What is the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy?
The Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy, or TAVIS for
short, is the plan that the Toronto Police Service is using to reduce violence
and fear in neighbourhoods. The plan uses community mobilization to:
reduce crime and disorder,
make neighbourhoods safer, and
bring neighbours together to keep their neighbourhood safe and liveable.
How does TAVIS work?
Your local division is the frontline of TAVIS; all officers are involved.
Your neighbourhood has been assigned a Neighbourhood Officer. This officer
is now working with people in your neighbourhood to find lasting solutions
to crime and disorder issues.
The Neighbourhood Officer, community members and other service providers
in the neighbourhood are:
identifying crime and disorder issues,
developing strategies to address these issues,
implementing these plans, and
monitoring the effectiveness of the plans.
All officers of the Toronto Police Service, including the four Rapid Response
Teams, the Toronto Drug Squad, the Gun and Gang Task Force, and Intelligence
Services, support the divisions in carrying out the neighbourhood plans.
What is Community Moblization?
For the Toronto Police Service, community mobilization is a way to bring
all the people in your neighbourhood – residents, businesses, community
and government services, and the police – together to plan and carry
out activities that will resolve crime and disorder issues. What that really
means, is that everyone has to commit to work together to improve
your neighbourhood.
