Calgary Police Service’s 2024 year in review [Video]

Police Chief Mark Neufeld sat down with CTV News Calgary’s Jefferson Humphreys to look back at the city police force’s 2024, as well as ahead to its 2025.

Topics covered include gang activity in the city, downtown safety, the force’s relationship with the province and the handling of an increasing number of protests.

This interview has been edited for length:

Humphreys: I wonder if we can start today with gang activity? … Has anything significant evolved over 2024 around that?

Neufeld: We’ve made some good progress here in 2024. We talked last year about the focus around offenders and the fact that we had 1,000 or 1,100 people in Calgary that were involved in the lifestyle … and the way we were focused on dangerous people, dangerous locations and dangerous activities.

This year, as of today, we’re sitting with 69 shootings. … I think last year when we sat down for this interview, we were at about …