Cobourg police chief defends request for 20.5% service budget increase

Cobourg’s police chief is defending a proposed sharp increase to next year’s policing budget.
Chief Paul VandeGraaff says this year’s 20.5 per cent jump is largely a “correction” after last year’s smaller increase of 5.5 per cent, kept relatively low using reserve funds. He says that decision created a shortfall that had to made up this year.