Good to see the trampling of civil rights can be paid for with such savings!
Final expenses haven’t been factored in yet, but Toronto police should be “way under” the $124.8-million budget it received to cover security during June’s G20 Summit, Chief Bill Blair said on Thursday.
About 60% of the budget was allotted for wages, meals and accommodation for 5,400 police officers, while equipment and infrastructure — including a $3.5-million price tag for a prisoner processing centre — accounted for the remaining 40%, the head of the Toronto police force told a parliamentary committee on government operations.
“The final numbers haven’t been tallied, but I’m expected to be way under budget,” Chief Blair said, calling his force’s budgeting processes “transparent.”
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