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2022 OACP & Blue Line Expo

Join us at OACP & Blue Line Expo

Be a part of Canada's premier law enforcement conference and trade show on October 21, 2022. The event will be held at Paramount EventSpace in Vaughan, ON.

For the first time this year, the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) and Blue Line has partnered together to bring together a national perspective and a provincial focus under one roof.

The OACP & Blue Line Expo will feature sessions curated for all ranks and a trade show floor featuring a wide range...

Special Issues of Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being

The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) partners with the Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) to provide our members with access to outstanding academic resources. The Journal is pleased to announce that a special issue dedicated to the research derived from the Envisaging the Future (EtF) project will be published in the summer of 2022. Published in partnership with the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA) and Guest edited by Prof. Nick Crofts (

Cambridge Centre for EBP Courses

Our partners at the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-based Policing (CCEBP) in Cambridge, U.K. are offering three upcoming courses:

Targeting Serious Violence with Evidenced-Based Policing(August 1-5, 2022)

This course comes with two options, the whole 5 days (analysts and researchers) or just the first three days (police leaders and aspiring leaders). The course is designed to help organizations identify those most likely to be victimized by serious violence. It will teach participants how to use...

National Peace Officer's Memorial Run (#HeroesInLife)

This year’s National Peace Officer’s Memorial Run will take place in Ottawa on Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. and end at Parliament Hill on Saturday, September 24th, 2022, at approximately 3:00 p.m. The run coincides with the annual Canadian Police and Peace Officers’ Memorial Service being held in Ottawa on Sunday, September 25, 2022. 

We encourage all OACP members to support the Run. Please visit www.npomr.org for more information.

New Issue of HQ Magazine - Summer 2022

The new issue of HQ Magazine, the OACP’s official magazine, is now available. You can access it on the OACP website. We are also working on an exciting new development in relation to the magazine, which we will announce shortly. Stay tuned. 

The Summer 2022 edition of HQ Magazine includes articles on: 

• The Benefits of Peacekeeping by RCMP Superintendent Kevin Lamontagne
• Indigenous Policing Today by OACP Director of Government Relations and Communications Jose Luis (Joe) Couto
• The OACP at 70 by Inspector...