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Partnerships and Projects Page
Graffiti Eradication Program
Partnerships and Projects
The Graffiti Eradication Program has a guiding coalition of 18 Police Service members who
were selected to spearhead the program into the Division in which they worked. There is a
vibrant partnership with community stakeholders, media person, agency members and local
politicians. The Toronto Crime Stoppers program has been very supportive of deterring
vandalism graffiti and promoting legal graffiti art murals and revitalization projects
(www.222tips.com )
The following is a growing list of ongoing partnerships, as well as projects undertaken:
Partnerships:
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Canada Post www.canadapost.ca
Toronto Crime Stoppers www.222tips.com
Toronto Transit Commission
Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC)
Style In Progress.. www.styleinprogress.ca
ICI paints www.icipaints.ca
PARA Paints
Community Cave – www.communitycave.com
CSI – www.csicommunity.com
Laser Eagles – www.lasereagles.org
Harbourfront Community Centre – Mural transformation..
City of Toronto www.toronto.ca/graffiti/
STD Effekt band – www.myspace.com/thestdeffekt
Local BIA’s: - Harbord Village Residents Association – Michael Heydon
- Harbord Street BIA – Neil Wright
- Liberty Village BIA – Lynn Clay
- Greektown on the Danforth BIA – Faiza R. Ansari
Canada Post
Canada Post started a trial in June 2005, in Montreal, Ottawa,
and Vancouver of a method to discourage tagging on their
boxes. The program uses “box-wrap” (large maple leaves and
other symbols) to decrease the free space available for
tagging. Even tags done over the new wrap are less visible.
Toronto Graffiti Transformation – TPS - draft
-photo by DennisSylvesterHurd
Toronto Transit Commission
The Toronto Transit Commission strongly
supports and is an active participant/partner
in the Toronto Police Service’s ongoing
campaign against graffiti. The Toronto
Transit Commission does not tolerate graffiti
on its property or vehicles. All graffiti is
removed within 24 hours after being reported
to the maintenance section. The
Commission strongly believes that by
immediately cleaning graffiti off its vehicles
and structures the message is
communicated to the public that graffiti will
not be tolerated.
The Toronto Transit Commission has Transit Special Constables in plainclothes and uniform
who are sworn Peace Officers and have the same authority as Toronto Police to enforce the
Criminal Code on all TTC property. The Officers are familiar with the various tags and target
areas where graffiti frequently occurs. They will track a graffiti vandal’s movement through
the damage they leave behind. Where possible, all graffiti reports are accompanied by
photographs of the damage. These photographs are catalogued for future use in the
prosecution of any graffiti vandals that are apprehended. The Toronto Transit Commission
also seeks restitution from the vandals, when the case is before the courts or after, through
the Toronto Transit Commission’s claims department.
The TTC Criminal Investigation Unit has a
Special Constable assigned to the task of
dealing with graffiti reports generated by
Transit Special Constables and other TTC
employees. A Vandal Apprehension program is
also in place for employees who report a graffiti
crime that leads to the subsequent arrest and
conviction of the vandal. The Toronto Transit
Commission also assists other law
enforcement agencies in Ontario with their
graffiti problems through training and sharing
information about graffiti trends and arrested
vandals.
Graffiti vandalism has cost the Toronto Transit Commission millions of dollars over the years
- money needlessly spent because of a few individuals longing for notoriety.
Style in Progress
Style in Progress is a not for profit group that has worked with Scott Mills, the graffiti
coordinator from the 14 division. Style in Progress supports the graffiti subculture in Toronto
and Canada-wide by organizing hip hop events where 30 to 120 graffiti artists can paint
together in areas around the city. These events turn into large scale outdoor art events and
bring visitors and artists from all over the world why transforming the urban space where the
events are held. They serve as a demonstration that the graffiti subculture is not gang
related and the murals left behind are a very uplifting contribution to the neighbourhood.
“SIP” has provided Scott Mills with artists to work on mural projects. We also give
encouragement for more youth graffiti art programs and legal walls for artists to express
themselves.
