Holding line on pay increases

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?

Holding line on pay increases

Postby Thomas » Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:37 am

Holding line on pay increases only way to keep policing affordable

Soaring policing costs are turning into a political hot potato.

In a column last week, I reported how the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) was becoming chippy with the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) over complaints that policing costs are becoming unsustainable for small towns and municipalities.

With police salaries soaring every year, homeowners are increasingly under pressure as their property taxes rise.

While the police chiefs are concerned about the quality of policing, one point they want to make is that they’re not responsible for negotiating the lucrative contracts that now allow for a three-year OPP constable to make $92,000 a year — with a healthy pension.

“The general public makes the assumption that the chiefs are responsible for those collective agreements — and they’re not,” OACP executive director Ron Bain said in a recent phone interview.

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