OPP Budget and Operating Costs
$2,015,462,500
Includes all fleet, equipment and fuel costs.
OPP Actuals for Operating Expenses were $1,910.3M compared to the Budget of $1,910.5M.
2025/2026 Operating and Capital Budget Actuals -
Salaries and Benefits
Salaries and Benefits comprise a significant proportion of the OPP Operating Budget at approximately 82%, compared to 18% 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 and Procurement, negotiates salaries and benefits with the Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA).
OPP Actuals for Capital Assets (including Other Costs) were $104.2 million, compared to the Budget of $105.0M. Capital Projects for the fiscal year included aviation, facilities, information technology, land fleet, marine, and specialty equipment.
The OPP Facilities Modernization Phase 3 includes the design and construction of 25 detachments, and 2 regional headquarters.
The first stage of implementation involves replacing 11 detachments and one regional headquarters.
Detachment Staff
Support Positions and Other Direct Operating Expenses (ODOE)
Total: $446+ MILLION*
No municipalities transitioned to the OPP policing services in 2025.
TOTAL: $5.6+M**
*Based on the estimated policing costs for 2025. Billing model recoveries, after ministry financial relief, net of municipal discounts and excluding recoveries for policing services provided to municipalities in a 3+ years transition.
**Recoveries, after ministry financial relief, for policing services provided to municipalities in a 3+ years transition and not under the billing model.
Note: In 2025, OPP-policed municipalities were billed for a portion of detachment and support positions and ODOE according to O.Reg. 413/23 of the Community Safety and Policing Act (CSPA).
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 historically increased, on average, one per cent year over year. However, because of the most recent OPP collective agreement and a three-year salary rate catch up, the 2025 estimated costs reflected the largest year-over-year increase, with an 16.4% increase over the 2024 estimates. Municipalities also experienced larger than typical 2023 year-end reconciliation adjustments on their 2025 statements.
In response to this increase, the Ministry of the Solicitor General provided municipalities with $77+M in financial relief on the total 2025 payable amounts. The ministry also announced that a review of the OPP Cost Recovery Model would be initiated to inform the issuing of the 2026 annual billing statements and the approach going forward. The ministry collaborated with a third-party vendor to support an evidence-based review and analysis of the OPP cost recovery model. In September 2025, the Ministry of the Solicitor General announced the conclusion of their review. Amendments to O. Reg. 413/23 under the CPSA included a one-time 11 per cent cap on the increase in policing costs owed by municipalities for the 2026 calendar year, and a change to the discounts table, introducing a lower eligibility threshold for municipalities to receive a discount.
*Estimated for 2025 and actuals for years prior to 2025, billing model recoveries net of municipal discounts, excludes recoveries for policing services provided to municipalities in a 3+ years transition. 2024 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 2025 costs after ministry financial relief.
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 December 2025, the OPP has fully implemented 29 of 32 action items. The implementation status of these recommended actions remains subject to OAGO's independent assessment through its Five-Year Follow-Up process, which is currently underway. The remaining three will be implemented by December 2029. These 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) |
This year, OPP data is being reported alongside the averages for Ontario and Canada to provide context and function as additional points of comparison.
Note: There may be differences from the statistics reported in the 2024 Annual Report as Statistics Canada does an annual update going back two years. This means some 2023 statistics were updated when 2024 numbers were added. Additionally, 2024 averages at the provincial and national levels were not available for some indicators at the time of this report, however OPP statistics have still been included.
