What is CEAPC?
The Community Education and Access to Police Complaints (CEAPC) partnership is a network of forty organizations from across Toronto that includes legal clinics, ethnocultural organizations, community centres, grassroots groups, advocacy groups and more. Our goal is to increase community safety by enhancing the relationship between diverse communities and police.
The philosophy and principles of the CEAPC project and partnership are relate to those of community policing in that they rely on police and citizens working together, innovative and collaborative problem solving, regular contact and consultation with communities, ownership and responsibility in neighbourhoods, and the creation of opportunities for the community to be active in the policing process.
A functional and inclusive complaints system represents an important mechanism for civic engagement, promotes transparency and accountability, complements community policing approaches and through that is linked to community safety.
For more information on CEAPC please contact:
Susanne Burkhardt at sburkhardt@scaddingcourt.org
In the fall of 2008, CEAPC will host a Summit to further engage stakeholders in Ontario’s ongoing legislative process around police complaints. It is CEAPC’s goal to create a setting and an environment in which members of diverse communities, community-based organizations, police and individuals with expertise in issues related to police complaints can come together to develop concrete recommendations around the themes of access and support for complainants, public education, transparency and accountability for the regulations to be developed for Bill 103.
This event is focused on an issue of importance for many of Toronto’s diverse communities, is rooted in a community-based partnership, will provide a unique and very meaningful opportunity for learning and civic engagement and will significantly impact on the development of Ontario’s new police complaints system. In doing this it will promote enhanced police-community relations, support community policing activities and contribute to community safety.
For more information about the Summit on the Development of regulations for Bill 103, please contact Linda Epp at eppl@scaddingcourt.org
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