1983 BILL 227 First Session, 20th Legislature, 32 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 227 COMMUNITY CRIME PREVENTION ACT MR. MARTIN First Reading Second Reading --^ Committee of the Whole • •^•^- •^- m iii«-< Third Reading Royal Assent -^ • • •

Bill 227 Mr. Martin BILL 227 1983 COMMUNITY CRIME PREVENTION ACT (Assented to , 1983) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of tiie Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 7 The Department of the Solicitor General Act is amended by this Act. 2 The following is added after

section 4: 4.1(1) In this section, (a) "community pilot project" means a temporary law enforcement assistance project undertaken in a selected Alberta community neighbourhood which has as its objective the involvement of local citizens and community groups in the prevention of crime within the community neighbourhood; (b) "neighbourhood policing program" means a law enforcement assistance program in a municipality which encourages the decentralization of policing and law enforce­ ment services in communities and which has the prevenfion of crime as its primary object.

(2) The Minister shall establish a Community Crime Prevention Division in the Department.

(3) The purposes of the Community Crime Prevention Division are: (

a) to develop effective neighbourhood policing programs, (

b) to provide for, administer the funding of, and evaluate community pilot projects undertaken pursuant to the regu­ lations, (

c) to provide for and administer the funding of neighbour­ hood policing programs, and

Explanatory Notes 1 This Bill will amend

chapter D-28 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1980. 2 Creation of Community Crime Prevention Division and its functions.

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d) to provide public information on neighbourhood policing programs and community pilot projects.

(4) Community pilot projects and neighbourhood policing pro­ grams shall be established only in those municipalities that have advised the Solicitor General that they wish to participate. 3 The following is added after

section 5(2 )(k): (1) the manner in which communities or neighbourhoods may be selected for participation in the community pilot projects, providing that (

i) no community or neighbourhood may be selected unless the residents of that community or neighbourhood indicate, by a 2/3 majority vote, that they wish their community or neighbourhood to be selected, and (ii) no community may be so selected for a period exceeding 3 years; (

m) the process and criteria by which the effectiveness of the community pilot project program is to be evaluated; (

n) goveming the provision of grants to municipalities for the purpose of establishing and maintaining community pilot projects and neighbourhood policing programs pursuant to

section 4.1, providing that money has been appropriated to that purpose by the Legislature; (

o) providing a procedure for taking a vote for the purpose of clause (1). 4 This Act comes into force on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

3 Amends regulation making power to include community crime preven­ tion. 4 Coming into force. Title: 1983 (20th, 1st) Bill 227, Community Crime Prevention Act