| Core
Business Area: Policing and Community Safety |
| Goal: |
Adequate, effective, accountable
policing and law enforcement throughout British Columbia |
| Objective: |
Enhance effectiveness of
police agencies through technological, structural and operational
changes |
| Strategies: |
• Focus on critical infrastructure, specialized
police services, and other enhancement projects
• Integrate overlapping and duplicate police
services
|
| Objective: |
Ensure police have adequate
resources to protect the public and apprehend offenders |
| Strategies: |
• Administer and
monitor agreements for the delivery of RCMP services
• Restructure police financing to ensure equity
in funding policing costs
|
| Objective: |
Ensure that appropriate and
effective accountability mechanisms are in place |
| Strategies: |
• Implement accountability measures resulting
from evaluations and internal audits
• Update training requirements, curricula and
training regulations
• Improve appointment and training processes
for Police Board members
|
| Goal: |
Enhanced community safety
|
| Objective: |
Make communities and schools
safer |
|
Strategies:
|
• Strengthen and continue community-based restorative
justice initiatives (Community Accountability Programs (CAPs)),
and support the initiation of new CAPs
• Reduce violence against vulnerable citizens
through the enforcement of civil and criminal protection
orders
• Continue to support all communities, especially
First Nations communities, in developing crime prevention
and restorative justice programs
|
| Objective: |
Protect children |
|
Strategies:
|
• Provide criminal record checks for individuals
working with or afforded unsupervised access to children
• Support communities in developing strategies
to prevent youth crime, violence, bullying and sexual exploitation
of children and youth
|
| Objective: |
Enhance public safety and
confidence in the private security industry |
|
Strategy:
|
• Strengthen government oversight of the private
security industry
|
| Objective: |
Ensure that no unexplained
death is overlooked, concealed or ignored |
|
Strategy:
|
• Provide onsite investigations
|
| Goal: |
Enhanced support for victims
of crime |
| Objective: |
Enhance the delivery of victim
services programs |
|
Strategies:
|
• Improve access and timely provision of benefits
and services for victims of crime
• Streamline service delivery under a victims
mandate and provide more appropriate benefits and services
to all claimants
• Provide equitable access to victim services
by funding 24 new police-based and community-based victim
service programs and implementing a 24-hour, provincewide
crisis line for victims of family and sexual violence
|
| Goal: |
Reduced financial costs
associated with emergencies and disasters |
| Objective: |
Maintain effective awareness,
preparedness, response and recovery programs |
|
Strategies:
|
• Enhance public and multi-jurisdictional co-operation
• Employ the use of technology to achieve faster
and fuller return of federal Disaster Financial Assistance
(DFA) contributions
• Maintain the readiness status of provincial
emergency programs and continue to expand the capabilities
of trained and experienced staff
|
| Performance Measures: |
2000/01
Base Data |
2002/03
Estimate |
2003/04
Target |
2004/05
Target |
2005/06
Target |
| Output
Measures |
| # of policing enhancement
projects1 |
1 project
piloted |
4 projects
initiated |
Total of
8 projects initiated and 3 completed |
Total of
12 projects initiated and 6 completed |
Total of
16 projects initiated and 9 completed |
| # of communities participating
in problem-solving approaches to crime |
20 |
24 |
29 |
35 |
42 |
| # of First Nations communities
developing crime prevention programs that are culturally appropriate
|
6 |
8 |
10 |
13 |
17 |
| # of Community Accountability
Programs funded |
63 |
69 |
76 |
84 |
Maintain
or improve 2004/05 level |
| # of community-based youth
crime, violence, bullying and sexual exploitation projects
funded |
250 |
275 |
303 |
333 |
Maintain
or improve 2004/05 level |
| Outcome
Measures |
| % of British Columbians reporting
satisfaction with their personal safety from crime2
|
84% |
N/A |
N/A |
87% |
N/A |
Expenditures
for Core Business Area:
(With the exception of
FTEs, all figures are expressed in thousands of dollars) |
2002/03 Restated
Estimates |
2003/04
Estimates |
2004/05 Plan |
2005/06 Plan |
| Operating
Expenses ($000) |
| Operating Expenditures |
232,325 |
239,055 |
220,707 |
221,575 |
| Consolidated
Capital Plan (CCP) ($000) |
| Capital Expenditures (CPP)
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Ministry
Capital Expenditures (Consolidated Revenue Fund) ($000) |
| Capital Expenditures (CRF)
|
2,903 |
1,766 |
250 |
0 |
| Full-time
Equivalents (FTE) |
| FTEs direct |
183 |
210 |
208 |
208 |
| Other
Financing Transactions ($000) |
| Financing Transactions |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
