According to the Niagara Independent Newspaper
NRP Chief Fordy requests major Niagara Regional
Government seeking a jump in funding of over 15 per cent Police
Service budget increase for 2025
Niagara Regional Police Service Chief Bill Fordy is pitching
a massive operating budget increase for 2025
The dollar value of Fordy’s requested budget increase for
next year is $28.5 million, which would bring NRPS’s overall operating budget
to just shy of $217 million.
News Alert Niagara expresses deep concern about the easily verifiable changing character and conduct of the Niagara Regional Police Force starting from the Farkus affair.
The attitude of the NRP toward the citizens of Niagara, which has plunged Niagara Citizens liable for $Hundreds of thousands in lawsuits against police predicated on NRP conduct.
The apparent lack of concern for the financial plight of Niagara Taxpayer!
NRP believes that they can remove a journalist from a public meeting for no reason. Evidence of lack of police oversight was the following response from the OIPRD as follows
Section 60(4) s:of the Police Services Act allows the Director to decide not to deal with a complaint if, having regard to all the circumstances, in his opinion, dealing with the complaint is not in the public interest. According to OIPRD Director Stephen Leach, investigating the interception of emails (criminal Code 184) from citizens to their elected officials is not in the public interest!
OIPRD Not Worth the COST!
Observations that caused News Alert Niagara heightened alarm was the NRP attempting to sit in during an (in camera session) of Regional Council.
Witnessing a NRP Sargent state "the NRP has rules, regulations and policies unprinted and unavailable to citizens!"
News Alert Niagara is well aware of the risk involved in attempting to alert Niagara about the intimidating character of the NRP and their penchant to shoot first and duck responsibility later. The duty of the NRP is to control crime, not to intimidate law abiding citizens, not to trespass on private property, not to operate in secrecy like thugs and definitely not to rewrite rules, regulations and laws.
What is even more distressing is the smug attitude of the NRP to make matters worse for the Citizens of Niagara by adding to their cost to the tune of 15.1% or $29Million Dollars when Citizens can't even afford to repair their leaking rooves! News Alert Niagara urges better oversight of the NRP while they still have decent Police Officers that can be counted on!
It gets worse: It is happening under a PC Government!!!
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