Program – Tuesday 15 July

M3.1 Championing Policing and Public Health Collaboration

Convenor: Jennifer Styles, Senior Program Manager, International Association of Chiefs of Police
Panellists:

• Kelly Burke, MPH, Senior Program Manager, International Association of Chiefs of Police
• Jennifer Styles, MPH, Senior Program Manager, International Association of Chiefs of Police
• Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, Director, Center for Injury Research and Policy & Professor, Bloomberg American Health Initiative, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Don Hedrick, DrPh Candidate, Chief of Police, Rapid City Police Department

M3.2 Breaking the Cycle: Combating Occupational Stress Wounds, Moral Injuries and PTSD

Convenor: Derek Sienko, President and CEO of Diversified Rehabilitation Group

Objective: To examine the impact of social challenges—such as homelessness, mental health crises, and organizational stressors on first responders’ mental health and explore solutions to reduce occupational stress injuries, moral injuries, and PTSD.

Panellists:

• Al Treddenick, CEO of ATNOH Group, a Global Public Safety and Risk Consultancy
• Lucie Tremblay, Deputy Chief Lucie Tremblay (Retired)
• Norm Taylor, independent advisor, educator, author and researcher
• Jadie Miller, Firefighter | CEO/Founder PYROC
• Derek Sienko, President and CEO of Diversified Rehabilitation Group

M3.3 “De-escalation in the Digital Age”: Preparing Future Officers in Mental Health Crisis Response Using Virtual Reality Scenario Training

Convenor: Jennifer Lavoie, Jennifer Lavoie, Associate Professor, Criminology and Psychology, Laurier University
Chair:

• Leveraging Virtual Reality (VR) to Explore Officers’ Lived Experience of Mental Health Crisis
  Lisa Whittingham, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Disability Studies, Brock University
  Co-authors: Margo Hinchberger, Jennifer Lavoie, John Muñoz Cardona

• Physiological Insights from VR-Based Police Training for Mental Health Crisis Response in USA and Canadian Police Officers
  John Edison Muñoz, Assistant Professor, User Experience Design, Laurier University

M3.4 LEPH Collection #2: what would you like to know? what do we need to know from you?

Convenor: Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron

This panel seeks to introduce the 2^nd collection focused on LEPH and asks the audience what areas might be missing in the topics addressed in the book.

Panellists: TBC

M3.5 Redefining Community, there is no us and them. A radical revisioning of policing wellness and community safety, surprise it’s the same thing.

Convenor: Lit (Rtd) Diane Goldstein
Chair:
Panellists:

• Shawn Fisk, CAPSA Education & Partnership Lead
• Sgt (rtd) Neil Woods, former undercover police officer
• Gord Garner, Director SCMSUH Ltd
• Sgt Eric Rajah, National Drug Coordinator, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

P5.1 Collaboration in practice

• Assessing the Impact of CORE: Six Month Analysis of Proactive Hotspot Patrols in Ottawa
  Kaira Theos, Research Analyst, Ottawa Police Service

• The CARE Team: A Collaborative, Evidence-Based Response to Mental Health, Addictions, and Homelessness-Related Police Calls
  Madison Charman, Organizational Researcher, Barrie Police Service
  Co-authors: Chief Rich Jonston, Chief Sarah Mills

• Building Better Police Encounters: Experiences and Suggestions from Neurodivergent Australians
  Megan M. Parry, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Rhode Island, USA
  Co-authors: Dr. Lorana Bartels, Dr. Nicole Asquith, Dr. Angela Dwyer, Dr. Jess Rodgers

• How the LEAD program reduces harm, increases resiliency and promotes reconciliation in communities across the U.S
  Najja Morris-Frazier, Director, LEAD Support Bureau, Purpose Dignity Action (PDA)
  Co-author: Patricia Sully

P5.2 LE Health and Wellbeing 3

• The Power of Being Seen: Fostering Connection through Peer Reflection in Policing
  Tegan Brierley-Sollis, Lecturer in Policing, Criminology and Trauma Informed Approaches, Wrexham University

• Victim-Survivor-Centric, Trauma-Informed (VCTI) Responses to Negative Workplace Behaviours and Psychosocial Hazard Victimisation; a Queensland Police Service (QPS) Perspective
  Jill Clarke, Principal Health Clinician, State Case Management Unit, Ethical Standards Command, Queensland Police Service, Queensland, Australia

