Date:
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: HEMDCC Meeting Space, Main Floor Alderney Landing, 60 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth
Agenda
1. CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
1.1 Presentation for Commissioner Smith, Commissioner Blackburn, and former Commissioner Thomas
2. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – September 4, 2024
4. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS
5. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
6. CALL FOR DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
7. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS
7.1 Off Duty and Extra Duty Employment Policy – August 7, 2024 and September 4, 2024 [PDF]
Motion:
That the Board of Police Commissioners for the Halifax Regional Municipality:
1. Adopt in principle, subject to a period of public comment, the revised extra duty and off duty policies for inclusion in the Board of Police Commissioners’ Policy Manual, as outlined in Attachment 1 of the staff report dated July 18, 2024; and
2. Recommend that Regional Council request the Mayor to write a letter to the Minister of Justice to consider the appointment of trained municipal staff as Special Constables to provide traffic direction at special events.
8. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
8.1 Correspondence
8.2 Petitions
8.3 Presentations
9. INFORMATION ITEMS BROUGHT FORWARD – NONE
10. REPORTS/DISCUSSION
10.1 HALIFAX REGIONAL POLICE / ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE HALIFAX REGIONAL DETACHMENT CHIEF UPDATES
10.2 STAFF – NONE
10.3 MEMBERS OF BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS
10.3.1 Commissioner O’Malley - Province of Nova Scotia’s Updated Standards on Policing [PDF]
Motion:
That the Board of Police Commissioners for the Halifax Regional Municipality request Halifax Regional Police (HRP) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Halifax Regional Detachment (RCMP HRD) to prepare staff reports assessing compliance of existing police services, related standards, policies, and practices to the Province of Nova Scotia’s Updated Standards on Policing including the following:
1. Identify the updated standards to which HRM’s policing services are compliant and the areas that HRM policing services are non-compliant with the updated standards;
2. In the case of non-compliance, the report shall detail the nature of the non-compliance to the updated standards, identify any organizational, policy, and/or procedural changes required to achieve compliance with the updated standards; and
3. Develop an implementation plan detailing resource and cost estimates, dependencies, timelines, and associated risks to achieving compliance with the updated standards.
11. ADDED ITEMS
12. IN CAMERA (IN PRIVATE)
The Board of Police Commissioners may rise and go into a private In Camera (In Private) session, in accordance with Section 51 of the Nova Scotia Police Act for the purposes of dealing with the following:
12.1 In Camera (In Private) Minutes – September 4, 2024
Motion:
That the In Camera (In Private) minutes of September 4, 2024 be approved as circulated.
13. NOTICES OF MOTION
14. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – November 20, 2024
15. ADJOURNMENT
INFORMATION ITEMS
For further information regarding this meeting, please contact Jamie D’Angelo, Legislative Assistant, at Jamie.DAngelo@halifax.ca or 902-266-6071.
To submit correspondence, email clerks@halifax.ca
More information: https://www.halifax.ca/city-hall/boards-committees-commissions/a-c/board-police-commissioners/engagement-bopc, click on “Correspondence”