Toronto police board approves $20 million budget increase for 2024
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The Toronto Police Service is asking the city for a nearly $1.2 billion net operating budget for 2024, which it said will allow hundreds of new uniformed officers to be hired.
The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is asking the city for a nearly $1.2 billion net operating budget for 2024, which it said will allow hundreds of new uniformed officers to be hired.
Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw presented his budget proposal during Tuesday’s TPS Board meeting, requesting $1.186 billion – a $20 million increase from the approved 2023 budget.
It was approved by board members, sending it to the city’s budget committee for consideration.
“This is a budget built on a history of fiscal responsibility and constraint that aims to build in sufficient resources required to, at a minimum, maintain degraded service levels and attempt to address the delivery of adequate and effective policing services in the city of Toronto,” Demkiw wrote in his report.
The chief noted that the 2024 budget will be spent on increasing front-line resources to focus on emergency response time, augmenting investigative capacity for timely closure of cases, and improving oversight and accountability through supervision.
“This budget allows the Service to continue the vitally important proactive policing programs and build partnerships with other organizations with the goal of supporting safer communities,” Demkiw wrote.
He also provided a breakdown of where the 307 new uniformed officers will be deployed. About 170 of them will be allocated to emergency response, while 110 will be assigned to investigative roles (Hate Crimes Unit, Provincial Carjacking Task Force and Centralized Fraud Intake Office). Ten will be deployed to digital evidence disclosure, ten others will be added to the motor squad and traffic services, and the remaining seven will be allotted to “various projects.”
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