Ontario Enhancing Community Policing Programs in Leeds Grenville

October 24, 2025

MPP Clark announces more than $940,000 for local projects

BROCKVILLE — The Ontario government is investing $940,780 through the Community Safety and Policing Grant Program to strengthen local community policing, Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clark announced today.

The local projects are among 127 being funded across Ontario for 2025-26 and include:

Brockville Police Service
	$56,208	Supporting the Community Outreach Program, including youth-at-risk initiatives.
	$432,357	Increased investigative capacity for guns, gangs, and drug-related crime.
Grenville County OPP
	$28,104	Enhanced Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) training and support for Connect Youth Core Program.
	$363,218	Expansion of Connect Youth Core Program to North Grenville District High School. Also sustains enhanced MCRT.
Gananoque Police Services
	$60,893	Maintain and enhance MCRT and expanded youth outreach programming.

“Funding for these projects will help our local police services build upon the success of the Mobile Crisis Response Teams to better reach vulnerable populations, including at-risk youth and those experiencing an addiction or mental health crisis,” said MPP Clark. “At the same time, we’re ensuring frontline officers have the tools and resources they need to keep our communities safe by funding projects that target guns, gangs, and drug-related crime.”

The Grenville County projects were the result of an application that was led by the Town of Prescott, said MPP Clark, adding all of them involve several community partners working closely with police.

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.

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