Ontario municipalities and OPP face rising policing costs

Obscenely high and unsustainable policing costs. OPP bills are destroying communities its officers are supposed to protect. Apparent self-interest is cloaked in the guise of public safety needs. Where is the political outrage while OPP costs continue to climb? Who is going to bring policing costs in this province under control?

Ontario municipalities and OPP face rising policing costs

Postby Thomas » Sun Feb 23, 2014 8:13 am

LONDON, Ont. — Response times are fine, crime is plummeting and the service provided is good, mayors of the 324 communities policed by the Ontario Provincial Police agree — but there’s a big problem.

The cost is killing them.

As municipalities wrestle with increasingly unmanageable police budgets, the issue — brought to a head with the recently announced 8.55% raise for 6,300 OPP officers — has reached a breaking point in some rural communities.

Mayors of municipalities that switched to OPP to save money on administration and equipment updates — dozens have traded in local forces during the past two decades — say their towns are scraping by to pay the bills.

Told they must pay anyway, they want change.

And they have suggestions: Pull policing out of the municipal budget or give municipalities a say.

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