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City for Everyone.
Policing in Alberta is broken.
We want you to join us in Re-Imagining Public Safety.
We train, inform, and organize advocates and help them understand policing in Edmonton.
Want to be a part of it?
Accountability and Transparency
Edmonton has a civilian oversight board that governs our police; the Edmonton Police Commission (EPC). The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was formed in 2008 with the intention to hold police agencies accountable for misconduct. Despite this, officers are still rarely charged in cases of misconduct and police discipline is largely left to the agencies themselves.
We need to rethink our accountability mechanisms in this province. Where no longer police investigate themselves, and continue to find no wrong-doing. EPAC sustains efforts that encourage learning about accountability processes in Alberta, providing critical context needed to re-shape our failing institutions.
Financial Sustainability
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The Edmonton Police Service (EPS), unlike all other city departments, is primarily funded through a funding formula.This process lacks transparency compared to other city services, which require additional expenditure requests for debate and approval. The funding formula does not allow for reductions in the city’s expenditures on police, only increases, despite other city services facing immense budget constraints.
EPS is the most well-funded service per capita among comparable cities in Canada. It’s time to address this discrepency and allow for more balanced budgeting.
Re-imagined Public Safety
Healthy and thriving communities require public safety systems that meet their needs. And governments that deliver safety services need meaningful guidance on how best to deliver them. Every day Edmontonians call 911 for issues ranging from violent crime, to a loved one suffering a mental health crisis, to a noise complaint.
32% of calls that EPS currently attends are person-in-need calls involving no crime. A badge and a gun don’t — and can’t — resolve many of these needs and, far too often, make things worse.
EPAC supports strong, healthy, and safe communities, and ending our over-reliance on police.
