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20-537: The service is the largest provider of third-party criminal records checks in Canada. Revenue generated from the checks funds the force's Corporate Services division, which performs the records checks; capital investments in the police service; and local social services. The Town of Cobourg was incorporated out of Hamilton Township in 1837, and a single-officer police force operating out of Victoria Hall had been established by 1898. In 1915, Constable William Rourke suffered

40-584: A fatal heart attack during a violent arrest. He had been employed by the force for 22 years. In 1970, the Canadian Armed Forces determined that the Cobourg Armoury building — a two-storey brick structure that had been built in 1904 a few blocks west of Victoria Hall — was surplus, and turned the structure over to the Town of Cobourg. The building was subsequently turned over to the police force in 1971. In

60-581: A knife and bomb, and he was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2007. In 2018, the Service, Northumberland County OPP, and Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH) established a shared mental health crisis response team which partnered specially-trained OPP and CPS officers with NHH nurses, operating 5 days a week. During the summer of 2022, the Cobourg Police Service provided parking enforcement under contract to neighbouring Hamilton Township. The service

80-540: A lower-tier municipality (if located in a county or regional municipality , i.e. in Southern Ontario ) or single-tier municipality (if located in a district, i.e. in Northern Ontario ). A township municipality may consist of a portion of one or more geographic townships united as a single entity with a single municipal administration. Often rural counties are subdivided into townships. In some places, usually if

100-493: A population of 11,059 living in 4,281 of its 4,685 total private dwellings, a change of 1.1% from its 2016 population of 10,942 . With a land area of 256.03 km (98.85 sq mi), it had a population density of 43.2/km (111.9/sq mi) in 2021. Mother tongue: This Ontario location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Township (Canada) The term township , in Canada ,

120-532: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hamilton Township, Ontario Hamilton Township is a rural township located in Northumberland County in central Ontario . It surrounds the Town of Cobourg . The township was named after Henry Hamilton , Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec from 1782 to 1785. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Hamilton Township had

140-518: Is generally the district or area associated with a town. The specific use of the term to describe political subdivisions has varied by country, usually to describe a local rural or semirural government within the country itself. In Eastern Canada , a township is one form of the subdivision of a county . In Quebec, the term is canton in French. The historic colony of Nova Scotia (present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick , and Prince Edward Island ) used

160-631: The Prairie Provinces and parts of British Columbia , a township is a division of the Dominion Land Survey . Townships are (mostly) 6-by-6-mile (9.7 by 9.7 km) squares, about 36 square miles (93 km ) in area. The townships are not political units (although political boundaries often follow township boundaries) but exist only to define parcels of land relatively simply. Townships are divided into 36 equal 1-by-1-mile (1.6 by 1.6 km) square parcels, known as "sections." In Saskatchewan ,

180-680: The British Conquest, primarily as a surveying unit. They were designated and cover most of the unattributed territory in Eastern Quebec and what is now known as the Eastern Townships and later used in surveying the Outaouais and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean regions. Townships often served as the territorial basis for new municipalities, but township municipalities are no different from other types such as parish or village municipalities. In

200-701: The Canadian flag. Auxiliary constables are supervised by sworn police managers, and do not have an internal rank structure. Auxiliary constables wear baby blue dress shirts, navy blue trousers with no trouser piping, and peaked caps with checkered red bands or ballcaps. Rank slides are identical to those of sworn constables, but are marked with "Auxiliary" lettering above the Canadian flag. Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) Forensic Identification Services (FIS) Human Trafficking Unit Drugs and Intelligence Major Cases Bail/Court Compliance Mental Health Response Court Services This law enforcement agency article

220-540: The early 2000s, various politicians, the Cobourg and Port Hope Police Associations, and the Cobourg Police Services Board advocated for or endorsed studies of the amalgamation of the Cobourg Police Service and neighbouring Port Hope Police Service. In 2003, the Cobourg Police Services Board hired Garry Clement, a former RCMP officer, as the Cobourg Police Service's new chief of police, with a mandate to amalgamate

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240-432: The original historical administrative subdivisions surveyed and established primarily in the 1800s. They are used primarily for geographic purposes, such as land surveying, natural resource exploration and tracking of phenomena such as forest fires or tornados , but are not political entities. Township municipalities, also called "political townships", are areas that have been incorporated with municipal governments, and are

260-730: The ranks of Detective Constable or Detective Sergeant, ranks that are equivalent to Sergeant or Staff Sergeant, respectively. Non-sworn investigators are special constables employed for crime-scene processing and forensic identification services, and are referred to either as scene-of-crime officers (SOCO) or forensic identification specialists. Cobourg Police special constables are divided into two ranks, special constable and special constable supervisor, and wear baby blue dress shirts, navy blue trousers with no trouser piping, and peaked caps with red bands or ballcaps. Rank slides are identical to those of sworn constables, but are marked with "Special Constable" or "Special Constable Supervisor" lettering above

280-439: The service or its officers, and day-to-day policing decisions are the exclusive jurisdiction of the police chief. The board is composed of five members: the mayor (or their designate); one town councillor; one member of the public appointed by town council; and two members of the public appointed by the province. As of 2023, it consists of: Investigative staff fall into two categories, sworn and non-sworn. Sworn investigators hold

300-582: The term township as a subdivision of counties and as a means of attracting settlers to the colony. In Prince Edward Island, the colonial survey of 1764 established 67 townships, known as lots, and 3 royalties, which were grouped into parishes and hence into counties; the townships were geographically and politically the same. In New Brunswick, parishes have taken over as the present-day subdivision of counties, and present-day Nova Scotia uses districts as appropriate. In Ontario , there are both geographic townships and township municipalities. Geographic townships are

320-401: The township is in a county rather than in a regional municipality , the head of a political township may be called a " reeve ", not a mayor. However, the distinction is changing as many rural townships are replacing the title with "mayor" to reduce confusion. A few townships keep both titles and designate "mayor" as the head of the municipal council and use "reeve" to denote the representative to

340-399: The two police forces into one service covering all of West Northumberland, including the Town of Cobourg , Municipality of Port Hope , and Township of Hamilton . Port Hope ultimately elected to maintain its independent police service, and as of 2022, both municipalities continue to maintain individual police forces. In 2004, 18-year old Troy Davey called Cobourg Police claiming to have been

360-412: The upper tier (usually county) council. The term "geographic township" is also used in reference to former political townships that were abolished or superseded as part of municipal government restructuring. In Quebec , townships are called cantons in French and can also be political and geographic, similar to Ontario although the geographic use is not used much or at all. They were introduced after

380-522: The victim of a robbery. While being interviewed by Constable Chris Garrett, Davey pulled out a knife and fatally wounded the lone officer, who managed to shoot Davey in the leg before collapsing. Davey was arrested at the Northumberland Hills Hospital shortly thereafter, where he had sought medical attention for his gunshot wound. It was later determined that Davey had made a hoax call with the intent of ambushing responding police officers with

400-528: Was provided by the force's special constables, and was repeated over the summer of 2023. Like all municipalities in Ontario, the Town of Cobourg maintains a police services board, responsible for overseeing the police service. The board approves the police budget, hires the chief and deputy chiefs of police directly, and is the legal employer of every Cobourg Police employee. Although the board sets overall service policy and direction, it has no operational control over

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