Community Policing

Community Patrol Unit utilizes a team policing concept. This Unit promotes crime prevention and the shared responsibility between the community and the police for resolving crime problems and maintaining public order that may be unique to a specific area of the City of Peterborough and the Village of Lakefield.  See our Community Patrol Map for a visual of what each zone covers.

Each year, teams set goals and objectives, plan team meetings held, involved the input of citizens who reside in there are, and also promoted the sharing and coordination of information between teams.

• Team One - Police the heart of the City with a high concentration of commercial businesses.
• Team Two - Police the north end of the city with a high concentration of residential, schools, university and business core.
• Team Three - Police primarily residential in the west end of the City with industrial areas in the south.
• Team Four - Police mixed residential and commercial in the east and south part of the City.
• Team Five - Police the Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield Township Lakefield Ward.

This Division also contains Specialty Units including:

• Canine 
• Traffic
• Auxillary 
• Emergency Response
• Community Services