Our priorities

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1. Foster and promote employee engagement and wellness
2. Enhance service delivery through stewardship, modernization and innovation
3. Strengthen partnerships and support reconciliation with Indigenous communities
4. Improve road and water safety through education, evidence-based enforcement and collaboration
5. Promote community safety and wellness through crime prevention, intervention, education

Foster and promote employee engagement and wellness

With a focus on employee well-being and consideration of our resourcing challenges, we must ensure the wellness of our employees, while being fully engaged. The benefits of supported employees improve overall satisfaction and directly affect our achievements, both professionally and personally.

We will support all employees whenever possible through the promotion of fitness, health, and work-life balance, while encouraging the use of the resources necessary to maintain both physical and mental health. With engaged and healthy employees, we will directly contribute to a stronger Division.

Enhance service delivery through stewardship, modernization and innovation

Our plan ensures the Division is suited to police our communities with the most efficient and effective policing services possible. We will work with our partners and stakeholders, in consultation with Manitoba Justice, to deliver on our mandate of keeping our communities safe by maximizing our resources.

As technology continues to evolve and the police landscape becomes more complex, it is important that D Division seeks out available resources and practices to optimize our delivery of policing services, while continuing to support and expand our current technological assets.

We will seek out best practices for recruitment and retention, while continuing to analyse resources and explore innovative service delivery and policing models, ensuring we are aligning ourselves efficiently and effectively.

Strengthen partnerships and support reconciliation with Indigenous communities

Our Division will continue to enact our D Division Reconciliation Story by building partnerships through engagement, consultation and shared communication. We will provide crime prevention and education programs, which are key components to support and protect the Indigenous Communities where we live and work. Cultural awareness and innovative training practices will be shared and encouraged throughout the Division.

Our connections with Indigenous communities will be strengthened through community engagement and other reconciliation initiatives, so we can work collaboratively towards improved understanding between detachments, community leaders and the citizens of Manitoba.

Improve road and water safety through education, evidence-based enforcement and collaboration

Road, off-road and water safety is a priority for Manitobans and D Division. Our enforcement efforts will guide us to primary areas of concern and facilitate in bringing attention to undesirable driving and boating habits.

In collaboration with Manitoba Public Insurance, other partners and the public, we will focus our efforts towards reducing the number of traffic-related and impaired-related injuries and fatalities in Manitoba.

Promote community safety and wellness through crime prevention, intervention, and education

Through analytical and intelligence efforts we will use evidence-based policing efforts and targeted enforcement to reduce crime in our Province. We will continue to build our investigative and intelligence capacity to direct our resources toward existing and emerging threats to our communities. We will focus our efforts in addressing crime, weapons, illicit drugs and gangs in Manitoba.

Our Division will continue to identify problematic areas, to address current and root causes of crime, in an effort to improve community safety and wellness. In identifying social disorder issues, we must leverage our partnerships to utilize social development programs and collaborate on issues such as mental health, addiction and family violence.

We will focus on reducing violence and victimization in Manitoba by addressing violent crime and maximizing the use of restorative justice. D Division will continue to adapt to the ever-changing world of cybercrime and fraud in Manitoba. The promotion of crime prevention through education and awareness will assist in reducing the opportunities for crime and violence in Manitoba.