Police Week 2025

Your Police Services: Helping Build Safer Communities

WHEREAS National Police Week began in 1970 as a way for the police to connect withtheir communities and to increase awareness about the services they provide; and

WHEREAS Police services across Ontario and Nationwide celebrate Police Weekannually, to honour and thank the work that front-line police officers, 9-1-1communicators, civilian staff, and all members of Ontario police services do to keep people safe and healthy; and

WHEREAS the Smiths Falls Police Service has provided excellent, professional andfriendly policing to the residents of Smiths Falls since 1887; and

WHEREAS the role and objectives of the Smiths Falls Police Service in our communityinclude deterring criminal activity, improving road safety, ensuring critical incident/majorevent & emergency preparedness, protecting vulnerable members of the community,developing partnerships that focus on prevention, and increasing public education.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that I, Shawn Pankow, Mayor of the Town ofSmiths Falls, do hereby proclaim the week of May 11th - 17th, 2025, as Police Week inThe Town of Smiths Falls.