Police services from eight Ontario municipalities are cracking down on street racing this summer.
Project Erase is a more than two-decade old collaboration between several Greater Toronto Area police services and those of Waterloo Region and Barrie.
Toronto police acting superintendent Matt Moyer says that 1 year ago compared to this time in 2022, Toronto had seen a 31% increase in calls for service related to stunt driving.
Peel deputy police chief Marc Andrews says his force will be patrolling hot-spot locations and relying on other police services’ unmarked vehicle patrols and automatic licence plate readers.
Since the beginning of the year, Toronto officers have laid 521 charges for the offense.
In 2022, in Toronto alone, a total of 1106 stunt driving charges have been made.
Peel Regional Police have laid more than four-thousand stunt driving or street racing charges since 2018.