This is a look at police costing including issues facing communities in terms of law enforcement.

1. PUBLIC SAFETY – POLICING
– CANADA – NOVEMBER
2017
BY: PAUL YOUNG, CPA, CGA
NOVEMBER 1 , 2017

2. PAUL YOUNG - BIO
• CPA, CGA
• Academia (PF1, FA4 and MS2)
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Emerging Technology
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Business Process Change
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. AGENDA
• Crime Rate / Canada
• # of Police officer per 100,000 population
• Police Costs
• Reforms to Police Act – Ontario (Proposals)
• Switch from local police to either RCMP or OPP or QPP
• Public Safety Budget
• Analytics and Policing

4. CRIME RATE / CANADA
Source - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2017001/article/54842-eng.pdf

5. CRIME RATE / CANADA
Source - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2017001/article/54842-eng.pdf

6. POLICE COSTS / CANADA
Source - https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/police-and-crime-rates-in-canada.pdf

7. POLICE COSTS / CANADA
Source - https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/police-and-crime-rates-in-canada.pdf

8. POLICE COSTS / CANADA
Source - https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/police-and-crime-rates-in-canada.pdf

9. AVERAGE POLICE SALARY – CANADA
Source - https://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Police_Officer/Salary

10. SWITCH TO OPP / MIDLAND
Source - http://www.ourmidland.ca/news/police-service/yet-another-police-service-finds-no-savings-switching-opp-2017-05-18
As our mayor continues the deliberations with the OPP costing committee to determine if there are any savings to
be had in Midland by switching to the OPP, we await the recommendations and subsequent decision by Council.
Just as the failure of Midland Bay Landing was predicted by virtually everyone in the community, we see the
continued waste of tax dollars on consultants to tell us what we learned the night of the OPP quote.
OPP will cost more than our local police and we have to pay millions in severance and disbanding costs, upgrades to
the municipal police building (which was just renovated at our expense) and the extra expenses over and above the
already more expensive quote, just to receive service levels below what we have enjoyed for a century or more.

11. NEW LEGISLATION – POLICING - ONTARIO
Source - http://www.chch.com/policing-law-changes/ or http://www.iheartradio.ca/610cktb/news/wynne-liberals-to-announce-
changes-to-police-services-act-1.3403966
Key areas:
• Oversight Board
• No pay to suspended officers
• Communities can move certain
work done by police to other
departments
What is missing:
• No discussion on arbitration reforms
• No discussion on the cost multiplier for OPP
policing costs
• No discussion on reforming pay/pensions
• No discussion how the oversight board would
be funded

12. AUDITOR-GENERAL OF ONTARIO – OPP COSTING MODEL
• Source - http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/news/12_newsreleases/2012news_3.10.pdf or http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports/en14/409en14.pdf or http://nationmun.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/Minutes/43-%20December%2012/15.6%2020161202%20ENG%20OAPSB%20Zone2_OPP%20Billing%20Model%20Final.pdf

13. PUBLIC SAFETY / FEDERAL
Source - https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/2016-pblc-rpr-trrrst-thrt/2016-pblc-rpr-trrrst-thrt-en.pdf

14. POLICING AND ANALYTICS
• Source - https://www.ibm.com/news/ca/en/2011/06/28/y592236g08258o05.html
TORONTO, ON and VANCOUVER, BC, June 28, 2011—Police in British Columbia are joining an
increasing number of public safety organizations throughout the world who use advanced software
from IBM [NYSE:IBM] to mine, share and extract intelligence from data. Police Records Information
Management Environment for British Columbia (PRIME-BC) has selected IBM analytics software to
improve police investigative and prevention programs and respond to crime and emergency
situations more efficiently.
In its first multi-police jurisdictional implementation, IBM's technology will analyze the more than four
million records in the PRIME-BC records management system used by all of BC's municipal police
departments and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachments. The IBM Entity Analytics
capability will help to eliminate duplicate entries and match partial or intentionally inaccurate
information.
"Establishing accurate identities and understanding relationships between individuals is an
important step in law enforcement," said PRIMECorp General Manager Russell Sanderson. "IBM is
helping us turn data into intelligence to solve and fight crime, and in the process, significantly
increase officer safety and reduce public risk."
Multiple entries on a single individual can lead to fragmented and incomplete intelligence and
potentially dangerous situations, if a query fails to reveal a person's history of violence, mental
health issues, or criminal record due to inconsistencies in the way data such as name or date of
birth was recorded—for example "John Doe" vs. "John B. Doe." Some estimate as many as one in
five records in PRIME-BC's database are duplicate entries.

15. CASE STUDY – MANCHESTER POLICE
Source - https://www-935.ibm.com/industries/government/solutions/analysis-analytics-law-enforcement.html