Team Two

In 2009, Team Two members, in response to complaints from area residents, conducted traffic enforcement projects on Cumberland Avenue and Towerhill Road. Members of the Auxiliary Policing Unit and Team Two members distributed questionnaires to area residents and canvassed door-to-door. Responses to the questionnaire and canvass resulted in a targeted effort concentrating mainly on enforcing the speed limit along Cumberland Avenue and Towerhill Road. Response was favourable from area residents and the local media covered the traffic projects. The project results on Towerhill Road supported efforts to have four-way stop signs installed at Towerhill Road and Neptune Street. Team Two members also worked with Trent University, local media, the DBIA and City Transit to ensure increased police presence, the availability of sufficient portable washrooms, increased public transit, media reports, and circulation of public information “zero tolerance” pamphlets during the weekend of the Head of the Trent. Members of Team Two continued to liaise with Trent University staff, security and students in order to educate them and assist in deterring offences from occurring, while keeping students safe throughout the year. Presentations were made regarding the Walk Safe Program and university officials had a direct contact to one of the Team Two members in order to address any questions or concerns to the Team. As a result of a high number of reported thefts, Team Two members worked closely with a major retailer in the city’s north end and made recommendations to the retailer’s administration that the store adopt a new practice at their exit locations to better monitor customers leaving their store. Team Two members also increased police visibility along the Rotary Trail in marked police vehicles, as well as bicycle and foot patrols.