Safe Trade Zones

The Ottawa Police Service Safe Trade designated parking spots designed to support safety when completing trades stemming from online marketplaces and websites or any other type of personal sales.

Websites are often used as tools to sell property and can present a personal safety risk due to the high volume of thefts and robberies that can occur during these transactions. To increase public safety and reduce crime, the OPS invites members of the public to use their designated Safe Trade locations to facilitate these person-to-person exchanges.

Creating Safe Trade parking spaces at OPS stations is about moving transactions away from secluded parking lots or private residences and bringing them into public places.

Safe Trade parking spots are clearly marked by signage and a blue logo to help you identify where to conduct a safe exchange.

Safe Trade locations:

• 466 Metcalfe Street (visitors’ parking lot behind 474 Elgin Street police station)
• 211 Huntmar Drive (Kanata police station)
• 3343 St-Joseph Boulevard (Orleans police station)

Please note that Safe Trade Zones are not monitored 24/7. Persons using the premises for Project Safe Trade are advised that the Ottawa Police Service does not assume any responsibility for any transactions or mediate the use of its premises for this purpose.