Toronto Police expanding mobile crisis teams
by Faiza Amin and Jessica Bruno
Posted Apr 28, 2021 6:46 pm EDT
A Toronto police program that pairs officers with mental health nurses is expanding.
At a time some are questioning whether police should be the ones responding to mental health calls, changes are in the works for the mobile crisis intervention unit.
“The expansion is for the community and for the mental health community,” said Deputy Chief Peter Yuen, of the Toronto Police Service.
Last year, the mobile crisis intervention teams (MCIT) responded to 7,500 of the about 40,000 annual person-in-crisis calls. This year, the partnership between police and local hospitals will be available for more hours every day.
Dezeen promotion: Hong Kong-based My Archischool held its first exhibition of student projects on Easter Sunday, presenting architectural designs and models by its cohort of aspiring young architects.
The Youth ArchiDesign 2020 Exhibition and Symposium took place 4 April 2021 at the Sky100 Exhibition Hall, on the 100th floor of the International Commerce Centre (ICC).
The architectural designs of 29 students between the ages of six and 16 were showcased as part of a colourful nature-themed exhibition, arranged on a floor covered in dried ginko leaves.
Renderings of digital designs were displayed alongside physical models, which were all created by students enrolled in My Archischool programmes from July 2020 to February 2021.
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Last Updated Tuesday, April 13, 2021 11:40AM EDT The province s police watchdog is investigating after a police-involved shooting left a man with serious injuries in Toronto’s Moss Park neighbourhood on Tuesday morning. At around 8:50 a.m., Toronto police officers responded to reports of a man with a knife at a residential building at 275 Shuter Street, near Sherbourne Street. After attempting to de-escalate the situation, an officer discharged his gun and the man was struck, police said. An interaction took place in the stairwell with one other tenant and as a result of the interaction the gentleman has been transported to the hospital and the SIU mandate has been invoked, Deputy Chief Peter Yuen told CP24 at the scene.
Strip-searches by Toronto police drop dramatically in February
by Adrian Ghobrial
Last Updated Mar 2, 2021 at 8:11 pm EDT
For decades the Toronto Police Service has been criticized for ordering “a very large portion of people arrested” to take off their clothing while at a police station or sometimes even at the side of a road.
“Strip-search opportunities are abused elsewhere, but not as systemically or as regularly as they are in the city of Toronto,” says criminal defence Lawyer, Kim Schofield.
In January of this year, data shows Toronto Police performed strip-searches on more than 270 people per week. That’s 40 times higher than any other big city police service in Ontario. In February, that number dropped dramatically to about 40 per week.