past year, we implemented the most recent phase of our crime reduction The Year Ahead strategy, which involves taking a proactive In 2011-2012, we will continue to engage community stakeholders through approach and attempting to prevent future our Carleton-York Police Community Liaison Committee, comprised of the crime by focusing efforts on youth at risk. Carleton-York RCMP management team and delegates from 17 councils and Through community partnerships, and with Local Service Districts. We will continue to partner with other mandated the help of a new risk assessment tool, we agencies on our youth objective, and we will also be evaluating our progress are working to provide young people at risk on this objective by observing recidivism rates in the next year. We believe with the necessary support and guidance to that by identifying the root causes of crime, and providing assistance through help steer them away from criminal activities. partner agencies, we will prevent some young people from becoming prolific offenders or engaging in criminal activity. We will also continue to target prolific offenders and drug dealers in our communities in order to further reduce and prevent crime.

32 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 7 - Carleton-York Criminal Activity - District 7 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 0 0 • Florenceville - Bristol Offences related to death 3 0 0 Robbery 0 1 1 • Hartland Sexual assaults 23 10 16 • Nackawic Other sexual offences 8 3 6 • Woodstock Assault 161 199 169 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 0 1 1 Extortion 0 0 0 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 62 34 48 Uttering threats 76 66 75 Total 333 314 316 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 117 120 145 Theft of motor vehicle 31 49 80 Theft over $5000 7 11 3 Theft equal or under $5000 183 172 239 Possession of property obtained by crime 10 13 13 Fraud 34 25 32 Arson 22 18 19 Mischief 274 275 263 Total 678 683 794 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 18 25 18 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 12 12 6 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 2 4 1 Peace disturbance related offences 56 69 92 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 58 75 89 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 0 1 1 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 0 0 0 Other Criminal Code 6 11 10 Total 152 197 217 Total Criminal Code 1163 1194 1327 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 16 22 23 Drug Enforcement - Possession 42 76 72 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 20 42 28 Drug Enforcement - Other 2 2 0 Customs and Excise Act 19 16 10 Youth Criminal Justice Act 6 12 22 Federal - General 12 7 10 Total Federal 117 177 165 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 102 73 51 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 748 790 620 Total Provincial Statutes 850 863 671 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 3 3 7 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 75 26 34 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 2 1 2 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 7 7 10 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 351 355 388 Total Traffic Collisions 438 392 441 Provincial traffic enforcement 574 503 387 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 41 24 44 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 25 32 35 Impaired operation related offences 145 118 177 Total Criminal Code Traffic 170 150 212

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 33 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 8 - Acadian Peninsula Inspector Marc Bertrand

The year 2010-2011 was a busy one for the Acadian Peninsula RCMP. We successfully met the three objectives we had established for 2010- 2011: road safety, the fight against organized crime and crime reduction through work by our members in the schools and the community. These priorities, established in consultation with the populace, matched those of the RCMP for all of New Brunswick.

Our Priorities Organized Crime It is important to make sure our region remains unattractive to organized Youth crime. Though organized crime is often associated with drug trafficking, its Our members made more than 225 members are profit-oriented and often participate in other criminal activities presentations in schools or the community in our communities, such as the illicit tobacco and arms trade, prostitution, and on important topics such as drugs and fraud. Street crime unit members executed 42 search warrants in 2010-2011, alcohol, bicycle and road safety, bullying seizing drugs and recovering stolen goods. and cyberbullying, Internet security, violence and the law. They also served on a number of committees working The RCMP in the Community against violence and for the well-being In 2010, several members of our district and safety of our young people. Our were recognized for their work in the young people also benefited from a new community. New Brunswick’s Minister program called Intersection, whose goal is to reduce arrest and reoffending of Public Safety and Solicitor General rates among teenagers between the ages of 13 and 16. Over the next three presented our community program years, 150 young people will benefit from this program offered by the Acadian officer with a certificate of recognition Peninsula Volunteer Centre, in partnership with the community and the for his work in crime prevention and two RCMP. Our region was also the focus of a study conducted by New Brunswick’s of our officers with certificates for their ombudsman on the work being done to keep youth out of prison. work in promoting awareness, education, and crime prevention through a weekly live radio program. Road Safety The members of the traffic unit took part in school prevention activities for Over the course of the past year, our members also worked in partnership an accident-free graduation. They also organized a number of checkpoint with hospitals and government institutions to develop a memorandum of operations to check motorists’ papers with a view to preventing traffic understanding with the goal of providing better service to patients with accidents. mental health problems.

