Toronto’s Mayor John Tory announced Tuesday the Toronto Police Service’s budget request of an additional $48.3 million, which will add 200 police officers to Canada’s biggest city.
If the budget is approved, the 200 new police officers would include 162 officers added to priority response units, with 25 of those officers just for the downtown core. Major case management would gain 22 more officers. The neighbourhood policing program would gain an additional 16 officers to expand the program beyond the 52 neighbourhoods that currently have dedicated community police officers.
