哈利法克斯委员会投票赞成警察预算

经过a thin margin, councillors voted on Friday in favour of an increased budget for Halifax Regional Police.

这是一个月长期预算建设过程的高潮，了解警察预算的增加12月2％到本周0.4％由于警察局委员会和议员从居民中听到并通过了来回通过支出计划。

On Wednesday, the board voted in favour of Chief Dan Kinsella’s latest request for $384,200 more than the 2021-2022 budget. That figure is designed to include 12 new patrol constables, one new hate crime unit detective constable, one new “member reintegration” constable, one emergency response communicator supervisor, and three part-time emergency response (911) communicators.

Kinsella told councillors on Friday that the increase does not include increased salaries from the new collective agreement between HRM and the union representing police officers. That collective agreement赋予警察在四年内增加10％。对于现有的人员而言，增加的增加是否则的增加，而且没有那些被添加到力量的人。它可以有效地向预算增加100,000美元或更多。

A.virtual meeting在星期五的预算委员会，一些议员挑战了主任及其工作人员，解释了巡逻警员的要求增加如何通过加班预算的相应减少来抵消。

Kinsella曾认为，由于精神疾病，他需要填补未公开的警察留下留下的差距。他花了几个小时在相机中证明这一位置，但在公共场合，许多议员仍然不相信。

During the Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency budget debate,议员投票赞成10个新职位并且通过加班预算的相应减少完全抵消。国家。Sam Austin询问为什么HRP的情况并非如此。但由于HRP一直在加班时比预算更加花费，所以仁丽说没有抵消。

That wasn’t a satisfactory answer.

“We’ve had other departments that come in with these challenges — the fire department, we did a thing with planning and parking enforcement — where, ‘If you give us X, then we can produce Y,'” Austin said.

“我发现它似乎似乎无法在警察局方面答案，”如果你给我更多的官员，这将是加班的影响。我不希望它完全支付自己。但我认为那里会有某种影响，如果那里没有影响，这就是我听到的，那么这对我来说，原来的预算是从非常脱颖而出的攻击。我不是故意粗鲁，但我觉得缺乏严格的严格，在该部门或作为警察委员会。“

Kinsella stuck to what is essentially an emotional argument: officers are off because they’re tired, so if we hire more officers the problem will be solved. And it won over a majority of councillors.

“这不仅仅是钱。这是关于官员的心理健康和支持。他们被跑下来，跑步，“国家。Trish Purdy说。

“There are obviously other issues here that need to be addressed, yes. But right now there is a crisis and so this would help alleviate some of the pressure so that they can start dealing with the other issues like absenteeism and trying to get officers back to work and all the other stuff. When you are in crisis, you can’t really deal with things properly.”

The vote in favour of Kinsella’s updated proposal passed 9-8. Austin, along with Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace and councillors Waye Mason, Lindell Smith, Kathryn Morse, Patty Cuttell, Iona Stoddard, and Cathy Deagle-Gammon voted no. All others voted yes: Mayor Mike Savage, Purdy, and councillors Tony Mancini, Shawn Cleary, Lisa Blackburn, Paul Russell, Tim Outhit, David Hendsbee, and Becky Kent.

While there won’t be any further changes to the police budget, it won’t be finalized until the vote on the overall 2022-2023 HRM budget, scheduled for early April.

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