The canvases done by graff artists at Syle in Progress 2006 were all donated to West
Toronto Collegiate.
ICI Paints
ICI paints has made several donations including 70 gallons of primer for the Broadcast Lane
mural project, 50 gallons for the Richmond St Laneway Revitalization, and countless rollers,
sleeves, handles, trays and brushes
PARA Paints
PARA paints have donated 100 gallons a year, since 2000, to the projects
CAVE - Communities Advancing Valued Environments
CAVE was founded by Arthur Lockhart; currently a professor at Humber College. The
initiative came about as a result of observing the steady deterioration Toronto’s most
beautiful and vibrant neighbourhoods. CAVE has grown into a charitable organization,
which has as an overriding mandate of engaging citizens in ways that support the well being
of a community.
What initiated and continues to sustain CAVE are people voluntarily coming together with a
shared vision and belief in healthy communities. The fundamental view is that great things
happen when people work together.
CAVE’s mission is to engage and empower the community to become involved in creating
and maintaining positive relationships within their communities. We work with members of
the community to develop their skills and confidence as community builders in areas such
as Graffiti Transformation Projects. CAVE is committed to creating and sustaining a
process, which will promote, improve, and sustain the well-being of our urban environment
and communities.
Canadian Student Institute
The Canadian Student Institute for Community Builders (CSI) was initiated by Arthur
Lockhart; a professor of Humber College. The institute is designed to be a student
driven/student centered process, which will deal with a variety of social justice issues,
addressed within the paradigm of community capacity building. The Institute was designed
in a way to encourage students to come together from all 3 levels of the educational
continuum to collaborate, implement, and celebrate youth initiatives that serve to enhance
the well being of schools and neighborhoods. CSI has actively participated in a number of
Graffiti Transformation Projects in the city of Toronto by providing student volunteers that
participate in the transformation of our communities
Laser Eagles
Laser Eagles is a non-profit organization that is directed by Judith Snow; a world leader on
inclusiveness issues for people with disabilities. It is an organization that offers everyone the
opportunity for self-expression and participation, through the creation of art.
Laser Eagles mission is that we will bring people together to passionately reveal all that is in
their hearts and to contribute their creativity and insight to the world.
Laser Eagles has participated in several graffiti transformation projects in the City of
Toronto. Laser Eagle murals can be seen at a number of locations across the city.
Harbourfront Community Centre
The Centre’s Graffiti Transformation Program is an annual community investment program
addressing youth unemployment as well as neighbourhood improvement and revitalization
issues. Youth are hired by local organizations to remove graffiti and resurface the walls with
attractive murals. Since the program's inception in 1996, over 9,000 individual tags have
been removed, over 300 sites have been cleaned and 430 murals have been created. An
estimated 1,276 youth have received paying work as well as training in the technical
aspects of graffiti removal, outdoor art, and business skills.
Harbourfront Community Centre’s Mural Project
In 1997, the Harbourfront Community Centre Mural Project was formed. The focus of the
program is to bring together at-risk youth artists to work as a team designing and rendering
interior and exterior art murals. In addition to further developing their art skills, the youth
develop life skills through workshops on career planning, entrepreneurship, conflict
resolution, work place safety, and goal setting.
The program has provided seasonal employment for over 100 youth and has helped
support their artistic growth. The project has also collaborated/provided art workshops to atrisk children, youth and adults at Seaton House, Youthlink Innercity and at Thorncliffe Park
Public School. To date over 50,000 square feet of public space has been transformed into
landmark pieces of public art.
The program has worked in partnership with several organizations: Cecil Community
Centre, Toronto Police Services (52 and 14 Divisions), and the Yonge Street and
Roncesvalles Business Improvement Areas. The project has been funded by a variety of
different sources: City of Toronto Graffiti Transformation Program; the Government of
Canada’s National Crime Prevention Strategy; Human Resources Development Canada;
City of Toronto Banner and Mural Program; Royal Bank Financial Group and the Toronto
Arts Council.
For more information contact Michael Brown at 416-392-1509, ext. 327.
