$166,470 for Collingwood/The Blue Mountains OPP and Nottawasaga OPP will help fight crime and keep people safe
News: Sept 2025 – For Immediate Release
Stayner, ON – The Collingwood/The Blue Mountains OPP and Nottawasaga OPP detachments are receiving a combined $166,470 as part of the Ontario government’s more than $91 million investment to help protect families and communities across the province.
The funding is being delivered through the Community Safety and Policing Grant Program and will be allocated as follows:
- Collingwood / The Blue Mountains OPP: $28,104.47 for a High School Resource Officer (SRO)
- This ongoing community engagement initiative features a dedicated School Resource Officer (SRO) from the Collingwood OPP who works closely with community partners and two local high schools, serving over 2,100 students, to support meaningful engagement with youth and their families. The SRO role, established over 20 years ago, is strongly supported by the Collingwood OPP Detachment Board. While the officer enforces criminal and provincial statutes, the primary focus is on relationship-building with students, staff, parents, and community organizations to create a safe, inclusive, and supportive school environment.
- Nottawasaga OPP: $98,365.65 for the Nottawasaga Safe Pathways Initiative (NCSP)
- The Nottawasaga Community Safe Pathways (NCSP) Initiative enhances front-line crisis response and community collaboration to improve safety and well-being in Adjala-Tosorontio, Essa, and New Tecumseth. Funding will sustain a full-time mental health crisis worker position on the Nottawasaga OPP Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT), enabling 7-day coverage to support individuals in crisis and reduce police apprehensions, hospital transfers, and emergency room use.
- Collingwood / The Blue Mountains OPP: $40,000 for the Community Engagement and Enforcement Team (CEET)
- Through this Community Safety & Policing Grant, this multi-faceted initiative is aimed at reducing crime, enhancing public safety, and rebuilding a sense of community in the downtown core.
These projects are 3 of 127 projects being funded across the province for 2025-26. Of the 127 projects, 88 projects will address local priorities and 39 projects will address provincial priorities, including gun and gang related violence, sexual violence and harassment, human trafficking, mental health and addictions, hate-motivated crime, housing and homelessness, and commercial/retail theft.
“Our government is delivering on our promise to protect Ontario and keep communities safe,” said Solicitor General Michael Kerzner. “Through this funding, we are helping to build safer communities by ensuring Ontario’s police services have the resources they need to address local issues and improve the well-being of the people they serve.”
The Community Safety and Policing Grant Program supports policing initiatives that focus on local or provincial priorities and provides eligible police services/boards and municipalities policed by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) with funding to deploy front-line officers where and when they are needed most.