TORONTO – Toronto Police Association President Mike McCormack says he’s found inaccuracies within the newly released KPMG report, which recommends cost-cutting savings to Toronto Police Services.
McCormack said the recommendations the report puts forward are merely concepts that are not substantiated by numbers.
“There is a lack of information, there is no data, no cost analysis, there is no impact analysis … there is nothing in the report that is shocking or unexpected. We’ve been dealing with all of these issues … for the last five years,” McCormack said.
“The data they have contained in that report is inaccurate and that caused me concern.”
The report says the majority of calls received and dispatched were non-emergency – 12 per cent going to private parking complaints and another four per cent for overtime parking in 2013.
“Police officers, in fact, do not attend parking calls . They are done by civilian parking patrol officers,” McCormack said.
“We have done a call analysis for the same year and saw 82 per cent that police officers attend are either crime related or public disorderly calls.”
The report makes a series of short term and long term suggests that would allow Toronto Police to streamline its operations.
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Short term recommendations include reductions to current operation budgets, like reducing premium pay – or overtime – and temporary deferrals of “non-essential promotions.”
Medium term suggestions consider possibly outsourcing parking enforcement models and court security services.
Long term recommendations suggest outsourcing for HR, IT and finance positions and also recommend a shift in staffing for Toronto Police College from uniform to civilian and from permanent unionized employees to sessional contract instructors in an attempt to modernize its operations.
McCormack added he looks forward to sitting down with the Police board to discuss the “concepts.”
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In November, media reported on leaked details of the report.
Mayor John Tory said the board spent two days reviewing the report in detail.
“I would expect that you are going to see some of those very significant reforms proceeded with,” Tory said Nov. 10.
The board also approved a $27 million budget increase in November which brought the budget to over $1 billion for the first time.
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