Dr.Qais Ghanem, host of Dialogue With Diversity on CHIN Radio Ottawa will be hosting a panel discussion on Youth and the Police: Knowing Your Rights and Responsibilities. Panellists representing youth, community, and police (Cst. Khoa Hoang) will discuss these questions from various perspectives.
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Room 113/114, Catholic Centre for Immigrants, 219 Argyle Avenue, Ottawa
The 2012 YIPI Program information is currently available on the Ottawa Police Service website:
http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/community/teenlounge/yipi.aspx.
Applications for YIPI Youth Placement positions will only be accepted from Monday January 2nd, 2012 to Friday February 17th, 2012 by 4pm.
Youth In Policing Initiative (YIPI) is a summer employment program with the Ottawa Police Service for youth 14-17 years of age and attending a secondary school program. The goal of the Youth in Policing Initiative is to give young people an opportunity to develop job skills while enhancing police and community relations. This program is for youth who may experience barriers to success and who can benefit from an opprtunity like this.
Click to see the YIPI poster
YIPI was initiated on February 14, 2006, when then Minister Mary Anne Chambers, of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, announced that the Ontario Government would be funding various youth opportunity initiatives, as part of the government’s new strategy to address the growing needs of our youth.
For eight weeks during July and August, YIPI participant will work in various Sections of the Ottawa Police Service, support community initiatives, and learn valuable life and employment skills. As well, participants will be afforded the opportunity to participate in the Co-operative Education program. Upon successful completion of the Co-operative Education program, participants may receive credits towards their secondary school program.
This month’s Somerset Community Police Centre Newsletter is now out. The Somerset Community Police Centre Newsletter is a monthly update on community safety that we send out by email.
Readers may notice that this month’s newsletter is in a new email format. We’ve moved over to using a new email newsletter system called MailChimp to help with the administration of the newsletter by improving the monitoring of our readership, maintenance of links, and our subscription list.
We hope you will find it easy to read, and look forward to any feedback you may have.
This month’s newsletter covers the following.
• Policing the Lion on Somerset
• Question of the month
• Cst. Hoang’s monthly Backyard Beat column
• Rideau Canal Ice Conditions link
• Ottawa Police Service – How We Can Help You? link
• What numbers to call for police
We’ll be reposting some of this content to the blog in the coming weeks.
If you’d like to receive the Somerset Community Police Centre Newsletter, please email Constable Hoang at YourCPC@gmail.com with the Subject line “Subscribe to Newsletter“.
The January edition of Constable Hoang’s Backyard Beat column is now out. This month’s column is focused on the memory of a local merchant and community member who made a great impression on our downtown community…but who many may have never recognized.
“Everyone who walked through his door was greeted with a smile. He knew everyone by name and everyone was family when you ate at The Friendly Corner Deli. The place was never anything fancy, but it was definitely a friendly corner to many of us who walked by his large storefront windows and watched George make his sandwiches..”
To read the full article, please visit our website, here. Or pick up a copy of your local community newspaper.
• Centretown: The Centretown Buzz
• Glebe: The Glebe Report
• Old Ottawa South: The OSCAR
• Old Ottawa East: The Main Streeter
Or online at the Centretown News.
This Thursday the Ottawa Police Service Break & Enter Team charged two males with a number of Centretown break-ins.
OPS investigators were able to determined a pattern to a series of break-ins that had been occurring in Centretown since December 9th, 2011. As a result of surveillance conducted, two males were arrested on the evening of Wednesday January 11th.
Charged:
Ronald Renaud RIVET 68 years of age, of Ottawa
• 4 Counts of Break and Enter and Theft
• Theft of Motor Vehicle
• Possession of stolen property Over $5,000
Douglas Roy LAFLEUR 52 years of age, of Ottawa (currently a wanted parolee)
• 12 Counts of Break & Enter and Theft
• 3 Counts of Theft of Motor Vehicle
• Possession of stolen property Over $5,000
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