• Being Preventative: Exploring the interface between police wellbeing and primary care
  Emma Williams, Professor, Centre of Excellence in Equity for Uniformed Public Services, Anglia Ruskin University
  Co-author: Richard Harding

• From Pain to Progress: Addressing Grief in Law Enforcement to Support Officer Wellness and Public Safety
  Jessenia Ogunade, Licensed Mental Health Clinician, Larimar Counseling Services LMSW PLLC

P5.3 ACEs and Trauma-informed Policing 3

• Exploring relationships between neurodivergence and adverse childhood experiences
  Charley Wilson, Researcher, Liverpool John Moores University
  Co-authors: Nadia Butler, Zara Quigg, David Moore, Mark Bellis

• Adverse childhood experiences, and violence and criminal justice outcomes in adulthood – the mediating role of positive and compensatory childhood experiences
  Zara Quigg, Professor, Liverpool John Moores University
  Co-authors: Nadia Butler, Charley Wilson, Mark A Bellis

• Characteristics associated with Substance Use during Pregnancy in New Brunswick: A Population-Based Adminstrative Data Study
  Sandra Magalhaes, Faculty Research Associate, New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT), Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick (UNB) Fredericton
  Co-authors: Samuel Cookson, Simon Youseff, Ted McDonald, Natalia Fana, Sarah Lunney, Jaide Cashin, Sarah Gander

• No safe space: Impact of cumulative disadvantage of adversity in the home and exclusion from school on victimisation and offending behaviour within a justice-involved youth sample
  Nadia Butler, Research Fellow, Liverpool John Moores University
  Co-authors: Charley Wilson, Zara Quigg, Ellie McCoy

P5.4 Violence – sexual, intimate partner and other 3

• “Coloured by our sexuality”: How LGBTQ+ in Australia experience survival IPV and the critical role Law Enforcement and Public Health agencies
  Alex Workman, PhD Student, Western Sydney University
  Co-authors: Angela Dwyer, Tony Rossi

• Engaging men as prosocial bystanders in the nighttime economy: behavioural insights research for sexual harassment prevention
  Emma Barton, Wales Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Wales
  Co-authors: Bryony Parry, Lara Snowdon, Alex Walker, Wales Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Wales, Cardiff.

• Policing and Sex Work in London: Views from the Street
  Jyoti Belur, Professor of Policing;  University College London
  Co-author: Dr Ella Cockbain

• Developing a public health approach to modern slavery and human trafficking in the United Kingdom
  Elizabeth Such, Anne McLaren Fellow, University of Nottingham
  Co-author: Professor Dame Sara Thornton

• Public health policing in the Pacific Islands: Understanding place-based responses to gender-based violence
  Melissa Jardine, Adjunct Research Fellow, University of the South Coast
  Co-authors: Professor Kerry Carrington, Carla Ungar, Helen Singh

• The Same old Story: Exploring Policemen’s Perspectives on Domestic Violence
  Rachael HaileSelasse, Adjunct Faculty, Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health

P5.5 LEPH 1

• Normalizing Police Involvement with Law Enforcement & Public Health (LEPH) Interventions: Comparing Three Fields of Intervention
  Barry Goetz, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (US)

• Some simple observations about hard – and important – LEPH questions
  Evan Anderson, Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
  Co-authors: Sydney King, Ruth Shefner

• Preventing Future Deaths – partnerships and public health
  Michael Brown, PhD Researcher

• The Epidemic of Failed Governance: Implications for Public Health and the Law
  Jocelyn Rivers, PHd Candidate, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada
  Co-authors: Jennifer Sullivan, Alison Rothwell, Negin Esfandiari, Kyle Hunt, Jeff Wilson

MoI 4.1

Chair:

Lighting the Fire Within – A Culture and Trauma Informed Curriculum – Delivery and Impacts. 

Convenor: Taylor Sayers, Director of Corporate Services, UCCM Anishnaabe Police Service
Co-authors: Lorrilee McGregor, Det Sgt Todd Fox

The UCCM Police has been delivering a culture and trauma informed curriculum that was developed by Taylor Sayers, as a part of the Lighting the Fire Within (LTFW) project. LTFW was created with a specific goal to reduce the gender-based violence (GBV) statistics in the Indigenous communities that the police served.