Crime Reduction The Year Ahead In 2010-2011, there was a decrease in the number of break-and-enters, which In the coming year, we will focus our efforts on road safety and crime reduction, dropped from 251 last year to 209 this year, and an increase in the number of as well as on the distribution of images depicting children being sexually search warrants. We attribute this success to local residents who provided over exploited, domestic violence, and an increased presence in our 25 schools. 1,140 tips, leading to arrests and searches. The community plays a huge role in crime reduction, and it is by working together that we can make our region In May 2011, former District Commander Inspector Roch Fortin retired. Inspector Marc Bertrand the safest in the province. succeeds him as District Commander.

34 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 8 - Acadian Peninsula Criminal Activity - District 8 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 1 1 • Caraquet • Shippagan Offences related to death 3 1 1 Robbery 2 4 2 • Lamèque • Tracadie-Sheila Sexual assaults 43 39 41 • Neguac • Esgenoôpetitj (Burnt Church) Other sexual offences 16 36 21 Assault 459 520 513 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 2 5 2 Extortion 2 0 0 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 144 128 148 Uttering threats 212 268 283 Total 883 1002 1012 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 248 241 193 Theft of motor vehicle 84 91 100 Theft over $5000 13 11 14 Theft equal or under $5000 378 302 341 Possession of property obtained by crime 27 34 23 Fraud 83 53 72 Arson 21 26 21 Mischief 394 444 441 Total 1248 1202 1205 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 31 29 31 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 79 79 65 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 7 3 7 Peace disturbance related offences 415 330 339 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 239 351 351 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 1 4 8 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 3 0 0 Other Criminal Code 17 13 18 Total 792 809 819 Total Criminal Code 2923 3013 3036 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 10 12 8 Drug Enforcement - Possession 46 42 65 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 39 46 37 Drug Enforcement - Other 1 8 1 Customs and Excise Act 31 18 15 Youth Criminal Justice Act 12 33 19 Federal - General 11 24 24 Total Federal 150 183 169 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 42 46 43 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 1556 1638 966 Total Provincial Statutes 1598 1684 1009 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 8 8 7 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 175 211 175 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 1 1 0 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 16 9 14 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 444 505 443 Total Traffic Collisions 644 734 639 Provincial traffic enforcement 948 914 918 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 154 57 138 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 120 115 106 Impaired operation related offences 343 328 381 Total Criminal Code Traffic 463 443 487

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 35 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 9 - Restigouche-Chaleur Inspector Marc Landry

Over the course of the 2010-2011 year, the RCMP District 9 Restigouche-Chaleur has continued to make progress on a number of fronts. More specifically, successes were achieved on priorities such as organized crime, crime reduction, and youth.

Our Priorities Crime Reduction The emphasis on crime reduction initiatives has provided impressive all around Organized Crime results for District 9 in 2010-2011, with a 2% decrease in property crime since In consultation with our communities, fighting last year. Officers from the Restigouche-Chaleur region have been able to organized crime was deemed to be a strategic achieve a number of successes by arresting and charging a number of prolific priority for District 9, and this is an area where offenders, while enhancing or implementing a number of initiatives aimed at significant successes were achieved. The increasing compliance with existing court-imposed conditions on offenders. district has enhanced its focus on its ability to We have also increased our visibility in areas known to attract higher levels of gather intelligence, and take steps to disrupt crime, and we continue to work closely with our crime analyst to identify and those involved with organized crime. In 2010- respond to new and developing crime trends within the region. 2011, the district executed 49 search warrants for drug trafficking and production offences, representing an increase of 90%. These produced some noteworthy seizures of pills, methamphetamine and marijuana plants in 2010. A number of projects The Year Ahead targeting the production of marijuana resulted in more than 10,000 marijuana For 2011-2012, District 9 looks forward to continuing to work closely with our plants being seized, and one investigation with over 4,200 methamphetamine communities, as we strive to reduce crime rates and make New Brunswick the pills seized. safest province in the country. District 9 is proud of the successes achieved in the past year, and we believe we can sustain and improve upon these positive results. Public consultations in setting district priorities, improving Youth our intelligence gathering and sharing processes, and strategically deploying District 9 has continued its efforts to educate resources to focus on people, places, or things known to cause or attract crime and increase awareness by working with will all contribute to safer communities. Support from our communities, community stakeholders in providing a wide stakeholders, and the dedication of our employees are all significant factors in range of services to our youth. In addition to our past and future successes. Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), other programs offered included Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth (PARTY), Cyber Bullying, Positive Choices, and others. District 9 employees dedicated a lot of time to working and interacting with youth through programs, sports, and social events. In 2010-2011 District 9 implemented a multi-agency youth intervention and diversion committee that will focus on youth at risk, including the introduction of a risk screening tool which will assist officers in referring youth to appropriate services.

