Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Chief Hugh Stevenson defends proposed 4.59 per cent police budget hike, despite crime rates trending down
Sault Ste. Marie Police Service is looking to cash in on a proposed 4.59 per cent budget increase for 2023 — despite recent statistics suggesting that crime has been steadily trending downwards in the city over the course of the past year.
“The number of violent offences are on the rise, and they have been for the last five years since I’ve been here,” the police chief told reporters following the open portion of the monthly Police Services Board meeting Thursday. Stevenson told reporters Thursday that homicide investigations in particular are eating up a number of police resources — he used officers guarding police scenes and being present at coroner investigations as a couple of examples of this — which end up being “very expensive.”
In all, nearly $1.2 million in both banked and paid overtime costs were accrued by the police service in 2022.
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