Our 2010 Annual Report is now published online. You can read it at http://www.police.midland.on.ca/files/2010%20Annual%20Report.pdf or visit our annual reports page to review past reports.

Effective MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH, 2011 our records service hours are:

Monday – Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (excluding statutory holidays)

• Police Criminal Record Checks
• Police Information Checks
• Police Vulnerable Sector Checks
• Taxi Driver Licences
• Civil Fingerprints

Take notice that persons currently parking their vehicles overnight on the property of the Midland Court House – located at 609 Yonge Street Midland, that those vehicles are in contravention of the posted signs prohibiting overnight parking and that this is private property.

The Police Services Board meets monthly and include briefings by the Chief of Police about enforcement, statistics, major incidents, community service initiatives and comparisons to past years.

You can download these reports in a PDF format below:

The Ministry of Transportation for Ontario has published a comprehensive article on this and is available at the following URL: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/vehicle/emerging/index.shtml

We have covered some of it below.

What is a power-assisted bicycle?

Is the internet a safe place for your kids to play unsupervised?

Absolutely not.

The internet is a wonderful evolving resource but is completely beyond local control, has no auditing for accuracy and without the addition of user-applied software or hardware, completely without any form of content filtering.

The Midland Police will be taking two Safety Patrollers from Midland to the Annual CAA Safety Patrol Leadership Camp held in Oshawa. From July 15 to July 18 Safety Patrollers from the South Central Region will be taking part in team building exercises, as well as training for School Bus Patrollers and School Foot Patrollers. On Friday, July 18, there will be awards presented.

Common Highway Traffic Act Charges

CHARGEDEMERIT POINTS

Failing to remain at the scene of an accident7 points
Speeding-exceeding limit by 50 km/h or more
6 points
Speeding-exceeding limit by 30 km/h but no more
than 49 km/h
4 points

As part of the Midland Police Services Board's business plan development, we took to the streets to ask our community a simple question and recorded their answers.

What is the biggest problem facing our youth today?

Here is what they said.

It has only been a couple of weeks since our 2007 bicycle auction and our recovered lost or stolen bike rack is starting to fill up again!

There can be only a few of reasons for this.

1. People don't know their bike has been lost or stolen