36 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 9 - Restigouche-Chaleur Criminal Activity - District 9 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 0 0 • Belledune • Dalhousie Offences related to death 2 0 4 Robbery 8 3 3 • Bathurst • Saint-Quentin Sexual assaults 40 23 26 • Campbellton Other sexual offences 11 11 3 Assault 268 291 309 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 1 2 5 Extortion 1 0 2 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 91 84 109 Uttering threats 147 129 162 Total 569 543 623 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 183 205 242 Theft of motor vehicle 114 111 115 Theft over $5000 20 20 16 Theft equal or under $5000 339 349 358 Possession of property obtained by crime 25 20 27 Fraud 78 59 68 Arson 24 31 24 Mischief 375 408 328 Total 1158 1203 1178 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 44 51 35 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 59 65 59 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 4 0 2 Peace disturbance related offences 236 341 338 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 244 221 207 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 5 1 1 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 3 5 1 Other Criminal Code 19 10 15 Total 614 694 658 Total Criminal Code 2341 2440 2459 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 18 19 30 Drug Enforcement - Possession 81 64 86 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 41 56 68 Drug Enforcement - Other 1 0 0 Customs and Excise Act 19 14 13 Youth Criminal Justice Act 21 17 9 Federal - General 15 12 20 Total Federal 196 182 226 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 24 24 23 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 1074 1223 794 Total Provincial Statutes 1098 1247 817 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 4 10 7 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 87 117 91 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 1 3 1 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 19 24 15 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 459 448 394 Total Traffic Collisions 570 602 508 Provincial traffic enforcement 696 737 1022 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 75 92 58 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 58 90 70 Impaired operation related offences 204 238 180 Total Criminal Code Traffic 262 328 250

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 37 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 10 - Madawaska-Victoria Staff Sergeant Joe Themens

On behalf of the Madawaska-Victoria RCMP, I am very pleased to present our Year in Review for 2010-2011. Building on partnerships and working with community organizations and partners enabled us to achieve a number of successes over the past year. We remain committed to helping reduce and prevent crime by focusing on communication, integration, education, and enforcement.

Our Priorities Engaging Youth at Risk and Aboriginal Policing This year, several District 10 employees, Crime Reduction including our Community Program Officer During the past year, our members and employees have conducted strategic (CPO) received training that will assist them operations including curfew checks, search warrants, check stops in high crime in taking on an increased role in the process of areas, and crime analysis in an effort to reduce crime. Throughout the year, obtaining referrals to community intervention our Community Program Officer (CPO) delivered more than 50 drug awareness and diversion programs for young people at risk presentations to a wide variety of audiences including students, adults, and of becoming criminal offenders. The RCMP’s community and corporate groups in an effort to educate and minimize the long term goal is to work with our partners to abuse of drugs. More than 1,000 people participated in the presentations. divert these young people away from leading lives of crime. This approach will also be championed as we work to enhance and build better and stronger relationships with the Aboriginal community Safety on our Roadways and Aboriginal youth at risk. In April 2010, the District 10 Dedicated Traffic Unit and the Grand Falls Roving Traffic Unit (RTU) became integrated as part of a The Year Ahead pilot project. The new unit has proven very The Madawaska-Victoria RCMP is committed to helping New Brunswick successful, issuing more than 1250 speeding become the safest province in Canada, and we will continue to focus on tickets and 133 seatbelt violation tickets and reducing and preventing crime, enforcing traffic laws, and conducting warnings in the past year, as well as laying education and awareness presentations. But we know that we cannot more than 80 charges of impaired driving. In achieve our goal alone, and as such, we will continue to work closely with our addition, the unit assisted with 12 contraband community partners and members of the public. Everyone has a role to play, tobacco seizures, and intercepted significant amounts of illegal drugs including and we encourage all community leaders and concerned citizens to reach out marijuana, hashish, and methamphetamine. to us and share ideas about how we can continue to build on our successes, and make our communities and roadways safer for all.