MoI 4.2

Chair:

A New Vision of Blue: How Police-Community Collaboration Transforms Public Safety

Convenor: Kristin Daley, Executive Director, New Blue

New Blue is a national incubator for collaborative action between police and the communities they serve. Through our New Blue Community Trust Fellowship, community organizations work with their police departments to build sustainable and impactful solutions to the biggest challenges in the justice system, making direct changes to local law enforcement agencies through policy and practice. This session will introduce New Blue’s transformative model that prioritizes mutual understanding, shared responsibility, and collective action in fostering public safety, while deploying a support network strategy with a proven track record of keeping good officers in the job and connected with their community’s needs.

The Alternative Response Research Collective: A Practitioner-Led Initiative Advancing the Future of Community Safety

Convenor: Mariela Ruiz-Angel, MSW, MBA, Director of Alternative Response Initiatives, Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety

The success of Alternative First Response (AFR) programs hinges on integration within crisis care, sustainable funding, and workforce development. By diverting behavioral health and social service calls from law enforcement to unarmed responders, these programs offer more appropriate interventions but face challenges like funding stability and interagency collaboration. The Alternative Response Research Collective (ARRC), led by the Center for Innovations in Community Safety, uses participatory research to develop practitioner-led AFR guidance. This panel highlights strategies for sustainability, workforce retention, and policy integration, sharing insights on funding, training, and consent-based care

MoI 4.3

Chair:

Training on People with Disabilities for Law Enforcement

Convenor: Eitan Charnoff, Secretariat, Secure Communities Forum
Co-facilitator: Stan Gilmore

The Secure Communities Forum (SCF) International Working Group on People of Determination (PoDs) developed specialized training for law enforcement to better understand and support people with disabilities (PwDs). This training addresses the unique challenges officers may encounter while fostering dignity and trust, and focuses on equipping law enforcement officers with practical skills to effectively interact with PwDs. Participants will learn about disability types, communication strategies, and inclusive practices that improve safety and service delivery.

Are We Unsafe or Are We Uncomfortable – The Role of Bias and Lack of Self Reflection when “Helping” Vulnerable People

Convenor: Matthew Swarney, Director, Government Affairs, Motorola Solutions Canada
Co-presenters: Greg Burnett, Kassidy Green, Raven Glasgow (TBC), Audrey Monette

The world of LEPH now includes a large and expanding library of policies and programs that have shown to improve the lives of vulnerable people who have been subject to multiple contact with human services agencies, in particular the police. Who has the authority to determine who is worthy of intervention, and what criteria are used in making such decisions? The panelists will explore this issue through their diverse and varied experiences and perspectives in policing, social services and academia. They will propose what may initially seem to be seemingly simple steps anyone can take, provided they have the courage to challenge prevailing norms, grounded in the lived experience of people who are often misunderstood and disproportionately targeted for “help” simply because they do not “fit in” with societal expectations.  Panelists will shed light on more effective and compassionate approaches to such interventions.

MoI 4.4

Chair:

Now and Then: Applying evidence-based approaches to address crime and violence through Stratified Policing and through preventative trauma-informed approaches to policing

Convenor: Mark Crowell, PhD, Chief of Police, Waterloo Regional Police Service
Co-presenter: Inspector Aaron Mathias

Despite considerable economic prosperity and opportunity, Waterloo Region has among the highest crime severity rates in Ontario. The Waterloo Regional Police Service has sought to establish keystone evidence-based and trauma-informed programs and partnerships to improve community safety and wellbeing, and has adopted an evidence-based approach known as Stratified Policing, a structured, evidence-based approach that focuses on identifying and developing tailored responses for locations with high levels of victimization, for chronic offenders, and for the most serious crimes. Simultaneously, trauma-informed approaches have been implemented to prevent future crime and violence outcomes, including the Waterloo Region Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan, a Public Health-led Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) framework, and a Youth Engagement Strategy which includes diversion and prevention pathways.

