Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw is seen during a press conference announcing in May 2023. Demkiw fought for, and received, an additional $12 million for the service's budget. City councillors say they expect he will use that funding to lower emergency response wait times this year.
Toronto police have won a fight with city hall for a budget increase, but councillors and experts say that funding now comes with heightened expectations that they’ll lower response times to emergency calls in the next 12 months.Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw is seen during a press conference in May 2023. Demkiw fought for, and received, an additional $12 million for the service's budget.
Much of the police argument was premised on the need to address 22-minute-long response times to the highest priority emergency calls. Chief Myron Demkiw said the service needs to hire hundreds more officers to address response times. "I think what I will tell you is that we'll be transparent and open about the impact of all those variables on our ability to drive response times down."Here & Now"I do expect change during the course of the year in the right direction," he said. "I do expect the response times to start to come down."When councillors voted to give the police service the additional money, they also adopted a series of requests of Demkiw.
Mayor Olivia Chow reversed course on a plan to give Toronto police a $7.4 million budget increase. Instead, she backed a motion to provide them with their full request of $20 million. Former Toronto mayor and coordinator of the Toronto Police Accountability Coalition, John Sewell, slammed Demkiw for waging the communications campaign for additional funding. It was an improper use of taxpayer-funded resources and designed to stoke public fear, he said.
"With great respect to the police chief, I don't think it is appropriate for the police chief to be engaging in debates over how budgets are formed," Mihevc said. "You do not see that at the national level with the RCMP or the provincial level with the OPP."
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