Guelph police shows the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on their calls for service.The report prepared by the service’s research analyst shows decreases and increases in certain calls that were likely caused by the measures put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The province’s COVID-19 database was ‘used as intended’ Guelph police say The effects cannot be connected to the pandemic directly without “strict methodological controls,” the report stated.
But it did add there were no other significant factors that could account for the changes.These include a decrease in home break-ins but an increase in thefts from vehicles.