Peterborough Police Service Launch Interactive Community Safety Map

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To share more information on community safety and security, the Peterborough Police Service has launched a new interactive community safety map, which went live on Tuesday.

Screenshot, Youtube.

Available online, it is designed to improve community awareness of police activity and engage citizens in crime prevention strategies as a partnership method to build safer communities accroding to Stuart Betts, Peterborough Police Chief.

“The Community Safety Map is a way the Peterborough Police Service can further engage with our communities,” he explained. “It is about information sharing and providing certain data that is relevant to understanding the picture of safety that exists in our communities. In our current Strategic Plan we have committed to developing new proactive policing initiatives and messaging around public safety and crime prevention – this is one of those initiatives. We hope residents and visitors will find the information useful.”

The Community Safety Map shows the following types of calls for service:

  • Assault 

  • Break & Enter - Business/Residence

  • Drug Offences

  • Fraud

  • Impaired/Over 80

  • Mischief

  • Robbery

  • Shoplifting

  • Stolen Vehicle

  • Theft

  • Weapons

The incidents are not plotted to exact addresses but to larger intersections. The Peterborough Police cautions against using this call-for-service data to conclude the safety or crime levels for an area. The data is a snapshot in time and is subject to change. The map includes 365 days of data from the day a person views it.

If anyone has information about an incident, they can connect to the online reporting portal and Crime Stoppers through links on the map.

On the website, available is information on how to use the Community Safety Map, privacy information, and information about the types of crimes that are on the map.  

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