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Toronto Police Services Board Launches Transformational Task Force

TORONTO, Ontario – The Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) announced, today, the formation of a new “Transformational Task Force”.

Consisting of a panel of community members and police experts, the task force will guide the transformation of policing in Toronto, with a focus on modernizing operations and containing costs, said the TPSB, in a release, today.

The Transformational Task Force will examine recommendations related to the long-term reform of how policing is delivered in Toronto, and report to the TPSB by June 2016, with a recommended path for implementation. A full implementation plan will be delivered by the end of 2016.

TPSB Chair, Andy Pringle. Photo credit: TPSB.

TPSB Chair, Andy Pringle. Photo credit: TPSB.

“We have to do more than contain the growing cost of policing. This task force will examine all elements of police operations in Toronto and propose bold, responsible measures that will give officers the right tools to do their jobs, while increasing efficiency and building public trust,” said TPSB Chair, Andy Pringle.

As part of its mandate, the task force will study the recommendations, prepared for the TPSB by KPMG in 2015, as well as other recommended reforms from a variety of independent bodies. The group will look for sustainable savings in both operating and capital budgets, and introduce a new intelligence-led model for police service delivery that places communities at its core and optimizes the use of resources and technology.

Co-chaired by Andy Pringle and Toronto Police Service (TPS) Chief Mark Saunders, it is made up of six members drawn from across the TPS and six community members, including co-chair Andy Pringle, and: Jeff Griffiths, former City of Toronto Auditor General, from 2002-2014; David Soknacki, former City Councillor, Chair of the Budget Committee, from 2003-2006, and President and founder of Ecom Trading Corporation; Michelle DiEmanuele, President and Chief Executive Officer of Trillium Health Partners, former Associate Secretary of Cabinet and Deputy Minister in the Ontario Government; Ken Jeffers, Member of the TPSB and former Manager of Access & Diversity at the City of Toronto; Sevaun Palvetzian, CEO at CivicAction and former Director in the Ontario Government.

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