Household in the frameworks of the SPVM

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Martin Prud’homme

Laurence Houde-Roy

Wednesday, 17 January, 2018 23:32

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Of the officers of the Montreal police would soon be able to leave their desks to get back on the field, according to the acting chief Martin Prud’homme who wants to review the usefulness of each item as he did on his arrival at the Sûreté du Québec in 2014.

“We must return to the primary mission of the police service, the field. If I can identify management positions, through the structure, and retrieve police to bring them back on the field, this is what I’m going to do. This is my first goal, ” said Martin Prud’homme, introducing the police service budget to the elected officials of the city hall, yesterday.

Mr. Prud’homme, who was appointed last December to succeed the former police chief Philip Pitcher, not afraid to say that he aims for a “reduction in frames” at the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM).

Questioned by an elected official yesterday on the constant increase of the expenses of the SPVM, which is number of $ 647 million for 2018, the acting head ensures that it will look “line by line” to each of the items of the service to assess its suitability.

“The time that at a given time, the structures grow. It is necessary to bring them up to our responsibilities first, the base game : the police work “, has hammered Mr. Prud’homme, saying to have already begun its assessment.

Household to the SQ

Without giving more details on the number of executive positions, it could delete at the SPVM, it indicates that you need more time to complete its analysis which should be done within the one-year mandate entrusted to it by the minister of municipal Affairs of Quebec and the mayor of Montreal in December.

Upon his arrival as head of the Sûreté du Québec, in 2014, Martin Prud’homme had made a cleaning similar to the structure of the high-ranking officers. The organization has grown from five deputy directors general, three -, and 400 officers-executives at nearly 320.

Savings

The transformation of management positions in the positions of police officers could reduce the payroll of the police department, admits Martin Prud’homme, and to make savings in its budget.

“As director of the police service, I have to balance budgets and also to give the best service at the best possible cost to the citizen. So it is normal that it is part of [the reduction in the wage bill] in my assessment, ” said Mr. Prud’homme.

The Brotherhood of police of Montreal says it wants to wait to see the whole plan for the recovery of Mr. Prud’homme before you react.

Fifty cadets already on the building

Photo Antoine Lacroix

The SPVM has already hired a fifty cadets, like the one below to ensure the management of traffic around construction sites.

Fifty cadets additional are already hired by the police service since the autumn to ensure the monitoring of the building instead of the police.

Taxpayers montreal saving $ 6.2 million annually in giving the cadets the management of traffic around construction sites, as had been assured the executive committee of Montreal last summer.

Montrealers will no longer have to pay police officers from the police Service of the City (SPVM) in extra time at $ 60 per hour to manage the traffic, while the cadets will make four times less expensive, either for a salary between 14,64 $ 16,20 $ per hour.

50 more to come

The SPVM confirmed to the Newspaper that these 50 cadets have already started to ensure the management of traffic around construction sites.

The police service aims to hire 100 in total in 2018 to ensure this task.

The hiring of cadets around the building is new and is allowed by the new collective agreement for police officers signed last August.

75 % of the task

Cadets will manage 75 % of the traffic and will not be present on the sites where the monitoring is ” less complicated “, that is to say, where the cadets will not have to intervene with motorists.

The more challenging sites, or 25 %, will remain in the hands of agents of the SPVM.

Annual costs for the management of construction sites

The costs have continued to increase in recent years :

• 2013:$2.6 Million

• 2014:$4.4 Million

• 2015:$8.5 Million

• 2016:$10.4 M

Source : City of Montreal