Hands Off: Reducing police perpetrated violence against vulnerable groups partnership – South African Police Service (SAPS) Dignity, Diversity and Policing (DDP) programme

Convenor: Munyaradzi I Katumba, Senior Programme Manager – Stichting Aidsfonds

Police officers are one of the biggest perpetrators of physical and sexual violence against sex workers and other key populations groups in South Africa, with an adverse impact on HIV risks, criminal justice and public health services uptake among LGBTQ+ people, sex workers and people who use drugs. By engaging with police and training them on human rights, dignity and diversity in community policing, police can play a key role in HIV prevention and national public health outcomes. The DDP training program is about organisational systems change within SAPS by increasing police officers’ knowledge, changing their attitudes and practices positively to improve community policing and human rights for all, developed in partnership with Aidsfonds, COC Netherlands, key populations and the South African Police Service.

P6.1 Miscellaneous – the breadth of LEPH

• Adversity in underage right-wing extremists in Dutch police files
  Anton Weenink, Senior researcher, National Police of the Netherlands

• Preventing Drowning Through Partnerships in Canada’s Capital Region
  Sean Duffy
  Co-authors: Caroline Gallant, Paul Ensom
  Ottawa Drowning Prevention Coalition (Lifesaving Society, Ottawa Police Service, Ottawa Paramedic Service)

• Deaths from Vehicle Collisions and Shootings: Enhancing Resource Allocation in Manhattan
  Tyler Keller, PhD Student, Rutgers University
  Co-authors: Dahianna López, Joel Caplan, Andy Horn

• Arming police will lead to more shootings, right? A fifty year analysis of officer involved shootings in Australia suggests otherwise
  Ross Hendy, Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  Co-author: Zarina Vakhitova

P6.2 Police education and training

• Integrating Trauma-Informed Policing from Recruit Training Onward: results from the Tasmania Police TIP program evaluation
  Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Associate Professor, Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies
  Co-author: Commander Joanne Stolp

• Resilience Under Pressure: Evaluating a Biofeedback-Based Intervention for Crisis Management in Police Work
  Teun-Pieter de Snoo, principal investigator Resilience, Dutch Police Academy

• Health Literacy Training for Police Recruits
  Heather M. Ross, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  Co-author: Alisa Squires

• Enhancing Law Enforcement and Public Health Approaches through the Curriculum
  Denise Martin, Head of Subject for Policing, Northumbria University
  Co-authors: Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Dr Inga Heyman

• Community Building Circles for Students Studying Criminal Justice and Health
  Nemesia Kelly, Associate Professor, Chair, Criminal Justice and Health, Public Health Program, College of Education and Health Sciences, Touro University California, Co-Principal, CJH Lab, Vallejo, California, USA
  Co-authors: Gayle Cummings, Michelle Wolfe,

P6.3 LEPH in Indigenous Communities

• Mainstreaming Indigenous Communities in Health Through Decentralization: Uganda’s Experience in Mitigating Social Cultural and Legal Barriers
  Paul Kalyesubula, Advocacy and Communications Department, National Community of Women Living with Hiv/Aids, Uganda
  Co-author: Ronald Nakabaale

• The Power of Community: An Examination of the Selkirk First Nation Community Safety Officer Program
  Jason Fenno, PhD Candidate, Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies, Trent University

• Lighting the Fire Within – A Culture and Trauma Informed Curriculum Delivered and its Impacts
  Taylor Sayers, UCCM Anishnaabe Police Service
  Co-author: Lorrilee McGregor

• Public Health Approach to Policing: Addressing Drivers of Crime
  Catherine Leonard, Research Director, Ihi Research
  Co-author: John Leonard, Kaihautū, Ihi Research

• Intersectionality and Policing: Implications for Indigenous Communities
  Catherine Savage, Research Director, Ihi Research
  Co-author: John Leonard, Kaihautū, Ihi Research

• Partnership in Policing Research: Learnings from New Zealand’s Indigenous Collaboration
  Catherine Leonard, Research Director, Ihi Research
  Co-author: John Leonard, Kaihautū, Ihi Research

P6.4 LEPH 2

• Bridging Data Silos: A collaborative approach to community-centred public health and safety
  Kady Carr, Director, Ottawa Neighbourhood Study, Bruyère Health Research Institute, Ottawa, ON
  Co-authors: Anzo Nguyen, Dr. Claire E. Kendall

