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Toronto metro police head count reduction of 350 for 2017

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发表于 2017-1-1 08:53:48 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
Been watching lots of Chinese TV series.

Notice that they have Civil vs Armed Police.   Just like N. America Civil vs Criminal law suits.

Is it possible to separate the Metro Police same way.  Civil police will not need arms training or carrying arms, as they will not deal with criminals,  more like traffic, minor domestic issues, burglary investigation ( I had one with 2 cops taking fingerprints, which there were none, writing up reports and no result).

Civil police will definitely paid less and trained less without carrying firearms or video camera for their daily actions.
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发表于 2017-1-3 02:22:12 | 显示全部楼层
What are you talking about? The metro police of which city is reducing their head count by 350? What is the source?
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 楼主| 发表于 2017-1-3 08:23:03 | 显示全部楼层
FuckLikeABoss 发表于 2017-1-3 02:22
What are you talking about? The metro police of which city is reducing their head count by 350? What ...

By Betsy PowellCity Hall Bureau
Thu., Oct. 20, 2016

The Toronto Police Service is asking the city to approve a $1.002 billion operating budget in 2017, two million dollars less than this year’s record budget and halting a more-than-decade-long upward trend.

Mayor John Tory, a member of the civilian police oversight board, called it a “huge accomplishment” because the service found $47.4 million in spending reductions, almost half from a hiring freeze.

“This is the first police budget in the last eleven …that actually shows a reduction in the police service budget,” Tory said Thursday after the board approved the budget request. The proposed spending plan now moves to the city’s budget committee.

The TPS budget request, however, fell short of council’s requested 2.6 per cent reduction, which would mean another $24 million would need to be cut. Last summer, council voted to reduce all city budgets by 2.6 per cent.

“I think we have to look at the glass as being half full instead of otherwise,” because the trendline is going down, Tory responded.

“It’s a beginning, because as we are able to implement the recommendations of the transformational task force and modernize policing…(there are) opportunities for further rationalization and further opportunities to have better policing for less money.”

But the Toronto Police Accountability Coalition was unimpressed. “The case has not been made for why the police should be awarded any funds above and beyond what city council has requested, namely $978.6 million,” former mayor John Sewell wrote in a letter to the board.

The so-called transformational police task force has identified $100 million in reductions and savings over the next three years. The average number of deployed officers is set to drop from 5,072 in 2017 to 4,767 in 2019.

Tory said he would continue to press the province not to withdraw $14.9 million, annual funding tied to a larger complement of officers. The service should not be “penalized” for trying to contain costs with a modernization plan and hiring moratorium, he said.

In its budget document, the service said that since 89 per cent of the budget relates to salaries, “further reduction options simply do not exist.” The salary settlement in last year’s contract – signed by the board and police association - added an extra $17 million to the 2017 budget.

“Furthermore, until current service delivery transitions completely to the new model, further reductions would significantly risk the Chief’s ability to provide adequate and effective policing.”
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发表于 2017-1-4 04:51:31 | 显示全部楼层
Most of the city's budget goes to policing and much of that is wasted. For example the city can hire personnel to direct traffic at a fraction of the cost to hire a uniformed officer.
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 楼主| 发表于 2017-1-4 09:33:49 | 显示全部楼层
rockhardman 发表于 2017-1-4 04:51
Most of the city's budget goes to policing and much of that is wasted. For example the city can hire ...

True.  But police union would not like it.
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