Let’s Build: A Safer Brampton
We have more than doubled Peel’s police operating budget since 2018. I support investing in the people and tools needed to protect our communities. The next phase is to make those investments work together with better prevention, faster help for victims and City services that deal with problems before they grow.
Here is my eight-point plan.
1. Give police the support to tackle serious crime. Work with Peel Police on the priorities residents raise most often: shootings, home invasions, break-ins, auto theft and organized crime. At Regional Council, I will support well-defined investments in the officers, investigators and tools needed to address those threats.
2. Stop recurring crime. When the same location or group of victims is hit again and again, treat the reports as a pattern. Bring the right investigators, City staff and property owners together, assign someone to follow through and check whether the incidents stop.
3. Stand with families and businesses facing extortion. Build on Peel’s existing Extortion Task Force. People who report a threat need prompt safety advice, a clear point of contact and support as the investigation continues.
4. Make neighbourhood services part of the safety response. My zero-backlog by-law plan will set clear response standards for complaints about unsafe properties and recurring neighbourhood problems. City staff and police should coordinate when their work overlaps, so residents do not get passed from one agency to another.
5. Get people the right help during a mental health crisis. Expand what works in Peel’s existing mobile crisis response and improve transfers to hospital care. I will work with police, clinicians, hospitals and the Region to identify gaps in coverage and follow-up. That helps people in crisis and gives officers more time for calls that require police.
6. Support victims beyond the initial call. Connect people harmed by violence with medical care, trauma counselling, safety planning and housing help through the health care and community services already working in Peel. A referral should lead to actual support.
7. Invest in prevention for young people. Strengthen the connections between Peel’s youth violence prevention work, recreation, mental health care, stable housing and paths to local jobs. Give community partners clear goals and measure whether young people can reach the programs.
8. Show residents what is improving. Publish clear, Brampton-specific information on serious crime, response times, repeat incidents and outcomes alongside what we spend. Some offences will rise while others fall. Residents deserve the full picture and a plan that adjusts to it.
Police officers cannot build housing, run a hospital or provide every kind of mental health care. They should have strong partners in those areas. As mayor, I will keep investing in smart, effective public safety solutions that respect the taxpayer and help people feel safe where they live and work.
Four Years. One City. Let’s Build.