• Finding Accountability and Leverage in LEPH System Change: the Sheller Initiative
  Evan Anderson, Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
  Co-authors: Sydney King, Ruth Shefner

• California Racial Justice Act (CRJA) of 2020: A Call to Action for Public Health Professionals
  Gayle Cummings, Assistant Dean/Professor/Program Director, Public Health Program, College of Education and Health Sciences, Touro University California, Co-Principal, Criminal Justice and Health Lab
  Co-authors: Nemesia Kelly, Anika Lee, Kevin Williams, Karina Alvarez

• How can we communicate a public health approach with frontline policing?
  Elizabeth Such, Anne McLaren Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK
  Co-author: Ruth Bailey

P6.5 In and out of Corrections

• Only Young Once: Youth Incarceration in the Deep South
  Delvin Davis, Senior Policy Analyst, Southern Poverty Law Center

• Improving Outcomes for Contra Costa Public Defender Clients
  Hans Menos, Vice President, Center for Policing Equity
  Co-author: Paula Ionaide, Robert Kenter

• A linked administrative data study of continuity of care for patients in contact with Alberta corrections
  Katerina Dolguikh, MSc student; University of Calgary
  Co-authors: Reed Beall, Paul Ronksley

• Virtual Reality for Exonerees: A Path to Healing
  Nemesia Kelly, Associate Professor, Chair, Criminal Justice and Health, Public Health Program, College of Education and Health Sciences, Touro University California, Co-Principal, CJH Lab, Vallejo, CA, USA
  Co-authors: Gayle Cummings, Obie Anthony, Anika Lee, Kim Codella, Aaron McMath

• COVID-19 impacts on decarceration for Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study
  Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, University of Toronto
  Co-authors: Nina Lamberti, Ruth Croxford, Beverley Osei, Amanda Butler, Ruth Elwood Martin, Jessica Jurgutis, Kate McLeod, Martha Paynter, Howard Sapers, Raya Semeniuk, Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian

• From Punishment to Health: Reducing Drug Toxicity-Related Risk among Recently Released Individuals
  Safiyah Husein, Meaghan Costa, Director of Policy and Research & Evaluation Specialist, John Howard Society of Ontario
  Co-authors: Capryce Taylor, Sara Fructman

• Incarceration and Intersectionality: Perinatal Care Barriers Faced Marginalized Populations
  Xaand Bancroft, PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa
  Co-author: Wendy Peterson

MoI 5.1

Chair:

Fixated Threat Management – Dignitary Protection, Public Protection, Public Good

Convenor: Sammi Elfituri, Chief Inspector, Protection Operations  – Royalty and Specialist Protection (RaSP), Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), London, UK

Within dignitary protection, UK FTAC (Fixated Threat Assessment Centre), works to identify and mitigate threats from individuals who may be fixated through mental illness, on public figures. The UK model has been adopted globally. Since 2020, the RCMP has been a key partner of FTAC UK and have built their own model by adopting a similar approach to FTAC UK and growing it’s capacity to provide behavioural threat assessment.

 Multidisciplinary Assessment Collaborative (MAC) ZERO

Convenor: Amber R. McDonald, PhD, LCSW, Deputy Director, Assistant Professor, START, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Current practice relies heavily on criminological frameworks that do not collect social determinants, developmental variables, and cultural factors which may bring someone to extremist violence. Thus, current practices miss critical opportunities for intervention with marginalized communities. Our project developed an innovative program framework that centers equitable practices for reviewing risk and protective factors. We have expanded current threat analysis to include social determinants and developmental perspectives that bring an individual to the point of extremist violence.  These variables better inform intervention and redirection strategies

Training on People with Disabilities and Emergency Preparedness

Convenor: Eitan Charnoff, Secretariat, Secure Communities Forum

The Secure Communities Forum (SCF) International Working Group on People of Determination (POds) developed specialized training for law enforcement to better understand and support people with disabilities (PwDs). This training addresses the unique challenges officers may encounter while fostering dignity and trust. This training empowers law enforcement, emergency responders, and caregivers with tools and strategies to enhance preparedness and response for PwDs in emergencies. Participants learn about emergency challenges and accessibility needs.

