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- Get a Background Check
- Criminal Record Check
- Judicial Matters Check
- Vulnerable Sector Check
- Request Your Police Reports
- Freedom of Information Request
- Request a Paid Duty Officer
- Bicycle Registration
- Business with Toronto Police
- Parking Services
- Collision Reporting
- Towing
- Report illegal parking
- Resource Centre
- Form Centre
- Understanding Alarm Response
- Victim & Witness Resources
- Attempt/Threaten Suicide Information on CPIC
- Photograph & Fingerprint Destruction
- Vulnerable Persons Registry

- Services
- Get a Background Check
- Criminal Record Check
- Judicial Matters Check
- Vulnerable Sector Check
- Request Your Police Reports
- Freedom of Information Request
- Request a Paid Duty Officer
- Bicycle Registration
- Business with Toronto Police
- Parking Services
- Collision Reporting
- Towing
- Report illegal parking
- Resource Centre
- Form Centre
- Understanding Alarm Response
- Victim & Witness Resources
- Attempt/Threaten Suicide Information on CPIC
- Photograph & Fingerprint Destruction
- Vulnerable Persons Registry
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Community
- Missing & Missed Implementation Team
- Missing Persons Investigations
- Hate-Motivated Crime
- Community Partnerships & Engagement
- Equity, Inclusion & Human Rights
- Know Your Rights
- Body-Worn Cameras
- Mental Health
- Victim & Witness Resources
- Sexual Assault Survivors
- Human Trafficking
- Road Safety
- Cannabis Legalization
- Avoiding Parking Tickets
In-Person Services Have Resumed
We are pleased to announce that the Information Access Counter at Toronto Police Headquarters (40 College St.) has reopened to the public effective March 21, 2022. Our hours of operation are from 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
Phones are staffed on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Headquarters Drop Box for completed Vulnerable Sector Applications (and any required payment) is open from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday.
Applications will be accepted at the Information Access Counter for:
Criminal Record Checks – Level 1 | Criminal Record and Judicial Matters Checks – Level 2 | Collision/Accident Reports | General Occurrence Reports | Lost or Stolen Passports | Name Change | Pardon/Record Suspension
Appointments will not be available for Vulnerable Sector Checks.
Pick up options are not available at this time.
Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit
Working proactively to improve access for Aboriginal community members to policing services
- Toronto Police Service
- Organizational Chart
- Community Safety Command
- Field Services
- Community Partnerships & Engagement Unit
- Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit
- Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit
- Auxiliary Program
- Adult & Youth Volunteer Program
- Community Engagement
- Community Police Academy
- Community-School Liaison Officer / School Engagement Team
- Consultative Committees
- Crime Prevention
- Focus Toronto
- Kids, Cops & Computers Programs
- LGBTQ2S Community
- Lockdown/Threat Assessment
- Mobile Crisis Intervention Team
- Neighbourhood Community Officer Program
- Troop Program
- Victim-Witness
- Vulnerable Persons
- Youth Pre-Charge Diversion Program
- Youth In Policing Initiative
- 22 Division Toronto Police Service Rover Crew Program
Some of the estimated 85,000 Aboriginal residents of Toronto, and a portion of those who come here from other First Nations communities, sometimes experience difficulty dealing with life in a large urban setting. Over time, it became clear that the police did not understand the historical and cultural barriers that prevented Aboriginal people from interacting more positively with police. The result was that Aboriginal community members did not benefit from the full range of police services routinely available to the community at large.
In 1989, an Aboriginal officer with extensive professional and volunteer involvement with his community was assigned to support the Aboriginal community on a full-time basis. The role evolved and expanded and in September 1992, the Toronto Police Services Board approved the establishment of the Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit (APU). The Toronto Police Service became the first major urban police service in Canada to establish a unit to deal specifically with the issues faced by the Aboriginal community.
Over the years, members of the unit have established a rapport with the community and have dispelled much of the negativism which had existed previously. Through formal and casual contact with community members, Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit officers have worked diligently to gain the trust of the community. The result of this outreach is a two-way educational process by which the community learns about policing services and officers become better informed on Aboriginal customs, traditions, values, historic events, and modes of behaviour.
The Aboriginal Liaison Officer ensures that lines of open communications are established and maintained between the police and community agencies and attends meetings, seminars and workshops to provide consultation and education on police procedures, the role of the police, individual rights and other legal issues.
A constructive dialogue and information-sharing process exists with other police services serving the Aboriginal communities in Ontario and across Canada. The Service also maintains an Aboriginal Community Consultative Committee. Members of the community who sit on the committee work with a Staff Superintendent and a member of the Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit to discuss issues of mutual concern in an atmosphere of trust and understanding.
Contact Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit
Key Contacts
Const. Monica Rutledge
Aboriginal Liaison
