Editing Waterloo, Ontario (section)

===Policing===
[[Waterloo Regional Police Service]], the seventh-largest police service in the province of Ontario, provides general police service in the city of Waterloo.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.wrps.on.ca/en/about-us/about-us.aspx |publisher=Waterloo Regional Police |access-date=7 March 2020 |archive-date=March 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314212741/https://www.wrps.on.ca/en/about-us/about-us.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> The Waterloo Regional Police North Division is located at 45 Columbia Street East, Waterloo. Waterloo Regional Police also serve the municipalities of Kitchener and Cambridge and the Townships of Wellesley, Wilmot, Woolwich and North Dumfries. City of Waterloo bylaws controlling matters such as parking, weeds and noise are enforced by city bylaw enforcement officers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bylaws and enforcement |url=https://www.waterloo.ca/en/living/bylaws-and-enforcement.aspx |website=www.waterloo.ca |publisher=City of Waterloo |access-date=7 March 2020 |language=en |date=4 March 2020 |archive-date=March 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326224755/https://www.waterloo.ca/en/living/bylaws-and-enforcement.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> The two universities each have special constables who are first responders to all emergencies at their respective university campuses. Special Constables may lay charges and/or make arrests under the same legal authority as police officers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Special Constable Service {{!}} Students - Wilfrid Laurier University |url=https://students.wlu.ca/wellness-and-recreation/safety/special-constable-service/index.html |website=students.wlu.ca |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University |access-date=7 March 2020 |archive-date=April 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401171312/https://students.wlu.ca/wellness-and-recreation/safety/special-constable-service/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2019, University of Waterloo Police Service had twenty-four Special Constables.<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Waterloo Police Service 2019 Annual Report |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/police/sites/ca.police/files/uploads/files/2019_annual_report_final.pdf |publisher=University of Waterloo |access-date=7 March 2020 |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131175027/https://uwaterloo.ca/police/sites/ca.police/files/uploads/files/2019_annual_report_final.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rushowy |first1=Kristin |title=No 'cops' on campus: New law says special constables can't be called 'police' |url=https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/no-cops-on-campus-new-law-says-special-constables-can-t-be-called-police/article_a98b6bcb-9797-556f-98e2-be4bcca50480.html |access-date=7 March 2020 |work=Toronto Star |date=2 August 2019 |language=en-CA }}</ref> Wilfrid Laurier University also has a Special Constable Service.
The Ontario Provincial Police patrols provincial highways.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ontario Provincial Police - What we do |url=https://www.opp.ca/index.php?id=121 |website=Ontario Provincial Police |access-date=7 March 2020 |language=en |archive-date=March 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325100019/http://www.opp.ca/index.php?id=121 |url-status=live }}</ref> Two homicides were reported in the Waterloo Region in 2021, neither of which was in the city of Waterloo.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rate of homicides in Waterloo Region 'well below' national average |url=https://www.therecord.com/news/crime/2022/01/18/rate-of-homicides-in-waterloo-region-well-below-national-average.html |website=therecord.com |access-date=13 February 2022 |language=en |date=18 January 2022 |quote=Last year's homicides were reported on Paulander Drive [Kitchener] and Powell Road in Wellesley Township. |archive-date=February 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213225617/https://www.therecord.com/news/crime/2022/01/18/rate-of-homicides-in-waterloo-region-well-below-national-average.html |url-status=live }}</ref>