Kingston Police’s 2023 draft budget has spending increase of 3.5%
There are a number of unexpected expenses the police force has had to bear over the last year, according to the Police Services Board Chair, Jarrod Stearns.
“No one expected to have six murders this year in Kingston, of which the overtime to make sure to get these people off the street is like, immense,” said Stearns. “So that is a current event that would affect the budget from what we thought 2022 would have been. So we say ‘working budget’ but it really is working budget through the whole year.”Even without the new hire, Chief McNeely says the budget increase would come in at 2.74 per cent, still substantially higher than the 1.
“No matter what we do, we are not going to be able to achieve this. So, we need to look after the health and welfare of our members, and we have to have a community response that is community safety oriented for all of our communities. And we can’t do that without extra members,” said McNeely.Story continues below advertisement
Once that approval has been attained, the budget will go to city council for comments, suggestions and approval in February.
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