MoI 5.2

Chair:

Operationalizing a pro-public health lens to service delivery in policing

Convenor: John Versluis, Manager, Community Safety and Well-Being, Peel Regional Police

In alignment with a provincial community safety and well-being mandate, Peel Regional Police (PRP) has adopted a fundamental shift in service delivery to address health and social risk factors contributing to police involvement and sub-optimal community outcomes. The session will focus on transforming service delivery to better support priority populations. This includes the deployment of co-response and non-police mental health teams, the development of an autism strategy to better serve neurodiverse residents, units focused on collaboration with health and social agencies to provide wrap-around supports, and other initiatives to reduce police involvement and increase connectivity to community-based services.

Is it time for a New 1^st Responder Role?

Convenor: Amy C Watson, Professor, School of Social Work, Wayne State University

We propose the development of a new first responder professional role, the Community Behavioral Health Crisis Responder (CBHCR).  To begin operationalizing this idea, we convened a group of experts; conducted key informant interviews with people with expertise related to crisis services, emergency response, and law enforcement; and held focus groups with people working as crisis/alternative responders, people who use crisis services, and their family members.  This information was used to develop the values, competencies, and skills for CBHCRs. We are now cross-walking this with trainings from existing alternative response programs and developing a training and credentialling process for CBHCRs that is not premised on other professions, academic degrees, or traditional clinical licensure. As a 4th branch of first response, CBHCRs will have a professional identity and a credentialling process that ensures the competency and skills needed for the work.

MoI 5.3

Chair:

Assessing autistic women’s experiences of interactions with professional services after experiences of interpersonal violence             

Convenor: Carrie Ballantyne, Reader in Psychology, University of the West of Scotland

Autistic women are more likely to be victims of interpersonal violence (IPV) with rates 2-3 times higher than the general population. However, reporting rates remain low, with autistic people being more likely to have had previous post-crime negative experiences with healthcare and police professionals. Using photovoice, experiences of autistic women, who have experienced and reported IPV to the police, will be explored to identify support mechanisms to transfer of care between CJS and healthcare services.

Mapping the Margins: Addressing Racialized Disparities in Justice through Inclusive, Trauma-Informed Victim Response

Convenor: Nela Kalpic, National Victim Rights Advocate, State Director at Marsy’s Law for Wisconsin

Marginalization based on race, culture, or systematic neglect creates deep inequities in both justice and health systems. Culturally specific and racialized communities often navigate systems not built with their experiences in mind. To explore how an equity – centred, trauma informed mapping model can identify systematic gaps and promote more inclusive, collaborative responses for marginalized victims of crime. Using fictionalized but realistic scenarios, the mapping model engages cross sector stakeholders to follow a victim’s journey – highlighting barriers, access points and missed opportunities across justice and health systems.

MoI 5.4

Chair:

Preventing Drowning Through Partnerships in Canada’s Capital Region

Convenor: Sean Duffy, Ottawa Drowning Prevention Coalition (Lifesaving Society, Ottawa Police Service, Ottawa Paramedic Service)

The mission of the Ottawa Drowning Prevention Coalition is to prevent the incidence of fatal and non-fatal drowning and other water-related injuries in Canada’s Capital Region. Since 2002, the ODPC has brought together stakeholders from law enforcement, public health, hospitals, government entities and community based organizations to address to drowning problem locally through multi-sectoral collaboration and community engagement. Built on the Canadian Drowning Prevention Coalition Framework, this presentation will explore the ODPC’s model and implementation in Ottawa-Gatineau over the past 20+ years to address the drowning problem from a multisectoral lens and demonstrating the benefits of a partnership between LE, PH and other community stakeholders.

Reducing Road Trauma through Road Policing: Strengthening Collaboration Between Research and Frontline Policing

Convenor: Levi Anderson, Research Associate, University of the Sunshine Coast

This session will highlight how collaborative efforts between researchers and frontline police enhance primary prevention efforts in road safety. By incorporating general deterrence strategies, real-time identification of emerging risks, and evidence-informed enforcement, police play a crucial role in shaping road use culture, policy development, and long-term risk reduction. We will discuss real-world examples where research has influenced proactive enforcement, improved police-community relationships, and enhanced road user compliance.