Ontario Protecting Communities by Enhancing Policing in Peel Region

September 26, 2025

$7,638,905.75 for Peel Regional Police will help fight crime and keep people safe.

MISSISSAUGA — The Peel Regional Police is receiving $7,638,905.75 as part of the Ontario government’s more than $91 million investment to help protect families and communities across the province. The funding is being delivered through the Community Safety and Policing Grant Program and will be used to expand several community safety initiatives, including creating a dedicated gang prevention and enforcement unit, enhancing mental health crisis response with specialized officers and support staff, piloting addiction worker partnerships to provide timely treatment referrals, strengthening intimate partner violence intervention teams, and establishing a standalone Hate Crime Unit.

“Our government will never compromise on community safety. With this investment, we’re giving Peel Regional Police the tools, training, and partnerships they need to prevent crime before it happens, support victims, and respond decisively when laws are broken,” said Silvia Gualtieri, Parliamentary Assistant to the Solicitor General and the MPP for Mississauga East-Cooksville. “Families across Peel can count on us to always keep their safety our top priority.”

Funding will also support data analytics capacity to improve intelligence-led policing, expand the successful Community Intervention Response Team (CIRT) across all four police divisions, and launch targeted operations to combat organized retail theft. Together, these investments will strengthen proactive enforcement, early intervention, and community partnerships to address crime, social challenges, and public safety risks across Peel Region.

The Peel Regional Police projects are among the 127 projects being funded across the province for 2025-26. Of the 127 projects, 88 projects will address local priorities and 39 projects will address provincial priorities, including gun and gang related violence, sexual violence and harassment, human trafficking, mental health and addictions, hate-motivated crime, housing and homelessness, and commercial/retail theft.

“Our government is delivering on our promise to protect Ontario and keep communities safe,” said Solicitor General Michael Kerzner. “Through this funding, we are helping to build safer communities by ensuring Ontario’s police services have the resources they need to address local issues and improve the well-being of the people they serve.”

The Community Safety and Policing Grant Program supports policing initiatives that focus on local or provincial priorities and provides eligible police services/boards and municipalities policed by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) with funding to deploy front-line officers where and when they are needed most.