{"id":621502,"date":"2026-04-22T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621502\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:38:08","slug":"29-police-chases-last-year-in-mississauga-and-brampton-marks-increase-from-2024-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621502\/","title":{"rendered":"29 police chases last year in Mississauga and Brampton marks increase from 2024: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suspected law breakers and more serious alleged criminals seemed more in the mood to flee in their cars from police in Mississauga and Brampton during the final three months of 2025 than at any other point during the year, a new report from Peel Regional Police shows.<\/p>\n

Of 29 police chases last year in Peel, 11 took place in October through December, according to a 2025 Year-End Review of police pursuits to be presented to the Peel Police Service Board at its meeting Friday morning in Brampton. The board is the civilian body that oversees Peel Regional Police.<\/p>\n

The report further identified seven pursuits that took place January through March of 2025, five April through June and six police chases occurring last July through end of September.<\/p>\n

In tracking each pursuit, Peel police record various details in each incident including length of chase (both distance and time elapsed), any injuries involved, circumstances that prompted the pursuit and high speeds reached by the suspect vehicle.<\/p>\n

197 km\/h speed reached in one police chase<\/p>\n

The highest such speed reached in any police chase in Peel in 2025 was 197 km\/h during an Oct. 13 pursuit that began at a gas station in Brampton and wound up on Highway 407. A pickup truck had \u201cforcibly removed an automated teller machine from the gas station kiosk using a strap\u201d before fleeing the scene with officers in pursuit, the report noted. Due to the dangerous high speeds, police called off the chase.<\/p>\n

Other high speeds reached by fleeing vehicles last year included estimates of 180 km\/h, 170 km\/h, 150 km\/h and 148 km\/h, according to the police numbers.<\/p>\n

Of the 29 pursuits, 17 involved suspect vehicles fleeing police at speeds of 100 km\/h or less.<\/p>\n

Number of police chases up from 2024<\/p>\n

The number of police chases in 2025 marked an increase of six from the previous year, when 23 police pursuits were recorded<\/a> in Peel in 2024. That 2024 figure was the fewest number since 2017, when 15 pursuits were counted across the region\u2019s two large cities.<\/p>\n

By further comparison, there were 33 pursuits involving Peel police in 2023, 26 in 2022, 28 in 2021, 32 in 2020, 29 in 2019 and a high of 40 in 2018, police numbers show.<\/p>\n

The latest Peel police pursuit report noted the average number of annual chases over the last nine years is 28.5, putting the 2025 number pretty much on mark.<\/p>\n

Once again, most of the police pursuits involved suspected impaired drivers. Of the 29 pursuits in 2025, 11 were taken up by officers giving chase to suspected impaired drivers while seven were in response to stolen vehicles or the attempt to steal vehicles, Peel police brass said in the report. Other reasons given for pursuits included possession of firearms, discharge firearms, robbery and break-and-enter, street racing and disturbance.<\/p>\n

More chases took place in Brampton than Mississauga<\/p>\n

Numbers from last year further show that 14 of the police pursuits began\/took place in Brampton while six occurred in Mississauga. The other nine either involved pursuits taking place in both Mississauga and Brampton or chases taken up by Peel police Road Safety Services officers in which the year-end report didn\u2019t specify where the incidents took place.<\/p>\n

The longest police pursuits in 2025 were those of 16, 9.1, 8.6 and eight kilometres (lasting seven, eight, 10 and eight minutes in duration, respectively) while the shortest chases lasted only a matter of moments. Included in the latter were pursuits of 150 metres (lasting 24 seconds), 400 metres (two minutes), 500 metres (20 seconds) and 600 metres (36 seconds).<\/p>\n

Six of the pursuits continued for less than one kilometre, most of those well below that mark.<\/p>\n

No serious injuries in any of the police pursuits<\/p>\n

Of the 29 police pursuits last year, one concluded with an injury to a suspect (head laceration), the report shows. No police officers were injured in any of the chases.<\/p>\n

Peel police Deputy Chief Mark Dapat, who authored the 2025 pursuit review, also noted the report tracks pursuits in which participating police officers were deemed to be either compliant with best practices or non-compliant.<\/p>\n

Of the 29 pursuits, 11 were deemed to be in compliance while 18 were considered non-compliant, the report noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe process provides an opportunity to reinforce existing vehicle pursuit training while providing valuable feedback and verification of training effectiveness and opportunities for the enhancement of training practices,\u201d Dapat wrote in the report. \u201cIn cases where a pursuit is deemed non-compliant, the officer is required to attend a one-day Police Vehicle Operations training session to reinforce vehicle pursuit training and procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n


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