The proposal stipulates a 3.9 per cent increase for 2020, which would be mean a total budget of $1.076 billion. The proposed 2020 budget is $40.8 million higher than the 2019 budget.

Despite the new initiative, a traffic safety advocate is questioning the number of Toronto police officers being dedicated to the specialized enforcement team.

In a statement Thursday afternoon, a police spokesperson said the goal of the new policy is to "eliminate potential systematic racism."

A statement from the Toronto Police Services Board said this is the second time in 40 years a chief of Toronto police will serve longer than a single term.

Gloria Epstein, a former justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal, said in a statement that expanded terms of reference approved unanimously by the Toronto Police Services Board will give her work a wider perspective.

The Toronto police board announced that they reached agreements with the Toronto Police Association in a news release Saturday afternoon.

"These officers will be embedded. (They) will be part of their neighbourhoods for the next four years. I want the neighbourhoods to get to know the officers and the officers to know the neighbourhoods."

Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Gloria Epstein told the Toronto Police Services Board that she now expects to finish around April 2020.

In April, the Toronto Police Services Board approved increasing the number of operator position and revising shift schedules to tackle staffing shortages and cut wait times.

The announcement comes about three months after Mayor John Tory moved a motion to go ahead with the review, saying there were "troubling questions" in light of the killings for which landscaper Bruce McArthur has been charged.