peel regional police case study transcript
DATE – 2026.10.01
Mobilizz Inc. | Peel Regional Police Case Study Video Transcript
Runtime 4 minutes 8 seconds
Speakers
Mark Figueiredo Director, Materials Management, Peel Regional Police
Lauren Jackson Deputy Chief and CAO, Peel Regional Police
Chris Candy Partner and VP of Business Development, Mobilizz
Claudiu Preda Supervisor, Fleet Acquisition and Support, Peel Regional Police
Shelley Thompson Superintendent and Chair of the Safe Driving Committee, Peel Regional Police
Full transcript
00:11 Mark Figueiredo
Peel Regional Police is the second-largest municipal police service in Ontario and third-largest in Canada, and operations rely very heavily on our fleet.
00:18 Lauren Jackson
Being able to have fleet that are well equipped and deployable to where public safety needs are required is essential.
00:26 Mark Figueiredo
Peel Regional Police manages 1,100 vehicles, and keeping a fleet of that size healthy is a major undertaking. And that’s where telematics has become essential for us.
00:35 Lauren Jackson
With respect to fleet telematics, it wasn’t a question of, “Why should we do this?” It was more, “Why wouldn’t we do this?”
00:41 Mark Figueiredo
Before the telematics, we really had limited visibility on the driving behaviours of our officers. We relied on the officers entering the odometer every time they fuelled at our fuel pumps. As you can imagine, with manual entry, there’s the chance of bad data.
00:54 Mark Figueiredo
So I was attending a conference, and I came across the Geotab booth, and my eyes lit up. I realized that that was the path for me to get the data I needed.
01:03 Mark Figueiredo
When we were evaluating Geotab, our eventual Geotab partner, Mobilizz, offered to give us 20 free devices for 90 days.
01:12 Chris Candy
So, using those 20 pilot vehicles, we really pinpointed just one or two key areas. Those devices showed us that our average marked patrol unit was idling about 45 minutes a day. We understand that the vehicle is the officer’s, essentially, office. There’s required idling, and then there’s unnecessary idling.
01:31 Mark Figueiredo
So Mobilizz, our partner, showed us that if we could reduce that 45 minutes by 11 minutes a day, the device would pay for itself. We developed some reports using Geotab data, and the results were incredible. In 2025 alone, we saved 100,000 litres of fuel.
01:48 Lauren Jackson
Having a mission-ready fleet is absolutely foundational to public safety.
01:58 Mark Figueiredo
When our vehicles are healthy, our officers are safer, and the community benefits because we are able to respond faster. It’s that simple.
02:05 Claudiu Preda
Every morning, we review what we call our state-of-the-nation fleet health report. The report consolidates critical diagnostic information from across the fleet and highlights vehicles requiring immediate attention.
02:17 Claudiu Preda
The vehicle is then assessed by our in-house maintenance team, who can quickly determine whether it can be safely returned to service or require further repair. This allowed us to reallocate resources and ensure that we are ahead of anything that comes to our shop.
02:32 Chris Candy
When you’re operating a fleet of 1,000-plus vehicles, understanding what’s getting used, when, and how is very difficult. The utilization data in Geotab was eye-opening. We were able to see that many of our marked patrol units were not moving a significant number of days during the month. And what it showed us is that we had too many marked patrol units.
02:52 Chris Candy
In this case, it allowed us to redeploy underutilized vehicles. But what that did is free up funds that could be redeployed within capital. We were able to redeploy $2 million that was originally earmarked for marked patrol vehicles to other capital priorities. That was a huge win for the organization.
03:10 Lauren Jackson
Having data and being able to be transparent are principles of modern-day policing.
03:18 Shelley Thompson
The importance of receiving the data is really to help us make informed decisions, have conversations that were based on fact as opposed to assumptions. With our Police Service Board and our elected officials, it allowed us to provide more transparency to ensure that they have a clear understanding of how we use those dollars wisely.
03:38 Shelley Thompson
Our vision, which has been said time and time again, is that we’re the most innovative, progressive and inclusive police service in Canada. Some would say the galaxy that we’re striving for. But at the end of the day, we have a duty to ensure that, at the end of every shift, our officers go home safe. And we also have a duty to our community to make sure that we are ensuring their safe.