Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Police budget battle looming / The toronto Star., 24 Jan 2005

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1106522706423&call_pageid=970599119419
Catherine Porter
"The police budget costs Toronto taxpayers more than the fire service, public health, parks and recreation, roads and traffic lights combined. But the Police Board Chair is taking a different tack. "Ninety-three per cent of the budget is untouchable?" she says, incredulously. "That's nonsense." She plans to find savings there, not by cutting staff but by reorganizing how they work. Here are some of her ideas."