The Belleville Police Service is receiving $335,475 from Ontario’s Community Safety and Policing Grant program to help fund two projects.
The announcement was made at police headquarters on Sidney Street in Belleville on Thursday.
Provincial funding includes $235,475 to implement a patrol strategy that aligns with the City of Belleville’s 2026-2030 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan while creating a new strategic plan that aligns with planning, training, technological supports, and community collaboration.
“This initiative focuses on officer training, improved deployment through technology, and stronger collaboration across our service,” Deputy Police Chief Sheri Meeks said about the strategy during the announcement of the funding.
“We can enhance the frontline support, implement predictive analytics and advanced mapping tools, anticipate emerging challenges and allocate resources where they are needed most to keep Belleville safe.”
The remaining $100,000 will go towards maintaining a full-time victim services worker embedded within the Belleville Police Service.
“We’ve been fortunate to have a full-time victim services worker embedded within our Belleville Police Service and this grant will continue to support that moving forward, ensuring victims of all different types of offences receive the support and referrals that they need in the community,” Meeks said.
“That partnership has strengthened coordination among the police, our shelters, our health care, housing and mental health providers, creating that wrap-around system of support.”
Deputy Police Chief of the Belleville Police Service Sheri Meeks speaking during an announcement of provincial funding from the Community Safety and Policing Grant program. October 16, 2025. (Photo: Zach McGibbon/Quinte News)
Belleville police have had a victim services worker since 2022, where funding had initially come from the province’s Victim Support Grant.
An application to the Victim Support Grant earlier this year had been denied, leading to a shift in looking for funding to maintain the worker.
“There’s a very rigorous process in terms of the scoring and the criteria that needs to be hit, but they’ve done an incredible job with grant writing in the past several years at BPS which has allowed them to secure a number of different grants over that period of time,” MPP Tyler Allsopp told media when asked about the application process for the Community Safety and Policing Grant.
“Once again, they were great applications, clearly needed by the community, and we’re very happy to be able to support them.”
Allsopp says the Community Safety and Policing Grant is something that will have to be applied for again each year, saying he will be voicing his support for that grant.
When it comes to the patrol strategy, Allsopp says it is something that is not only fiscally responsible but also better for the community.
“I think it’s a great thing that they’re doing, you know, and follows on a series of different technological innovations that we’ve had here, whether it’s the body-worn cameras, whether it’s the Taser program, whether it’s the virtual-reality training that they have here, they’ve really embraced technology as a way to improve the policing locally, and has paid dividends already,” Allsopp said.
Bay of Quinte MPP Tyler Allsopp announcing provincial funding from the Community Safety and Policing Grant program. October 16, 2025. (Photo: Zach McGibbon/Quinte News)
