Municipal leaders in Thunder Bay say the city’s ballooning policing costs, which are partially due to implementing recommendations from the 2018 Sinclair Report, can’t be contained without provincial and federal help
THUNDER BAY — Police and municipal leaders say they see no prospect of reining in Thunder Bay’s ballooning policing costs in the foreseeable future, short of expanded funding from provincial or federal governments.
Some of those increased costs were tied to implementing recommendations from the 2018 Sinclair report, though the administrator appointed to oversee the police services board has also found a "very concerning failure" to advance some of its key recommendations. The police report also pointed to rates of opioid-related deaths about four times the provincial average, and high rates of impaired driving.
“Resources have not kept pace with realities and the needs of the community, primarily the continued threat to public safety and community well-being caused by the dramatic increase in substance dependency and its social impact within the city and the region,” he said. “Even if all the stars aligned tomorrow and a crisis centre was built, and we had people getting the services they need … we’re still a generation out before we’re going to see any significant improvements in quality of life for many people in our community.”
“The city basically has a nuclear option of saying, we reject wholesale your budget,” he said. “They cannot go line-by-line and say, we want you to change [this] — it’s just accept or reject.” The city appoints three of the police board’s five members, but one of those seats remains vacant, and the board currently has no decision-making power after the OCPC appointed administrator Malcolm Mercer, citing internal dysfunction.
He said those conversations, and discussions with Taddeo, left him convinced of the need for the proposed increases.
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