-Borden alley -before
- Borden Alley after
City of Toronto
Part of the City’s overall Graffiti Abatement initiative is the Graffiti Transformation Program.
This is an annual community investment program addressing youth unemployment as well
as neighbourhood improvement and reviltalization issues. Youth are hired by local
organizations to remove graffiti and resurface the walls with attractive murals. Last year 19
organizations received funding for this from a budget of over $300,000.
Since the program's inception in 1996, over 9,000 individual tags have been removed, over
300 sites have been cleaned and 430 murals have been created. An estimated 1,276 youth
have received paying work as well as training in the technical aspects of graffiti removal,
outdoor art, and business skills.
For more information, contact: Larry King, 416-392-0622,[email protected]
STD Effekt Band
The STD Effekt have played at the Croft
Street, Broadcast Lane, Richmond Street,
and national BIA conference events. They
are a Toronto based trio that plays
improvised music from the very quiet, to the
very loud - from ambient to progressive rock.
Sascha Tukatsch (drums), Tim Langan
(bass), and David Barrett (guitar) make up
the trio that has been created to do what
they can't do anywhere else – experiment
endlessly with an absolutely no holds barred
approach to creating music on the spot, and
recording well, all of it!
- STD Effekt at Croft Street
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Croft Street
Broadcast Lane
Richmond Street
Duplex Park – Cleaning up Graffiti- May 2006
Youth In Policing
GTA Police Services presentation
Croft Street
Croft Street (Bathurst and Harbord area) was transformed in 2005 and 2006 from an
unsightly back alley of graffiti and garbage into a welcome part of the community. The
project started in May 2005, led by resident Michael Heydon, whose property is one of
several with front doors on Croft Street. He invited Michael Brown, a mural artist from the
Harbourfront Community Centre, Scott Sullivan from the City of Toronto Graffiti By-Law
office and Constable Scott Mills, Graffiti Coordinator for 14 Division Toronto Police to speak
about graffiti at a meeting of the Harbord Village Residents Association.
Michael’s idea, along with Scott Mills,
was to reclaim Croft Street for the
residents by a concerted effort to
clean up all the garbage, and cover
over years of accumulated graffiti with
either just primer or with good art
murals. Their plan was to bring
together property owners,
accomplished mural artists, and
aspiring youth – especially those
students from the area.
A number of mural artists from the
group Style in Progress
(www.styleinprogress.ca) donated their time and effort to mentor youth interested in doing
quality art murals. Individual artists, such as Vivana Astudillo and Alisha Caplan added their
murals to the street, as did a group of youths mentored by Michael Heydon.
Youths who were caught doing vandalism graffiti in and around the nearby Central
Technical School school were offered the opportunity to participate in a community clean
up operation instead of being processed through the criminal justice system, and potentially
being excluded from school. They all agreed to participate in the community clean up, and
in addition several other students who were not investigated also volunteered their time and
initiative to the clean up efforts.
Donations of paint and supplies came from Para Paints, ICI Paints, Home Depot, Canadian
Tire, and Honest Ed’s Warehouse, as well as a number of supportive residents.
In the summer of 2006, the Toronto Police Service partnered with the Ministry of Children
and Youth Services to offer a summer employment program to 100 youth from at risk
neighborhoods in Toronto. Ten of these students have worked diligently with 14 Division
officers in the laneway to complete the project in the summer of 2006.
Two other groups also joined the team. Community CAVE is a new initiative designed to
mobilize communities to do exactly what has occurred on Croft St. They have been key
contacts in the brokering of paint and supply donations, as well as encouraging volunteers .
In addition, Community CAVE brought in the Laser Eagles. These are artists who have
cerebral palsy, so paint by using lasers strapped to their heads to direct an artist.
In total there have been over 100 youth involved in the revitalization of Croft St in the past
two years. The support from residents has been overwhelming. The goal of empowering
the youth, and having them have some face to face ownership of the neighbourhood has
been successful.
