Windsor Police Chief Al Frederick doesn't expect the recommendations from an AMO report on policing services to be adopted any time soon.
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario points to three keys in keeping policing sustainable: reforming arbitration, improving oversight and legislating functions to civilians or other security providers where appropriate.
"If those three priority recommendations are the basis for change, it's going to be very slow or perhaps isn't going to happen at all," says Chief Frederick, commenting on the April report at the police board meeting on Tuesday.
The chief tells BlackburnNews.com regionalizing services would mean better savings than what's offered in the report.
"The municipal model is not cheap, but until there's political will for regionalization, we have to work within the confines of what we have," says Frederick.
AMO issued the report pointing to the need to reform policing to rein in costs.
