The Most Effective Methods That Will Help Stakeholders Achieve Their Goal To Reform And Reduce The Future Budgets Of The Toronto Police Service
Introduction
This paper identified the most effective method(s) that will help stakeholders achieve their goal to reform and reduce the Toronto Police Service’s future budgets and the police inefficiency in interactions with the law. Through research and interviews between civilians and police officers and officials. Following the study, this paper focuses on police interactions with civilians and, more so, the justice system and ways to help the stakeholders achieve their goals.
From the research done, some issues were identified, including the use of modern technology and the standardization of foreign policies. Additionally, several issues point to police inefficiencies and the methods that could be used internally and externally to ensure these policies are suitable for police departments, stakeholders, and the civilian population.
Nonetheless, a survey was conducted, and several difficulties were executed successfully in addressing the issues faced by stakeholders and police officials when it comes to the Toronto police reforms. However, when it comes to police ineffectiveness, the police act terms this as an offense to the respective jurisdiction, such as lack of collaboration between the police, Crown and the stakeholders, unstandardized practice, and unusual use of technology. Nonetheless, if the council could consider traditional reforms, this could bring a detailed police policy on stakeholders and civilians.
Public Engagement
Considering the situation facing the police department in Toronto, we are recommending that all the crucial Service to come forward within 90 days with an inclusive public engagement strategy and broad, a civic engagement that will incorporate all opportunities for individual residents, existing Community Police Liaison and Chief’s Consultative Committees, community agencies and groups, youth workers, and youth from different neighborhoods. Engagement of the public is one way that can ensure stakeholders achieve their goals by presenting their issues in the presence of all committees (Arnold, S., P. Clark, and D. Cooley. 2010).
Engaging with service members
Secondly, after the public’s involvement, the next step is intensive and meaningful engagement with the Service members. They will implement a reformed police policy and, more so, equal opportunity for all parties, that is, the polices, civilians, stakeholders, and service leaders of the civilians.
We also recommend a substantive agreement between the Toronto Police Association and Senior Officers of the involved Organizations. The process of service members’ engagement requires a shred of clear and collective evidence so that a robust and effective agreement can exist between the interested parties.
Change In Police Culture
Culture change is generally the idea of changing the entire fraternity on fresh ways to manage an issue. Most departments in many countries adopt most of their plans from the past. To turn this idea, an agreement between different parties needs to be taken into consideration. For this to happen, the change in police policies needs some time to be effective. However, when it comes to changing the police culture, the public needs to be notified to contribute to the central changes done to favor and consider every person be it the civilians, the police, or even the stakeholders. Additionally, when it comes to culture change, several reforms need to be addressed for specific changes which might be viewed differently in the present era (Hodgkinson, T et al., 2019)
Strengthening police accountability
In our research and consultations from different law departments, there was a conclusive discussion to make when strengthening the officer’s accountability. After in-depth analysis, a conclusion was made by reviewing police and security agencies, which at the moment was being conducted by Mr. Justice Tulloch. Conclusively, both the Police Service and the management board provided input on ensuring the strengthening of all police accountability when dealing with all sorts of issues.
Also, due to accountability reforms, we pinpoint that a mutual reinforcing act needs to be established. New policies are set, and the police should immediately be accountable for peer pressure within the department, for instance, accountability between the police officials and ordinary police officers, accountability between leaders and their respective juniors, and accountability between police policy and stakeholders.
Incorporating these changes would help stakeholders in the industry achieve their targets and, more so, achieve their goals. Police accountability is among the significant police policies that would help the stakeholders achieve their goals and maintain the civilian majority (Buckley, M., 2010)
Investing change
According to Bradley, D., and C. Nixon. 2009, change is one major factor that determines the prosperity of a given system. Once the change has been implemented and successfully executed, then a given system is prone to success. Let’s take an example. From our research, we found that if the council agreed to reduce the police budget by a minimum of $100 million, then the amount could be disbursed in other sectors, which could lead to sustainability affordability.
Today, the police reform act has implemented three years of promoting moratorium and hiring cheaper labor to minimize the entire budget to about $60 million. Additionally, a further $30 million was dedicated to shared services, chain management and alternative activities (Bradley, D., and C. Nixon. 2009)
Conclusion
The greatest challenge lies between an ineffective system and a running system. To make a system better, we require each party from both systems to agree and sort out the significant issues and agendas in creating a new order. As we have just discussed, we need to identify the toxic agendas and replace them with fresh policies. Among the toxic agendas include change of the old police culture. If we need to help stakeholders achieve and hit their targets, then the police traditional culture needs to be replaced with a suitable and favorable policy.
To date, several initiatives have been put into place to help change the police culture and make them more sustainable and intact. Considering the stakeholders and the civilians, these new initiatives are aimed at bringing the police reforms and the justice system closer and favorable to the stakeholders and civilians at large. Nonetheless, these new policies will also be necessary when it comes to identification of the core functions of the new police reform acts. Even though the council voted no to the reduction of Toronto police budget (Cowper, 2012:1), the new initiative is aimed at reducing the budget indirectly.
However, most stakeholders and civilians are frustrated with the fact that the council denied the reduction of the police budget which could be directed to other departments. Nonetheless, the new initiative policies serve as an opening for the frustrated parties since this reforms will be changed.
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