KPMG report touts cost-cutting ways to modernize policing
Posted December 10, 2015 10:08 pm.
Last Updated December 17, 2015 5:56 am.
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A KPMG report is touting numerous cost-cutting measures to curtail blossoming police budgets and modernize policing in Toronto.
The study, which came with a $200,000 price-tag, was commissioned by the Toronto Police Services Board.
It was released to the public on Thursday.
The report calls for cost-cutting changes like temporarily reducing overtime for officers, halting all non-essential promotions, and outsourcing parking and court security.
(Read the full report below)
It also recommends a change to shift scheduling to create more organizational flexibility and reducing the number of cruisers on the street by adopting a community-based operating model with more officers out of cars.
“This is a real reset button in policing,” said Coun. Shelley Caroll. “Every Canadian city needs to do that.”
Toronto Police Association President Mike McCormack didn’t think there was much to work with.
“It’s a document that contains nothing more than concepts,” he said.
Mayor John Tory released the following statement:
“We all have a responsibility to keep Toronto safe and to do so in as cost effective way as possible. This report gives us ideas on how we can do both and I look forward to continue consideration of this report with an open mind.”
The report also suggests that 89 per cent of calls police are dispatched to are not serious in nature, amounting to a poor use of money and resources.
The board will meet to discuss the findings on December 17th.
Click here for the report or read it below.
