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Matt Turner, Interim Huntsville OPP Detachment Commander, was before Huntsville’s General Committee with a summary of detachment activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner said the Huntsville OPP Detachment has experienced a staff shortage over the past few years due to promotions and the transfer of officers to other regions. He said staff complements were at about 60 per cent in the spring but that number has inched forward and is now sitting at the mid-70 per cent and hopefully by winter the complement will be in the 80s percentile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As well we’re experiencing a much younger generation of officers with that comes a lot of training issues and they’re just obviously not up to speed like everyone else. We have thankfully received experienced police officers, so those are laterals from other police services so that’s happening as well but again they’re not from the OPP so there’s a little bit of a learning curve.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner said statistically, the number of crimes has remained the same except in past years when calls for service had risen due to an influx of the population due to COVID, but those numbers have now stabilized to before COVID numbers. “So we notice now, and this is between Bracebridge and Huntsville, that things are starting to level out back to our normal numbers that we experienced in years past.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner told the committee that impaired driving is on the rise by 63 per cent “and then overall we can say that the severity of the violence involved in the crimes has increased… we’re noticing people are just generally more violent,” said Turner, adding that the trend is generally “across the board” not just specific to Muskoka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said cases are becoming more complex. “Investigative challenges such as technology, you know in the past we’d go to a scene before and there’s be one surveillance camera, now everyone has a camera in their house, now everyone has a phone up, it’s very time consuming collecting that data and properly disclosing it in a manner that can be used in court,” he said. “Case law is always changing. We’re always facing training updates as things are changing, and again, the age of our force requires just more oversight of our officers because we don’t have that senior detachment that I remember when I used to be here,” said Turner who has temporarily replaced Detachment Commander John-Paul Graham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the detachment is overall within its service delivery model times as well as its administrative requirements. “We are lacking in our proactive patrols. We’re shooting for a 21 per cent overall direction in that area and we’re only at 13 [per cent]. So that’s something that we need to work on,” said Turner who attributed the decline to the complexity of the calls for service being received and the need to spend more time on those calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner spoke of the Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team (MCRRT).  MCRRT is a program through which a mental health professional accompanies an officer to calls with the goal to de-escalate situations related to mental health and addiction. The program connects residents with the appropriate community resources and diverts them away from the hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Huntsville OPP Detachment took on the MCRRT pilot in the spring to service the district of Muskoka. From 2019 to 2023, there has been a 43 per cent increase in the number of mental health and addiction-related calls and a second MCRRT team is being added to the region that will help service the Bracebridge area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: OPP reports a significant increase in mental health-related calls, particularly in Huntsville<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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