How many toronto police officers

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Story continues below advertisement. Populations are adjusted to follow policing boundaries. Populations for are not yet available. Represents the actual number of permanent, fully-sworn police officers of all ranks or their full-time equivalents as of May 15, Represents the number of fully-sworn police officer positions that the police department was allowed to fill during the calendar or fiscal year, whether or not that number of officers was hired.

Based on the number of police officers in and populations for Counts include civilian and other personnel e. In the calculation of the CSI, each offence is assigned a weight, derived from average sentences handed down by criminal courts. The more serious the average sentence, the higher the weight for that offence.

As a result, more serious offences have a greater impact on changes in the index. All Criminal Code offences, including traffic offences and other federal statute offences, are included in the CSI. The CSI is not available for police services or detachments with populations less than 1, Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5, should be used with caution.

Criminal incidents can either be cleared by charge or cleared otherwise for example, through diversionary programs and other extrajudicial means in instances where a charge could otherwise be laid.

The weighted clearance rate is based on the same principle used to create the police-reported Crime Severity Index, whereby more serious offences are assigned a higher weight than less serious offences.

Applying this concept to clearance rates means that, for example, the clearance of a homicide, robbery or break and enter receives a higher weight than the clearance of less serious offences such as minor theft, mischief and disturbing the peace.

The weighted clearance rate is not available for police services or detachments with populations less than 1, A decade of disciplinary decisions show that hearing officers have pushed that bar when it comes to the most common kind of misconduct — impaired driving. Discreditable conduct charges for impaired driving made up 20 per cent of all disciplinary cases reviewed by CBC News. Four years ago, the standard discipline imposed for impaired driving started to shift from forfeited days off to reductions in rank from six months up to two years.

Tougher new penalties for impaired driving are among the harshest punishments doled out by the tribunal over a decade in which only eight of the decisions rendered, or three per cent, ordered the dismissal of the police officer. Two of those decisions impacted the same officer. In a statement, the interim president of the Toronto Police Association told CBC News that police are disciplined for "a wide range of misconduct.

Hearing officers at the tribunal rely on a precedent which developed a "usefulness test" to determine whether dismissal is warranted. The test measures usefulness based on the nature and seriousness of the officer's misconduct, the ability to reform the officer and the damage to the reputation of the police service if the officer keeps their job.

In one case, a constable was making his fourth appearance before the tribunal in three years when it was determined the officer was no longer useful after assaulting a handcuffed suspect. Fuelled by coffee, she digs up, researches and writes original investigative and feature stories.

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