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IncidentMTL is built on City of Montréal open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and on Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census.

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SPVM — Actes criminels

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal / SPVM.

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SPVM — Bilan mensuel sur la criminalité

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal / SPVM. Supplies the monthly report counts for each police sector.

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SPVM — Limite des secteurs de poste de quartier de police

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal / SPVM. Draws the police sector outlines and supplies each sector’s area.

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SIM — Interventions des pompiers

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal / Sécurité incendie de Montréal (SIM).

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Ville de Montréal — Requêtes 311

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal. Supplies the requests about needles to pick up and about homelessness.

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Géobase — Road network

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal. Powers the nearest-intersection lookup on each report and draws the streets on the address and neighbourhood pages’ maps.

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Ville de Montréal — Limites administratives de l’agglomération

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal. Supplies the name and centre of each borough and linked town.

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Ville de Montréal — Quartiers de référence en habitation

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal. Draws the neighbourhood outlines and ties each one to its borough or linked town.

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Ville de Montréal — Adresse ponctuelle

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — Ville de Montréal. Supplies the addresses behind the search and the address pages.

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Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Statistics Canada Open Licence. Supplies the number of residents and dwellings by dissemination block, used for the rates per resident. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population: dissemination block boundary file and Geographic Attribute File (92-⁠151-⁠X), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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Good to know

Position approximate — SPVM moves reports to a nearby intersection for privacy.

Source: Ville de Montréal / SPVM

Exact location as published by the city.

Source: Ville de Montréal / Sécurité incendie de Montréal (SIM)

A 311 request to the City of Montréal, as the city published it — not a confirmed incident.

Source: Ville de Montréal, 311 requests

City of Montréal open data, used under CC BY 4.0, modified and interpreted by IncidentMTL. The City of Montréal does not endorse this site.

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