However, even thought the cleanup was a great success, the process continues with
regular maintenance of the laneway. Zero-tolerance is still enforced, with offending tags
being removed and murals maintained as needed. In addition, several artists are still looking
for the chance to add their work to a garage door, as part of the transformation.
Broadcast Lane
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On April 14 and 15 Broadcast Lane (in
Cabbagetown) underwent a makeover.
While not as badly tagged as some other
city areas, the residents saw the
importance of addressing the problem
before it got worse. Like many back alleys,
graffiti had been joined by garbage and
vagrants, and new infill projects were
being added that now used the alley for
their front door. There was a need to not
only clean the area, but to build a stronger
sense of community.
- initial priming
In March of 2006 Const. Scott Mills and the Division 51 Community Response Unit met with
local residents , City bylaw officers, mural artists from Harbourfront Community Centre, a
representative from Youth Services, and members of Community CAVE, a community
building group, to describe the steps needed and results to be expected.
The residents, led by Sascha
Tukatsch, then planned for the event
on April 14 and 15 – the first day was
for cleanup and priming, the second
for mural arts. The enthusiastic team –
at times 30 people strong – was further
inspired by music from a local
resident’s band – The STD Effekt.
One mural featured the logo of the
Toronto Oxmen, a PeeWee Football
team supported and coached by
Division 51 officers.
- Oxmen mural
ICI paint generously donated primer
and brushes for the event, and over $400 in donations paid for spray paint.
Richmond Street
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On Saturday October 28 and Sunday October 29 an alley in the Richmond St area, rife
with tags, garbage, and drug dealers, was transformed into a clean and welcoming part of
the community.
The laneway, east of Bathurst south of Queen St W (behind The Big Bop) is now clean and
full of colourful urban art. Now the main visitors are tourists with their cameras, and it has
even been used as a back drop on the CBC Rick Mercer Report “rant”.
The project was initiated by city councilor Martin Silva in partnership with 14 Division
Toronto Police Service and the local Queen St W/Richmond St W residents to address
community complaints about disorderly conduct and vandalism.
Youth volunteers and artists from several area high schools and community programs
assisted community members to beautify
their laneway. The goal of the project is to
engage youth and graffiti artists and
property owners in the community building
process, thus fostering respect for the
property of the local residents.
Saturday was a day for painting over tags
and cleaning up all the garbage that had
accumulated. On Sunday, 20 local graffiti
artists working with legal permission from
the property owners, beautified the
laneway with their contemporary art work.
The graffiti artists were organized by local
artists KALE and MATR.
This event was assisted by the community building efforts of www.communitycave.com in
conjunction with numerous community partners. Fifty gallons of paint and supplies were
donated by ICI Paints from the local Glidden Store. Special thanks to Stephenson Rental,
Starbucks Coffee and Janet Moniz on behalf of the local residents.
Cleaning up Graffiti – Duplex parkette – May 2006
It’s ugly, disrespectful, and everywhere.
Graffiti is on the city’s walls, sidewalks and subways, and residents are fed up with it.
That’s why they gathered with city councillors, Toronto police officers and students Friday to
clean it up from one particularly unsightly corner of town, Duplex Parkette.
All it took to make the spot look fresh again – paint, a few brushes and rollers, and some
elbow grease.
It’s the fifth year in a row for the graffiti eradication program, and one officer involved says
it’s making a big difference in beautifying Toronto.
"Imagine 24 football fields laid side by each, covered in graffiti, that's what we reclaimed for
our neighbourhoods," said Toronto Police graffiti eradication coordinator Heinz Kuck.
It took less than half an hour to clean up the parkette, and everyone was pleased with the
results. And police remind residents there’s another way to cut down on the amount of
graffiti in the city – it you see someone vandalizing, report it to the cops.
Youth in Policing
Youth in Policing was formed in the summer of 2006, through the Toronto Police Services in
partnership with the Ministry of Children and Youth Services to offer a summer employment
program to 100 youth from at risk neighborhoods in Toronto.Youth from the program in
Division 14 worked hard during the summer of 2006 on Croft Street, doing 120
properties with murals and paint overs.
