Professional Documents
Culture Documents
STUDY PHASE 1
Two Kanishka/Public Safety funded studies
Qualitative interviews and surveys with young adults (1630) of the Somali diaspora in Edmonton (301
interviews/surveys) and Toronto (118 interviews)
Community participatory approach, community
members involved in data collection and analysis
Broader study looked at:
DISCRIMINATION BY MEMBERS OF
SOCIETY IN EDMONTON
(Note that respondents could indicate multiple members, these percentages
refer to the proportion of responses that included that particular actors, not the
proportion of respondents).
38% Teachers
42% other school
staff
34% co-workers
28% employers
44% members of the
general public
22% police officers
41%
33%
28%
20%
2%
43% Strongly
Agree
36% Agree
16% Neutral/No
opinion
4% Disagree
1% Strongly
Disagree
STUDY PHASE 2
57 in-depths interviews with EPS members across all
ranks and five divisions (excluding South East)
22 questions, interviews between 18 and 92 minutes
23 Constables
8 Sergeants
5 Staff Sergeants
7 Inspectors
6 Superintendents
1 DC
Chief
6 unidentified
KEY THEMES
Knowledge about the Somali community
General emphasis of policing
General thoughts on building relationships with
community members
The role of training
Relationship with the Somali community in Edmonton
Approach to policing radicalization
APPROACH TO POLICING
RADICALIZATION
39 officers had ideas about how to police
radicalization
traditional policing tactics will not detect radicalization and
that infiltrating communities is not an option to learn
about radicalization
Building strong relationships is seen as primary tool
,If we dont have the trust of the community, we have
nothing.
importance of tackling the media
RECOMMENDATIONS
Leveraging Technology and Knowledge
I dont want to bring the EPS into disrepute so when Im dealing with those
cultures or those cultural differences I just really need somebody to say this
is what youre going to do, this is what youre not going to do.
Training Days
RECOMMENDATIONS
More interactions and outreach with young people
Survey data with 301 Somali Canadians, age 16-30
Interested in building stronger partnerships with the police in
Edmonton?
39% strongly
agree
42% Agree
13% Neutral/No
opinion
4% Disagree
2% Strongly
Disagree
RECOMMENDATIONS
Survey data with 301 Somali Canadians, age 16-30
Police are doing everything they can to engage with the Somali
community in Edmonton
11% Strongly
Agree
12% Agree
36% Neutral/No
opinion
24% Disagree
17% Strongly
Disagree
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
Training
Engaging women
Engaging youth
Creating safe spaces
We want a piece of the pie. Were currently not at the
table, were just on the menu.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Implementation of HUB model that has a CVE
component
coordinated, proactive interventions that identify and
attend to risks before incidents occur.