Organized Crime District 10 continued working to disrupt and dismantle organized crime groups in partnership with the Edmundston and Grand Falls Police Forces. Over the past year, 21 search warrants were executed, targeting drug traffickers, marijuana grow operations, and synthetic drugs. In August and September of 2010, more than 6,000 marijuana plants were seized throughout the district, enough to produce up to 3 million marijuana joints. These efforts resulted in numerous criminal charges for possession, trafficking, and cultivation.

38 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 10 - Madawaska-Victoria Criminal Activity - District 10 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 0 1 • Clair • Rivière-Verte Offences related to death 1 3 1 Robbery 1 3 2 • Grand Falls • Saint-Léonard Sexual assaults 37 21 13 • Perth-Andover • Tobique Other sexual offences 15 8 10 • Plaster Rock Assault 278 320 295 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 3 3 2 Extortion 0 0 0 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 56 58 61 Uttering threats 127 115 114 Total 518 531 499 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 226 191 203 Theft of motor vehicle 57 100 64 Theft over $5000 9 9 11 Theft equal or under $5000 184 235 160 Possession of property obtained by crime 16 28 16 Fraud 48 45 36 Arson 4 21 14 Mischief 268 307 283 Total 812 936 787 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 31 34 47 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 23 23 24 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 1 1 2 Peace disturbance related offences 157 136 134 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 107 109 87 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 3 3 1 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 3 5 1 Other Criminal Code 8 13 11 Total 333 324 307 Total Criminal Code 1663 1791 1593 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 12 38 38 Drug Enforcement - Possession 47 59 45 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 19 57 44 Drug Enforcement - Other 3 6 7 Customs and Excise Act 64 85 36 Youth Criminal Justice Act 22 23 16 Federal - General 15 17 24 Total Federal 182 285 210 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 20 7 17 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 920 999 1188 Total Provincial Statutes 940 1006 1205 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 4 3 8 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 90 85 93 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 2 1 0 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 11 3 8 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 398 439 422 Total Traffic Collisions 505 531 531 Provincial traffic enforcement 382 453 438 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 17 27 15 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 48 42 24 Impaired operation related offences 125 111 109 Total Criminal Code Traffic 173 153 133

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 39 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 11 - Caledonia Staff Sergeant Gerry Belliveau

The District 11 Caledonia RCMP is pleased to present our district’s Year in Review for 2010-2011. This past year, members continued to build on and embrace a collaborative, community-based approach. In consultation with our partners, our district strategically identified three priorities in addition to general duty and community policing. These additional areas of focus - traffic safety, organized crime, and crime reduction - enhanced our efforts to help make New Brunswick the safest province in Canada.

Our Priorities Community Policing Together with our Community Program Traffic Safety Officer, several District 11 police officers were This year, District 11 members embraced a more focused approach, and instrumental in working with our community increased police visibility by strategically identifying problem areas on our partners to deliver educational and awareness roadways. Several Selective Traffic Enforcement Programs (STEP), check points, presentations, aimed primarily at young people. and community education and awareness presentations occurred throughout In addition, we continued to build strong the district over the course of the year. As a result of our efforts, the number of relationships with the communities we serve, tickets issued and charges laid for Motor Vehicle Act infractions nearly doubled and several crime prevention initiatives were in comparison to previous years. put in place throughout the district to assist business owners with identifying crime related trends and protecting themselves from being victimized.

Organized Crime and Crime Reduction Members of our General Investigation Section The Year Ahead (GIS) were proactive in their efforts to identify, RCMP District 11 members remain committed to reducing crime by adhering monitor, and disrupt known local offenders, to an evidence-based and intelligence-led approach to policing. As we which resulted in several drug and stolen move forward, we will encourage greater collaboration with neighbouring property seizures. We also conducted numerous districts within Southeastern New Brunswick. This will increase our ability checks on repeat convicted criminals to ensure to share intelligence for the purpose of solving crime while maximizing the compliance with court probation orders. effectiveness of our resources. We will also continue to work closely with Working closely with our crime analyst, we community partners to help divert young people away from leading lives of focused on intelligence-led initiatives and investigations, and worked to deter crime by referring them to the appropriate organizations and services. Traffic organized criminal activity in our area, laying more than 30 charges of drug enforcement also remains a priority, and we will continue working with the trafficking or production. newly developed Southeast Traffic Unit to enforce, educate, and reduce traffic infractions and unsafe driving practices in our region.

