By Carol Thomson
Mar 17, 2021 5:16 PM
Last year was a difficult one because of the pandemic, but a report to the Saskatoon Board of Police Commissioners tomorrow (Thurs) will show that because some of the Police Service assumptions were proven to be conservative, the tally ended up under budget in 2020 by $914,200. That’s despite the Saskatoon Police Service budget for wages going over by $456,500.
The report says the largest driver for being over budget for wages was overtime, which was $784,600 over budget, but that was offset by staff vacancies and other staff compensation savings. Overtime hours ended up being about 52-hundred more than expected, but the total at 58,064 was still almost 11 per cent below 2019’s hours. Investigative support had the largest number of overtime hours at 10,661, due to higher serious and violent crime occurrences which began in 2019 and carried over into 2020. There were 16 homicides in Saskatoon in 2019.
Despite high cleaning and OT costs, Saskatoon police record surplus
melfortjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from melfortjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Board of Police Commissioners approves request to reduce SPS budget
ckom.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ckom.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.