Joseph Matthews

Lead the following sub-units

- Strategic Planning and Governance

- Strategic Projects

- Audit and Quality Assurance

- Missing and Missed Project Team

- Youth In Policing Initiative

Lead the implementation of the Missing and Missed 151 recommendations.

Facilitated the co-development, co-design, and co-implementation strategy with community members.

Inspector in 13 Division

- Led and managed the policing operations within the divisional boundary

- Directly reported to the District Commander

Officer in Charge of the following units/staff (total staff: 7 Staff Sergeants, 29 Sergeants, 115 Constables, 8 Civilian Staff)

- Firearms Enforcement Unit

- Mandate: Investigation of firearms trafficking/importation

- Firearm Investigative and Analysis Unit

- Mandate: Testing of all seized crime guns, provide expert testimony in relation to nomenclature and firearm identification

- Major Project Section

- Mandate: To disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations utilizing Part VI legislation

- Street Teams

- Mandate: To proactively target offenders in possession of firearms by conducting surveillance, executing search warrants and arresting/prosecuting same

- Shooting Teams

- Mandate: To reactively investigative shootings (except homicide) across the City of Toronto (approximately 500 shooting investigations per year

- Gang Analysis Unit

- Mandate: Gather gang information/intelligence and work with Intelligence Services to disseminate same

- Auto Squad

- Mandate: support investigators with the identification of 'traps' in vehicles secreting contraband, and assisting technical investigators with the installation of technical devices

- Joint Forces Operations:

- Provincial Biker Enforcement Unit (hosted by the Ontario Provincial Police): Investigating Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

- Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (hosted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police): Investigating Traditional Organized Crime Groups

- Asian Organized Crime Task Force (hosted by Toronto Police Service): investigating organized crime groups - participants: York Regional Police, Peel Regional Police and the Ontario Provincial Police)s

2nd in Charge Intelligence Services

Oversaw the following units: (total staffing: 9 Staff Sergeants, 27 Sergeants, 112 Constables, and 77 civilians)

- Mobile Support Services

- Mandate: To support criminal investigations by providing physical and photographic surveillance

- Computer Cyber Crime Section

- Mandate: To provide online investigative support for all members of the Service by using technology while guided by Service Governance, Federal, Provincial, and Municipal law

- Covert Operations

- Mandate: Responsible for the development, debriefing, management and assessment of confidential sources. The section also facilitates training of officers, and offers guidance in the management and debriefing of confidential sources

- Operations Section

- Mandate: Gather information on Organized Crime Groups, facilitate the intelligence cycle, provide timely reports all with the goal of informing decision makers in relation to resource deployment

- Security Section

- Mandate: Responsible for matters pertaining to terrorism; protective services and the assessment of threats to mandated persons; and, for intelligence gathering associated to hate crime and criminal extremism. The five primary functions are: protective services, hate crime investigations, criminal extremism, counter terrorism, international assistance.

- Strategic Assessment and Analysis Section

- Mandate: Intake and assessment of information, data control (ACIIS, GangNet, and Super G), and research and strategic intelligence analysis

- Technical Investigations Group

- consists of the following sub-units

- Project Liason (support the Service in relation to Part VI investigations)

- Intelligence Systems Support (manages, administers and provides training for in-house Intelligence Systems.)Staffing:

- Special Installations Team / Special Entry Team / Covert Access and Intrusion Team (support the Service in relation to covert installations/entries)

- Technical Crime Unit (forensic electronic data recovery and analysis)

- Undercover Operations

- Mandate: overseeing undercover operations to ensure compiance with the Lawful Justification provisions of the Criminal Code and other applicable statues as per the nature of the investigation undertaken

- Witness Assistance and Relocation Program

- Mandate: to facilitate the relocation of witnesses and assiting with concealing their identities.

During this period I was responsible for the Covert Operations Section of the Toronto Police Service.

The sub-units include:

- Undercover Operations

- Witness Assessment and Relocation Plan

- Covert Operations - Source Management

Uniform Staff Sergeant 12 Division

- Supervised/lead for front line policing platoon in a neighbourhood that experienced a disproportionate amount of gun/gang violence

Seconded during the implementation phase of the Police and Community Engagement Review (PACER).

Project PACER focused on how the Toronto Police Service can enhance public trust and safety, while delivering bias free service.

In total, the report identified 31 recommendations which, with implementation, will provide officers with better supports and protection in doing their job, while providing the community with service that will be fair and bias free. Particularly, the recommendations address:

- public accountability

- governance

- community consultation

- professional standards

- human resources

- performance management

- information management

- operational improvements

- intelligence-led policing

- corporate communications

- project management

During this time I led a team of 10 which was responsible for coordinating the implementation of the 31 recommendations.

Staff Sergeant - Professional Standards Investigative Unit

During this period I was responsible for investigating criminal complaints against police officers.

Sergeant - Hold Up Squad

During this period I was the lead investigator in relation to retail business robberies, home invasion robberies involving firearms or offensive weapons, and armoured vehicle robberies.

During my time in the Hold Up Squad I was the lead investigator in excess of 100 robbery investigations.

Seconded to the New York Police Department - Intelligence Division as a liaison officer

- duties included but not limited to collating, classifying and sharing intelligence information between Service's

Assigned to the newly formed Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (commonly known as T.A.V.I.S.)

- lead a team of 16 constables for high visibility policing in vulnerable neighbourhoods

Uniform patrol sergeant in 12 Division.

Assigned to three separate drug investigative teams during this period

- Central Field Command - Road boss/team leader for street level drug enforcement

- Northwest Command - Road boss/team leader for street level drug enforcement

- Major Project Section (Dragons) - Part VI affiant

Assigned to the 13 Division Street Crime Unit

- investigator in the street crime unit; investigating gangs and youth crimes.
- during this time I was the defacto gang expert with the Toronto Police Service. I developed the recruit training curriculum as it related to youth/gang violence and presented same to recruits for approximately 4 years. I delivered in excess of 100 presentations in relation to gang trends to thousands of police officers. In 1999 I represented the Toronto Police Service at the first National Forum on Street Violence and presented a 'Toronto Perspective' to hundreds of police officers and community members as well as the Solicitor General of Canada.

- uniform constable