Our goal is to continue working closely with our partners to make our communities safe places to live and work. We would not be able to achieve our goals without the strong support we received from community leaders, organizations, and members of the public. We look forward to continuing to work together to help make our communities and roadways safe for all to enjoy.

40 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships District 11 - Caledonia Criminal Activity - District 11 (RCMP jurisdiction only) 2008 2009 2010 RCMP offices: Crimes Against Persons Homicide 0 0 1 • Hillsborough Offences related to death 1 3 1 Robbery 4 1 0 • Irishtown Sexual assaults 14 18 10 • Petitcodiac Other sexual offences 3 4 3 • Salisbury Assault 166 172 182 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 3 6 7 Extortion 0 0 0 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 38 45 41 Uttering threats 66 63 42 Total 295 312 287 Crimes Against Property Break and enter 141 88 147 Theft of motor vehicle 72 57 46 Theft over $5000 7 11 14 Theft equal or under $5000 179 155 168 Possession of property obtained by crime 18 13 16 Fraud 46 23 33 Arson 27 20 15 Mischief 258 280 243 Total 748 647 682 Other Criminal Code Offensive weapons 16 13 9 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 14 16 11 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 3 2 3 Peace disturbance related offences 85 90 54 Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 85 84 74 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 1 0 0 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 7 0 0 Other Criminal Code 5 2 7 Total 216 207 158 Total Criminal Code 1259 1166 1127 Federal Drug Enforcement - Production 10 7 18 Drug Enforcement - Possession 64 26 45 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 34 15 15 Drug Enforcement - Other 0 0 0 Customs and Excise Act 53 8 5 Youth Criminal Justice Act 33 38 27 Federal - General 6 15 11 Total Federal 200 109 121 Provincial Statutes Liquor Control 30 13 21 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 1113 1354 2005 Total Provincial Statutes 1143 1367 2026 Traffic Collisions Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 6 5 9 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 90 122 104 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 0 2 0 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 9 10 5 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 454 506 468 Total Traffic Collisions 559 645 586 Provincial traffic enforcement 588 628 720 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 32 15 25 Criminal Code Traffic Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 44 52 51 Impaired operation related offences 177 124 154 Total Criminal Code Traffic 221 176 205

Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. 41 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Division Overview

Criminal Activity - New Brunswick (RCMP JURISDICTION ONLY)

2008 2009 2010 2008 2009 2010 Crimes Against Persons Federal Homicide 1 11 7 Drug Enforcement - Production 203 269 351 Offences related to death 26 21 19 Drug Enforcement - Possession 792 722 866 Robbery 84 83 65 Drug Enforcement - Trafficking 490 561 599 Sexual assaults 380 390 348 Drug Enforcement - Other 28 28 16 Other sexual offences 116 118 92 Customs and Excise Act 325 223 124 Assault 4110 4320 4257 Youth Criminal Justice Act 323 344 391 Kidnapping / Hostage / Abduction / Abandon child 47 59 46 Federal - General 291 282 316 Extortion 8 8 7 Total Federal 2452 2429 2663 Criminal harassment / Intimidation 917 921 948 Provincial Statutes Uttering threats 1771 1777 1716 Liquor Control 861 662 525 Total 7460 7708 7505 Provincial Statutes (911, Mental health, Coroner, Off-road vehicles and other Acts) 15707 17299 16117 Crimes Against Property Total Provincial Statutes 16568 17961 16642 Break and enter 2660 2463 2535 Traffic Collisions Theft of motor vehicle 1001 993 962 Motor vehicles - Fatal collisions 57 51 76 Theft over $5000 163 172 168 Motor vehicles - Injury collisions 1498 1660 1497 Theft equal or under $5000 5404 5284 5496 Off-road vehicles - Fatal collisions 8 11 7 Possession of property obtained by crime 329 353 282 Off-road vehicles - Injury collisions 130 116 113 Fraud 1122 946 907 Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles - Reportable property damage 6216 6628 6584 Arson 315 348 336 Total Collisions 7909 8466 8277 Mischief 5381 5383 5054 Provincial traffic enforcement 9471 8946 11643 Total 16375 15942 15740 Roadside suspensions / Driver’s license examinations and recoveries 626 547 698 Other Criminal Code Criminal Code Traffic Offensive weapons 401 457 356 Dangerous operation / Failure to stop / Driving interdictions / Street racing offences 665 695 639 Resist / Obstruct authority or justice / Public mischief 553 491 415 Impaired operation related offences 2725 2673 2523 Child exploitation related offences (includes under 18 yo) 46 35 42 Total Criminal Code Traffic 3390 3368 3162 Peace disturbance related offences 4257 4199 4343 Source: Pros Occurrence Stats. All data retrieved April 1, 2011 based on actual numbers. Failures / Breaches / Escapes (judicial authority) 2244 2346 2326 Offences against morals (Prostitution, Voyeurism, etc.) 71 54 82 Offences related to criminal organization / Laundering the proceeds of crime 33 28 47 Other Criminal Code 180 160 202 Total 7785 7770 7813 Total Criminal Code 31620 31420 31058

