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Many towns and cities crossed northeastern Ontario have their oculus connected Sault Ste. Marie, arsenic that metropolis considers a power to provincial police.
Sault constabulary national president 'pretty confident' assembly won't spell with provincial police
CBC News
· Posted: May 14, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago
Many towns and cities crossed northeastern Ontario have their oculus connected Sault Ste. Marie, arsenic that metropolis considers a power to provincial police.
Sault city assembly asked this week for a study detailing however overmuch it mightiness prevention if it disbanded its metropolis constabulary unit and hired the OPP.
Several tiny towns crossed the portion person made that determination implicit the years.
Wawa swapped its section constabulary for the OPP successful 2011, hoping to prevention hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
But Mayor Melanie Pilon says costs person been rising sharply successful caller years, with an archetypal 68 per cent summation for 2025 softened by one-time backing from the provincial government.
"Policing is precise expensive, but it's thing that each assemblage needs to person and that's wherefore it's a overmuch larger speech that we request to have, astir however the state tin instrumentality connected the lion's stock of these costs," said Pilon.
The West Nipissing constabulary service was disbanded successful 2019 erstwhile the municipality hired the OPP.
Mayor Kathleen Thorne Rochon says truthful acold it's been cheaper for taxpayers and the savings allowed them to physique a caller constabulary station.
"You know, erstwhile you're moving an autarkic enactment with conscionable 20 officers, everything's a batch much expensive. We bash find that truthful acold the modulation has been large for us."
Thorne Rochon says she is disquieted astir the "significant" summation successful the policing measure this past year.
West Nipissing was 1 of respective towns that got a assistance from the state to screen the difference, but she says she does "worry" astir however overmuch protecting the assemblage volition outgo successful 2026.
Josh Teresinski, the president of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Association, says he's not acrophobic astir metropolis council's plans to research what it would outgo to power to the OPP.
"I'm beauteous confident," helium said.
"I don't privation to accidental 100 per cent but, erstwhile you look astatine conscionable the numbers close disconnected the bat with the corporate statement and the benefits, your starting constituent with officers and civilian unit goes up close astatine the beginning."
The relation represents 68 civilian employees and 168 constabulary officers.
Teresinski says if the metropolis were to disband the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service and motion an statement with the OPP, it would beryllium the civilian members who would beryllium astatine the top hazard of losing their jobs.
"Our section dispatch, they whitethorn transportation them over, but they'd person to determination retired of the Sault to North Bay, arsenic I judge that is wherever their dispatch is," helium said.
Teresinski says helium understands the councillors' information to find savings by perchance switching to different constabulary service, but helium says those costs should beryllium akin erstwhile the accounting is done.
"I'm excited to spot what their costing is and I'm beauteous assured that it's going to beryllium astir the aforesaid outgo arsenic agelong arsenic they're unfastened and transparent astir what the nationalist is going to get," helium said.
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