The North Bay Police Chief believes some recent statistics indicate the police service is making a difference.
During Tuesday's Police Board Meeting, the Chief revealed a 7.6 per cent decrease in violent crime from 2022 in comparison to 2021.
Tod believes the COVID lockdown may have had an impact on those numbers in 2021.
"I think many people in the community are out and about regularly now," said Tod.
"Some of our statistics rose in 2019-2020 and early 2021 as a result of the lockdown that occurred and the amount of pedestrian traffic that was not out in our community.
"Now we do see more people out and about, more vehicle traffic, more pedestrian traffic. Students are back in class permanently now and I think a lot of that has to do with the diminishing aspect of crime in our community."
Tod believes the efforts of his officers have something to do with those trends decreasing as well.
"The increase in staff which we have in the North Bay Police Service and a focus on our platoon investigators and our patrol officers dealing quickly with crime issues in our community I think is starting to pay some dividends for us," Tod said.
Tod says violent crime includes homicides, attempted homicides, violent assaults, and domestic assaults.