Road Safety Statistics Roadway Fatalities in RCMP Jurisdiction

• In 2010, 80 people were killed in crashes in RCMP jurisdiction in New Brunswick. 1500 • In more than 40% of the fatalities, alcohol and/or drugs were a factor. 1200 • In nearly 44% of the fatalities where a seatbelt was available, the 900 victim was not wearing one. 600 • 18 people killed were involved in a crash where alcohol and/or drugs 300 was a factor and they were not wearing a seatbelt. That’s more than 1/5 of all fatalities. 0

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2010 - 2011 Final Expenditures - RCMP in New Brunswick

Salaries, Operational and Maintenance Costs Capital Funds, Infrastructure, and Construction

Federal and International Operations $21,151,688 Federal and International Operations $324,696 Community, Contract & Aboriginal Policing Community, Contract, and Aboriginal Policing Provincial / Territorial Policing $76,717,228 Provincial / Territorial Policing $2,253,502 Municipal Policing $23,855,109 Municipal Policing $404,829 Aboriginal Policing $2,165,689 Aboriginal Policing $41,170 Program Activity Support $1,416,037 Internal Services $632,390 Internal Services $3,565,433 Total $3,656,587 Total $128,871,184 Grand Total $132,527,770

RCMP Personnel (As of January 1, 2011) Public Service Regular Members Civilian Members RCMP Property Employees Provincial Policing Headquarters 1 District policing 268.5 0 83.5 Detachments, patrol locations & buildings 79 Extended Agreement 100.5 0 0 Residences 99 Provincial Support Services Federal Policing Offices 6 Traffic Services 90 0 0 Communications, storage and other buildings 30 Operational Communication Center 1 33 1 Major Crime Unit 17 0 4 Forensic Identification Section 13 0 2.5 Fleet

General Investigation Section (GIS) 13 0 0 Type Qty Operational Support Services / Criminal 6 1 6 Investigation Branch / Major Case Management Established Vehicles 530 Criminal Intelligence Section/CISC/CISNB/NSIS/RIIU 12 2 8 Surplus to establishment 9 Community Program Officers (CPO) 0 11 0 Specialty Vehicles 2 Commercial Crime Section / Proceeds of Crime 9 0 1 Critical Incident Vehicles 5 Divisional Criminal Analyst Section (DCAS) 0 8 1 Boats 17 Police Dog Service 4 0 0 Snow Vehicles 38 Internet Child Exploitation Unit 3 0 1 ATV 42 Technological Crime Section 2 1 0 Motorcycles 2 Truth Verification Unit 2 0 0 Crime Scene Trailer 1 Custom & Excise - Drugs / Special I 2 0 0 Leased 1 Other (including administrative) 8 2 6 Extended Life Vehicles 7 Total Provincial 551 58 114 Total 654

Municipal Policing 209 1 0.5 Federal Law 138 25 31 First Nation Community Policing (Federal) 20 0 3 Departmental and Divisional Administration 8 3 10 VIP Section / Explosive Disposal (Federal) 2 0 1 Total 928 87 159.5 43 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Division Overview

