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Police Chief Charles Bordeleau told a police board finance committee meeting that Ottawa police are now starting to see “relief”on the frontline after hiring 25 new officers.
During discussions about the 2017 draft police budget Wednesday, Bordeleau told councillors concerned with money and staffing that the service will have to assess the impact of new officers in 2019 - after all 75 officers of its three-year hiring plan are on the job - before forecasting whether it will continue to grow.
Police union president Matt Skof, however, said that the force continues to require overtime to meet staffing minimums on patrol, and that what’s being touted as a new uniformed deployment model in January 2017 will only collapse specialized frontline sections to get to adequate staffing on patrol. The result will be less proactive community policing, Skof said.
The 2017 draft budget would see Ottawa police get a budget increase of $8.9 million dollars and staffing is a “key part” of the draft, director general Debra Frazer said.
The force will not increase next year’s overtime budget despite what the union charges is an over-reliance on overtime to meet policing needs.
Police have already blown past 2016’s overtime budget and cited “one-time pressures” to date such as policing a national Hells Angels run by the now-defunct Nomad’s chapter in Carlsbad Springs and time-consuming investigations into 54 shootings and 14 homicides.
The police plan is to “hold the line on overtime” and see if the 50 additional officers that will be hired by the end of 2017, combined with some analysis of job hours, will see that budget balanced.
The force previously forecasted needing 2.4 per cent increase to police the city in 2017. Best estimates from each of the various police units and sections drafted in September suggested needing more than double that previous forecast- a 5.3 per cent increase. The force, however, presented the skeleton of a draft budget built on a 2 per cent tax increase that was in line with Mayor Jim Watson’s cap.
Several councillors attended the public committee meeting, hoping to scrutinize the draft police budget while it’s still being developed. Coun. Diane Deans balked at how the force was able to shave costs that its own people identified as necessary and asked if it was realistic to do so.
Frazer said sections were told to offset their requests and that it was reasonable to ask them to do this.
As expected, the largest chunk of the draft budget will go towards maintaining services and paying officer and civilian salaries. The force has earmarked $259 million, or 81 per cent, of the draft budget towards compensation.
The draft budget includes provisions for the yet unsettled contract for rank-and-file officers. The force hopes to offset the $1.5 million it has budgeted to police events for Canada’s 150th birthday with money from either paid-duty contracts, or funding from the provincial or federal government. Bordeleau said that, if the service can’t recover those costs, it will have to run at a deficit.
The draft budget is scheduled to be tabled by the police board on Oct. 24. It will then go to city council on Nov. 9.
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During discussions about the 2017 draft police budget Wednesday, Bordeleau told councillors concerned with money and staffing that the service will have to assess the impact of new officers in 2019 - after all 75 officers of its three-year hiring plan are on the job - before forecasting whether it will continue to grow.
Police union president Matt Skof, however, said that the force continues to require overtime to meet staffing minimums on patrol, and that what’s being touted as a new uniformed deployment model in January 2017 will only collapse specialized frontline sections to get to adequate staffing on patrol. The result will be less proactive community policing, Skof said.
The 2017 draft budget would see Ottawa police get a budget increase of $8.9 million dollars and staffing is a “key part” of the draft, director general Debra Frazer said.
The force will not increase next year’s overtime budget despite what the union charges is an over-reliance on overtime to meet policing needs.
Police have already blown past 2016’s overtime budget and cited “one-time pressures” to date such as policing a national Hells Angels run by the now-defunct Nomad’s chapter in Carlsbad Springs and time-consuming investigations into 54 shootings and 14 homicides.
The police plan is to “hold the line on overtime” and see if the 50 additional officers that will be hired by the end of 2017, combined with some analysis of job hours, will see that budget balanced.
The force previously forecasted needing 2.4 per cent increase to police the city in 2017. Best estimates from each of the various police units and sections drafted in September suggested needing more than double that previous forecast- a 5.3 per cent increase. The force, however, presented the skeleton of a draft budget built on a 2 per cent tax increase that was in line with Mayor Jim Watson’s cap.
Several councillors attended the public committee meeting, hoping to scrutinize the draft police budget while it’s still being developed. Coun. Diane Deans balked at how the force was able to shave costs that its own people identified as necessary and asked if it was realistic to do so.
Frazer said sections were told to offset their requests and that it was reasonable to ask them to do this.
As expected, the largest chunk of the draft budget will go towards maintaining services and paying officer and civilian salaries. The force has earmarked $259 million, or 81 per cent, of the draft budget towards compensation.
The draft budget includes provisions for the yet unsettled contract for rank-and-file officers. The force hopes to offset the $1.5 million it has budgeted to police events for Canada’s 150th birthday with money from either paid-duty contracts, or funding from the provincial or federal government. Bordeleau said that, if the service can’t recover those costs, it will have to run at a deficit.
The draft budget is scheduled to be tabled by the police board on Oct. 24. It will then go to city council on Nov. 9.
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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