The Toronto Police Service defended spending more than $300,000 producing a podcast at Wednesday’s budget deliberations, arguing there is “a great amount of interest publicly” around their work.
The service was granted a $48.3 million budgetary increase for 2023, representing a 4.3 per cent jump over the operating budget from 2022.
When the proposal was first introduced, it was specified that it would be used to hire more community safety officers and bolster emergency response core staffing.
“The vast majority of it, that’s is where it’s going,” a TPS spokesperson said, adding that their in-house communications team is not seeing a net budgetary increase. TPS was also asked how they could justify such a large budget increase when they are spending $300,000 on a podcast. The request comes afterIn response, the spokesperson said that“I think we can all agree that there's a great amount of interest publicly around our cases, around the work we do,” she said., adding that many of the podcasts get over 10,000 impression views cumulatively.
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