Municipal Policing Agreement

Police Officers Police Officers Municipal Policing Agreements Incorporated Municipalities District 1 St. Andrews 3 Rural Communities 2 District 2 McAdam 3 Towns 3 Oromocto 14 Villages 53 District 3 Hampton 5 District 4 Cap Pelé 3 First Nation Community Policing Sackville 10 District 5 Elsipogtog 13.5 District 5 Bouctouche 3 Indian Island/Bouctouche 0.5 Richibucto 3 District 10 Tobique 5 District 9 Saint-Quentin 3 Division Youth, Aboriginal and Crime Prevention 1 Campbellton 18 Officer Codiac Regional RCMP 144

Extended Agreements District 1 St. George 2 Blacks Harbour 2 St. Stephen 11 Point Lepreau 2.5 District 2 New Maryland 5 Minto 4 District 3 Sussex 9 Grand Bay-Westfield 6 District 4 Memramcook 5 Shediac 10 District 5 Rogersville 1.5 District 6 Blackville 1.5 District 7 Nackawic 2 Hartland 2 District 8 Shippagan 5 Tracadie-Sheila 9 Caraquet 7 Neguac 3 District 9 Dalhousie 8 Belledune 5

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Who and Where We Police

Police Officers Population Policed Incorporated Municipalities Rural Policing 320,069 (43.84%) Rural Communities 2 Municipal Policing Agreements 137,130 (18.78%) Towns 3 Extended Agreement 55,741 (7.64%) Villages 53 First Nation Community Policing 2,857 (0.39%)

First Nation Community Policing District 5 Elsipogtog 13.5 Population Policed by other Police Departments 214,200 (29.34%) Indian Island/Bouctouche 0.5 Police to Population Ratio 1/662 District 10 Tobique 5 (Based on frontline response including Districts, General Investigation Sections, Street Crime Units, and First Nations Policing) Division Youth, Aboriginal and Crime Prevention 1 Officer

Area Policed 70,340.08 km² (98.6%) Rural Policing (including extended agreements) 69,858.91 km² Municipal Policing Agreements 443.65 km² First Nation Community Policing 37.51 km²

Area Policed by other Police Departments 1,006.13 km2 (1.4%)

New Brunswickers’ Views of RCMP Services 2010 Survey Highlights

90% of New Brunswickers are satisfied with the RCMP's contribution to ensuring safe homes and safe communities for Canadians

97% of New Brunswickers agree that the RCMP’s services are important for Canada

83% of New Brunswickers agree that the RCMP plays a valuable role in preventing and reducing youth involvement in crime

77% of New Brunswickers agree that the RCMP plays a valuable role in contributing to safer and healthier Aboriginal communities

86% of New Brunswickers agree that the RCMP plays a valuable role in reducing organized crime

88% of New Brunswickers agree that RCMP personnel have a visible presence in the community

77% of New Brunswickers agree that RCMP personnel are involved in community activities

82% of New Brunswickers were satisfied with the services received during their contacts with the RCMP

89% of New Brunswickers agree that the RCMP demonstrates professionalism in its work 88% of New Brunswickers agree that the RCMP places emphasis on providing services in the language of choice, English or French

Core Surveys 2010: New Brunswick (J Division) Results http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/surveys-sondages/2010/result-jdiv10-eng.htm

45 Becoming Canada’s Safest Province: Forging Partnerships Civilian Members Celebrate 50 Years of Service

In 2010, the RCMP celebrated the 50th anniversary of Civilian Members (CMs) providing service to the force. In New Brunswick, there are currently 85 Civilian Members working in RCMP detachments and units throughout the province. CMs play crucial roles in specialized, administrative, and technical positions to support the operational activities of our organization. Much of the success of the New Brunswick RCMP’s crime reduction and prevention strategies is owed to the work of CMs including crime analysts and community program officers. CMs also provide valuable support and leadership in the areas of technological crime, telecommunications, strategic communications, and file management. A 50th anniversary lapel pin was created in recognition of the significant contributions that CMs have made to the RCMP and to Canadians.

On June 29, 2010 Michelle Suley of the Operational Communications Centre received a certificate of appreciation from the RCMP in New Brunswick’s Commanding Officer. Her ability to take charge under pressure showed when a suicidal man barricaded himself, and her actions played a large role in bringing a potentially violent situation to a successful conclusion.

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