Building Legitimacy Page
Building Legitimacy
National BIA Conference – Toronto – March 3rd, 2007.
Keynote lecture topic “Dealing With the Problem of Graffiti, New Initiatives”.
This was initially scheduled as one of several parallel sessions, but signup was so
overwhelming it was moved to the lunch session. Const Scott Mills was joined by various
presenters from Community CAVE, Canadian Student Initiaitve, Style in Progress, and
Laser Eagles. In addition, he had a local youth tagger-turned artists, and a resident from
Ottawa that hopes to introduce a similar program there. During the talks, artists from
Harbourfront Community Centre did a 3x4 foot air brush painting, a slide show ran of
recent transformation project and music was heard from the STD Effekt band. Response
and interest was very favourable from the BIA’s, and at the end of the meeting the
painting was auctioned off for $600
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23 Division appreciation of SICO Paints and volunteers
23 Division Graffiti Eradication Coordinator Sgt Larry Dee, center rear, is assisted by S/Sgt
Mike Pinfold (23 CR) in presenting an appreciation plaque to Amada McKill of SICO paints.
They are all circled by youth volunteers from the Elm Bank Community Center, North Albion
Collegiate Institute and Kipling Collegiate Institute.
Sgt Dee recruited the volunteers in a bid to eradicate youth gang and drug sub-culture
graffiti which covered the Hwy 27/Humber River underpass. The students met on a number
of occasions and designed their own mural, and with paints supplied by SICO, took back the
underpass with a tasteful, multi-cultural styled mural.
All youth volunteers received one of our Services "Respect Certificates" for their courage
and contribution in addressing neighborhood crime and violence with a message of peace
and community spirit.
Building Legitimacy Page
Project T.A.G. (Teens Against Graffiti) achieves new
benchmark!
Project T.A.G. (Teens Against
Graffiti) is a partnership program
involving the Toronto Police
Service, Canada Post and Toronto
youth volunteers. This program
focuses on the clean up of
Toronto's 10,000 Canada Post mail
and relay boxes hit by graffiti tags.
Staff Sergeant Heinz Kuck of 53
CRU is seen here presenting
Forrest Hill Collegiate student
Bronson Sardinha with a Toronto Police Service "Respect Certificate," for having reached a
personal bench mark of cleaning over 200 illegal graffiti tags from Canada Post Mail Boxes
throughout the 53 Division area.
For more information about the T.A.G. program, contact your local Divisional Graffiti
Eradication Program Coordinator, or visit our Graffiti Eradication Program site at
www.TorontoPolice.on.ca
PARA Paints
Presentation to Al Pitman by S/S Heinz Kuck
Photo Gallery Page
Photo Gallery
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Commentary
Solution
Program
Program Recognition
Photo Gallery
Brochure and tools
-wall covered with illegal tags
2006-Cuban man, on back of
YouthLink,by Michael Brown
YouthLink building in Toronto
2005 – Croft St. - before
2005 – Croft St. -during
2005 – Croft St. - after
2006 – Duplex parkette
Brochure Page – <maybe rename as Tools>
Brochure and other tools
<This will include a link to a PDF brochure (I can do a
Word toPDF conversion but I need the original as
Word to play with). Or maybe someone else can do
once we get these pages firmed up.>
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Commentary
Solution
Program
Program Recognition
Photo Gallery
Brochure and tools
• Brochure on combating graffiti (PDF)
• “So you want to do a back-alley makeover!” – a tool kit for
building an event is under development . Info on previous projects, contacts there as
mentors, forms needed from city for permits, funding info, donations, community groups,
sample timeline, how to do kick-off and get buy-in from owners, doing a map of the area
for residents and painters, promo material, having several people as contacts at end of
alley, etc.
• Links to community groups
• Links to City info and forms
• YouTube videos of projects
For further info contact Const Scott Mills at [email protected], 1800-222-TIPS
or
Heinz Kuck
Staff Sergeant
Toronto Police Service
Graffiti Eradication Program Coordinator at

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