Q and A: Windsor police Chief Jason Crowley

Windsor Police Chief Jason Crowley seen on CTV News Windsor on Dec. 1, 2025.

Windsor’s new police Chief Jason Crowley talks about his new role in an interview with CTV News Windsor anchor Stefanie Masotti.

Masotti: I understand today is your official first day on the job, and you’ve been doing a transition period so far. How’s it been going?

Crowley: Really well, it’s busy, as you can imagine. But it has been a great week and a lot of support. I think the transition period is people are look forward to that kind of thing and so far so good.

Masotti: OK, so let’s go get straight into it. What are still some of the challenges you see, the Windsor area is still facing that you will be focusing on.

Crowley: Sure. So really we have that mental health addiction, homelessness piece. That is certainly part of the makeup of what we’re going to be dealing with. That’s why we partner with our community partners, our social services, our human health services. We’ve got great partnerships and we’re really kind of starting to move that needle. In those areas, but you also look at the police side of the house or crime. Crime is right now is down people, crime, property, crime. It’s down. So it’s really good. We’ve got some really good initiatives that we’re, you know putting resources to and we’re seeing results. But it’s always going to be a focus of mine crime and then you know partnerships as well.

Masotti: What are some of the things to date that you are really proud of that the force has done today and that you could work on still but things but things that your really proud of so far.

Crowley: I think those partnerships is that’s such a big piece of what we do now. I think Chief Bellaire really stressed that to a point of getting to the point of working with nurses on the street, working with our hospital, Hotel-Dieu Great Healthcare in our crisis response, our nurse police teams with Windsor Regional Hospital. These are the things that so proud of and we’re really relying on data too way more than we ever have. So we still have work to do, no doubt about it, but we’re moving in the right direction.

Masotti: Overall in your tenure, what are some of the major differences that you want to see moving forward?

Crowley: Well we always talk about modernization. So Windsor’s evolving our population is increasing. We have new issues, you know, seems almost by the week sometimes. So as a police service we have to evolve with those issues as well. So modernization of a police service, our deployments how we handle officer wellness that’s that was never talked about when I started you know a long time ago. So that is on the front burner. We are dealing with things that we never had to deal with before. So certainly that those are priorities that I really want to focus on and we’re going to get there.

Masotti: I know you’ve already explained this in your interview process, but how would you define yourself as a leader?

Crowley: Well, I think you know, my leadership style is kind of consistent, I think over the years and I think I’m really more one of those hands in the in the dirt kind of leader. I have learned to delegate a little bit better I think over the years. But I really want to develop a culture of trust, a culture of inclusivity. I really have that relationship, that interpersonal relationship with not only the community, but our members as well. And I think I’ve spent a whole career doing that already. So I think I’m off to the races.

Masotti: Our viewers will be seeing your face a lot more, but overall, any last words you have for the residents in Windsor?

Crowley: Well if there’s one thing that we do, it’s about public safety and the core functions of policing are really what I will be focusing on. So we’re talking about law enforcement and crime prevention and emergency response, those kind of things. We will always partner with the partners in the community to help out and partner. With on the human health services and the social services. But I really want to start focusing more on core values of policing and that’s where we’re talking about public safety.