{"id":25450,"date":"2019-11-05T04:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=25450"},"modified":"2019-11-05T04:45:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T09:45:59","slug":"ontario-marks-crime-prevention-week-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/ontario-marks-crime-prevention-week-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Marks Crime Prevention Week 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ontario marks Crime Prevention Week 2019, the government is reminding citizens about how they can help prevent crime, while also urging them to stay vigilant and be cautious of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the police work hard to prevent crime and protect the people of Ontario each and every day, crime prevention does not rest on their shoulders alone. Everyone has a role when it comes to community safety,&#8221; said Sylvia Jones, Solicitor General. &#8220;Crime Prevention Week provides an opportunity to increase awareness about how each of us can help prevent crime and keep ourselves and our communities safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the recent increase in reports of telephone scams across the province, people can help protect themselves, their family, friends and neighbours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Take strict measures to keep personal information confidential and never share details like credit card, bank account numbers, or any other payment information over the phone or text.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Use caution when clicking on links sent to you via text when coming from unknown senders.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Have conversations with friends and family who are more vulnerable and possibly most at risk to fraud, such as elderly adults or teens.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>If a suspicious call is received, hang up right away and contact your local police to report it. You may also contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t respond to text messages from numbers that are not complete cell phone numbers or without verifying who the sender is.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t call a phone number texted to you from an unknown person.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Use caution on free offers or notifications of winning a prize. If the offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We are proud that Ontario communities are among the safest in the world, but community safety and well-being takes hard work and collaboration. That&#8217;s why our police organizations work with the Government of Ontario, community organizations and businesses to promote Crime Prevention Week across the province,&#8221; said Chief Paul Pedersen, President, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. &#8220;Together, we are preventing crimes and protecting people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crime Prevention Week takes place November 3 to 9. Police services across the province will be hosting events to help raise awareness and keep people safe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dd You Know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Crime Prevention Week takes place each year during the first full week of November.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This year\u2019s theme is \u201cPreventing Crime, Protecting People\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The week-long promotion of crime prevention is supported by the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Ministry of the Solicitor General and police services across the province.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ontario marks Crime Prevention Week 2019, the government is reminding citizens about how they can help prevent crime, while also urging them to stay vigilant and be cautious of fraud. &#8220;While the police work hard to prevent crime and protect the people of Ontario each and every day, crime prevention does not rest on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-17 04:09:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25451,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25450\/revisions\/25451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}