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Halifax Regional Police Headquarters
1975 Gottingen Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 2H1
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Police headquarters, located at 1975 Gottingen Street, Halifax, is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for these services:

• Ticket withdraws
• Reporting non-dispatchable incidents
• Reporting motor vehicle collisions
• Releasing seized vehicles

Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., the following services are available at the reception desk at police headquarters:

• Criminal record checks
• Vulnerable sector checks
• Fingerprinting
• Ticket withdraws
• Reporting non-dispatchable incidents
• Reporting motor vehicle collisions
• Releasing seized vehicles
• Returning lost and found and seized property

Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., the following services are available at the reception desk at the East Division Office (7 Mellor Avenue, Dartmouth) and West Division Office (15 Convoy Run, Bedford):

• Criminal record checks
• Vulnerable sector checks
• Ticket withdraws
• Reporting non-dispatchable incidents
• Reporting motor vehicle collisions
• Releasing seized vehicles

E-mail general inquiries to: Contact HRP and employment inquiries to: Recruitment. For time-sensitive general inquiries call 902.490.5016.

For requests involving Halifax Regional Police's Extra Duty Program, where officers are hired and paid for by an event organizer, business, contractor, or other client, please email: hrpextraduty@halifax.ca.

For requests involving special events, festivals, parades, races, public gatherings, temporary liquor licences, and other activities that may require coordination with Halifax Regional Police, please email: hrpspecialevents@halifax.ca

Incident Reports cannot be accepted via e-mail. Visit our Online Crime Reporting System to report certain crimes not in-progress such as thefts and property damage.

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Service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Emergency: 911

When immediate action is required: someone's health, safety or property is in jeopardy or a crime is in progress. In-progress is defined as currently happening, the suspect may still be in the area and/or the victim may still be in danger.

Examples: Assaults, robberies, break and enters, fights, gunshots, vehicle accidents with injuries, suspected impaired drivers, someone is in the process of stealing your vehicle.

Please DO NOT call 911 for any non-emergency matters. If you aren’t sure if your situation is a 911 emergency it is best to call and let the experts decide whether help needs to be sent or not. Built-in TTY/TDD for the hearing impaired is available on all 9-1-1 emergency calls.

Non-emergency Dispatch: 902.490.5020 or 902.490.7252 (TTY)

When an officer is required to come to the scene but it's not an emergency.  

Examples: Driving complaints in progress, noise complaints in progress, historical sexual assaults.

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Incident Reports and General Inquiries: 902.490.5016

Filing a report that doesn't require an officer to come to the scene. You can also report online. 

Examples: Theft, thefts from vehicles, mischief/property damage, fraud, lost/found property.

Other inquiries or incidents

Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre: 1.888.495.8501: to report frauds and scams where you haven't been a victim. If you’ve lost money or provided personal information as a result a scam, you should file a report with the Financial Crime Unit by calling 902.490.5016. 

Cybertip.ca: to report online sexual exploitation of children

Detention (prisoner enquiries): 902.490.5023