Making Sense of the Police Services Board Budget Scandal

Sault Ste. Marie Police Service and its governing board have finally faced a reckoning. There are two reasons why we shouldn’t be surprised.First, signs of a looming budget crisis had been accumulating for a long time. For years, the SSMPS Board would consistently present budgeting with vast amounts of overtime costs due to staffing pressures. While the board is now relatively open about the number of officers off duty, this problem didn’t come out of nowhere.According to the board,