Investing In a Safer City
The Edmonton Police Foundation facilitates and supports programs that aim to make our city safer and assist our Edmonton Police Service in their continuous strive for excellence.
Community Programs
By connecting community with police, and police with community, our programs foster partnerships and create opportunities for public and police to work together for safer communities.
Edmonton Police Foundation Funding Pillars
The Edmonton Police Foundation (EPF) strives to shape a safer, more connected community through three essential pillars:
1. Fostering Positive Relationships Between Police and the Community:
The EPF is committed to building strong, trust-based relationships between police officers and the communities they serve. By supporting engagement initiatives, youth programs, and community events, the foundation ensures that officers are seen not just as police officers, but as vital, approachable members of the community. These programs encourage open dialogue, mutual understanding, and collaborative problem-solving, helping to break down barriers and build bridges of trust and respect.
2. Equipment and Technology to Promote Safety:
In an ever-evolving world, community safety involves embracing advanced technology and equipment. The EPF plays a crucial role in equipping the Edmonton Police Service with the latest tools and technologies necessary for effective policing. These investments ensure that officers are well-prepared to protect and serve the community efficiently and safely.
3. Community Well-being with a Focus on Officer Wellness:
Recognizing that the well-being of police officers directly influences the safety of the communities they serve, the EPF places a strong emphasis on the health and wellness of its officers. By supporting fitness programs, mental health resources, and wellness initiatives, EPF ensures that officers are physically and mentally prepared to face the challenges of their demanding roles. Healthy, well-supported officers are more resilient, focused, and capable of delivering the level of service and protection that Edmonton’s community deserves.
Accelerators
We need to design smarter, more effective and forward-thinking solutions to community problems that will make significant progress and deliver meaningful outcomes. This means doing things differently, engaging the right partners, and infusing innovation and technology into the fabric of what we do.
The CSA is an innovative accelerator platform for problem-solving and opportunity seeking approaches that leverages skills, data, knowledge and expertise from multiple sources, agencies and individuals to work collectively to generate solutions to challenges that have been collectively identified by the community, social agencies, healthcare and law-enforcement. Solutions will come in the form of new evidence and understandings via data integration and analysis, and/or via the adoption of new technologies that solve community/social problems.
In Sept 2021, the Edmonton Police Foundation partnered with Alchemist to launch a new social impact accelerator named the Community Safety and Wellness Accelerator. This new offering combines entrepreneurship, data, AI/ML, community agencies, domain expertise, first customers, funding, mentorship, a proven accelerator program and much more to deliver scalable solutions to help address our community’s most challenging opportunities.
Be a Part Of The Solution
Together, we can advance excellence and transform community policing in ways that will have a direct and positive and measurable impact on the safety and quality of life of people who live, work and play in the Edmonton community.
If you have ideas for community engagement, or would like to find out more information about any of our programs please contact us.
