Today, Inspector General Ryan Teschner released his 2024 Annual Report: “On the Road to Excellence: A Year of Progress and Purpose.” The report covers key challenges facing Ontario’s police services and some of the actions being taken to address them. Inspector General Teschner concludes that while Ontario’s policing system is strong overall, there are areas that require attention to meet the evolving public safety complexity and demand.
The report also highlights the significant work of Ontario’s Inspectorate of Policing (IoP) to improve the performance of the province’s police services and police service boards. In its first year of public operations, the IoP has:
- Initiated 46 complaint-based investigations in response to public concerns that identify common emerging themes, including: police response during protests, handling of intimate partner violence cases, quality of investigations, traffic enforcement, delays in police response and communication, and issues with records checks.
- Launched its first, annual Policing Insight Statement survey to gather perspectives from all of Ontario’s 43 municipal chiefs of police and police service boards to help identify areas of common opportunity and challenge across the sector.
- Released Inspector General Teschner’s first-ever Spotlight Report on the policing of protests and major events in Ontario, assessing compliance with provincial requirements for maintaining public order policing and providing recommendations to strengthen Ontario’s public order policing system.
- Initiated the first issue-specific inspection under the Community Safety and Policing Act.
Visit our website to read the Inspector General’s 2024 Annual Report.