OPP BUDGET AND OPERATING COSTS
$1,847,409,799.99
*Includes all fleet, equipment and fuel costs.
2024/2025 OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET ACTUALS – SALARIES AND BENEFITS
Salaries and benefits comprise a significant proportion of the OPP policing budget, averaging 83% percent as compared to 17% percent for direct operating expenses. This percentage breakdown is consistent with other police agencies in Ontario and Canada and is common to many professions that require the intense use of available human resources to meet their mandates. The OPP does not have direct control over compensation rates for its members. The Crown in the Right of Ontario, represented by the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery, negotiates salaries and benefits with the Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA).
$69.5 million spent on capital projects, including aviation services, facilities repairs, information technology vehicles and specialty equipment, in the 2024/2025 fiscal year.
The OPP Facilities Modernization Phase 3 includes the design and construction of 26 detachments, and 2 regional headquarters. The first stage of implementation involves replacing 12 detachments and one regional headquarters.
In 2024, all sites for these facilities were confirmed, environmental assessments were started and the Duty to Consult process continued.
The second stage of Phase 3 implementation includes 14 detachments and one regional headquarters. Site searches for these facilities and Duty to Consult processes are currently underway.
Detachment Staff
Support Positions and Other Direct Operating Expenses (ODOE)
TOTAL: $428+ MILLION*
No municipalities transitioned to the OPP policing services in 2024.
TOTAL: $8.7+M**
*Based on the estimated policing costs for 2024. Billing model recoveries net of municipal discounts and excluding recoveries for policing services provided to municipalities in a 3+ years transition. **Recoveries for policing services provided to municipalities in a 3+ years transition and not under the billing model.
Note: With the implementation of the Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019 (CSPA) on April 1, 2024, in 2024, OPP-policed municipalities were billed for a portion of detachment and support positions and ODOE according to O.Reg. 267/14 of the Police Services Act before April 1, 2024, and according to O.Reg. 243/23 of the CSPA after CSPA implementation.
Traffic Safety
Investigations
Intelligence
Specialized Response Teams
Auxiliary Policing
Community Safety
Unincorporated Territory
Indigenous Policing
For municipalities that receive municipal policing services from the OPP, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Financial Information Return data analysis historically indicated that OPP policing costs represent approximately 10 per cent of the OPP municipalities’ total annual expenses.
Proactive policing services, such as general and directed patrol, traffic safety, crime prevention, and additional activities such as victim assistance, training and administration.
Calls for service that are typically reactive in nature and require police attendance or investigation, such as assaults, break and enter and mischief calls, drug investigations, provincial statutes offences, mental health incidents, motor vehicle collisions and missing persons occurrences.
Overtime, court security, accommodations/cleaning, enhancements, and prisoner transportation.
Since the implementation of the current billing model in 2015, municipal billing recoveries have increased, on average, one per cent year over year, while the average cost per property has remained relatively stable.
Note: The Ministry of the Solicitor General announced to OPP-policed municipalities that a review of the OPP Cost Recovery Model will be initiated to inform the issuing of the 2026 annual billing statements and the approach going forward. The ministry will be working with a third-party vendor to support an evidence-based review and analysis of the OPP cost recovery model. The Ministry of the Solicitor General will release further details at a later time.
*Estimated for 2024 and actuals for years prior to 2024, billing model recoveries net of municipal discounts, excludes recoveries for policing services provided to municipalities in a 3+ years transition. 2023 reconciled OPP policing cost after the financial relief announced by the Ontario Government on November 29, 2024. **Property count data is provided by Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) on an annual basis. ***Estimated 2024 costs.
In December 2021, the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario (OAGO) released its Value-for-Money Audit: Ontario Provincial Police Report. Themes covered in this report included staffing and deployment, shift scheduling, healthy workplace initiatives, proactive policing targets, patrol hours, response time targets, clearance rates, reporting and internal accountability processes. This report resulted in 14 recommendations with 32 action items for the OPP.
The OPP has been working to implement the recommended action items and, as of January 31, 2025, the OPP has fully implemented 27 of 32.
In 2024, the OPP completed the following action items:
Of the outstanding five action items, one will be fully implemented by December 2025, another by December 2026 and the remaining three by December 2029. The last three action items are contingent on the full provincial roll out of the Service Delivery Model, which is contingent on Treasury Board Secretariat funding.
Recommendation 13 included a commitment from the OPP to complete goal setting based on certain elements of the Canadian Police Performance Metrics Framework (CPPMF) and data derived from Statistics Canada (StatsCan) Crime and Justice statistics for the years 2018 to 2021. The selected CPPMF performance indicators for comparison were the crime rate, crime severity index (CSI), clearance rate, clearance status and police officer strength.
| OPP Benchmark | |
|---|---|
| Crime Rate | 3,864 (violations per 100,000 population) |
| Crime Severity Index | 49.6 (rate/100 baseline but can be higher than 100) |
| Clearance Rate | 48.0 (rate/100) |
| Cleared by Charge (clearance status) |
38.4 (percentage/100) |
| Police Officer Strength | 237.1 (per 100,000 population) |
Note: there may be differences from the statistics reported in the 2023 Annual Report as StatsCan does an annual update going back 2 years. This means some 2022 statistics were updated when 2023 numbers were added. Other statistics are based on data that are dynamic and continually updated.
