FAQs

Community Engagement

• Regular posts about crime updates, success stories, safety tips, and officer spotlights.
• Live Q&A, virtual town halls, and surveys.
• Joint problem-solving with residents, social services, municipal partners, Sturgeon Rural Crime Watch, and Citizens on Patrol.
• Public education and workshops.
• Police involvement in youth leadership and career academies, camps, or sports leagues.
• Participation in festivals, school events, parades, and holiday activities.
• Consistent police contact at community association meetings.
• Informal conversations and presence at community events.

Cyber and Technology Crimes

• Partner with INTERPOL, or National Cybercrime task forces.
• School presentations on social media safety, cyberbullying, and sextortion.
• Campaigns and education on phishing scams, identity theft, ransomware, and safe online behaviour.
• Promote reporting to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC), and local police.
• Educate the public about online reporting as a tool for reporting cybercrime and scams.
• Issue timely alerts to the community via the RAVE app about phishing campaigns and digital threats.

Hate Crimes and Harassment

• Review files for hate motivation indicators.
• Regular liaison with faith-based, cultural, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+, and newcomer organizations.
• Attend community events, vigils, and cultural celebrations.
• Promote anonymous or third-party reporting options (e.g., online reporting).
• Educate the public on what qualifies as a hate crime or hate incident.
• Public awareness and prevention campaigns.

Increase Police Visibility

• High visibility patrols.
• Targeted presence in hotspots.
• Foot and bicycle patrols.
• Police presence at community events.
• Police stationed in schools/ school resources officers.
• Coffee with a Cop
• Joint Force Operations (with Sheriffs and Municipal Enforcement Officers).
• RAVE app (information being communicated consistently to residents who subscribe to RAVE).

Public Order Offences

• Patrols in high complaint areas.
• Target known areas of repeat disturbances.
• Adapt patrol strategies and resource deployment based on seasonal or event-based trends.
• Analyze calls for service and public complaints to identify peak times and trouble spots.
• Increased presence during large events, festivals, weekends, and holidays.
• Collaborate with local municipal enforcement where appropriate.
• Encourage Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) strategies.
• Encourage public reporting of disturbances.

Reduce Drug Offences

• Dedicated drug units or street crime teams targeting dealers and suppliers.
• Search warrants for known drug houses or trafficking hubs.
• Surveillance and undercover operations focused on high-risk locations.
• Proactive patrols in alleys, parks, or abandoned buildings.
• Mapping overdose locations or known drug-use sites.
• Referrals to social agencies or outreach teams.
• Training officers to carry and administer naloxone.
• School-based programs.

Reduce Fraud/ Scams

• Fraud prevention presentations for seniors, schools, and community groups.
• Educate youth about phishing, catfishing, and online fraud prevention.
• RAVE alerts, online maps, and social media campaigns through municipal partners to notify residents of fraud trends.
• Work with provincial and federal agencies.
• Distribute pamphlets and posters through municipal partners, businesses, and community groups.
• Promote reporting of fraud/scams to the police and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
• Partner with senior centres or assisted living to deliver fraud workshops.
• Track local fraud cases and issue public alerts.

Reduce Persons Crimes

• Patrols in areas with high rates of assault, robbery, or disturbances.
• De-escalate violent incidents and prevent escalation.
• Conduct proactive curfew, probation, or condition checks on individuals with histories of violence or who are out on release conditions.
• Monitor times and locations with known spikes.
• Collect field intelligence.
• Use lawful search and seizure powers when appropriate.
• Evidence preservation
• Regular check-ins at schools or among high-risk youth.

Reduce Property Crime

• Patrols in high-theft areas.
• Promote Community Assisted Policing Through Use of Recorded Evidence (C.A.P.T.U.R.E.).
• Promote Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
• Work with Sturgeon Rural Crime Watch and Citizens on Patrol groups.
• Public awareness and education sessions on theft prevention measures.
• Distribute tips through RAVE app and municipal partners (lock it or lose it, registration of serial numbers, etc.). NOTE: RAVE is a web-based communication platform that fans out real-time alerts from RCMP to community members in Alberta who have opted in to the service.
• Predictive analytics to anticipate property crime trends
• Targeted Specialized Investigations
• Prolific/habitual offender management (e.g., organized monitoring of repeat offenders, and efficient process for arrests).

Traffic and Vehicle Offences

• Targeted traffic enforcement.
• Random or targeted check stops.
• High-risk location patrols.
• Public awareness and education campaigns.
• Joint force operations with municipal enforcement and Sheriffs.
• School presentations, driving simulation booths, and prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program.
• Vehicle safety and compliance checks.
• Participation in local traffic safety committee.
• Data analysis to adjust enforcement or education focus.
• Social media messages through the RAVE app and via municipal partners.