Toronto zahlt der Polizei außerhalb des Dienstes 100 Dollar pro Stunde für die Überwachung von Baustellen. Einige Stadträte wollen wissen, warum
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/toronto-pays-off-duty-police-100-an-hour-to-oversee-construction-sites-some-councillors-want/article_3705062b-71b0-40af-a76a-e81a3ca4a4ee.html
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It’s paywalled but if I remember correctly the taxpayer isn’t paying for this, the owner of site does, this is a nothingburger article.
Can they do anything more than the elderly security guards I see everywhere else?
If the only thing they are allowed to do is call on duty police this seems like an insane waste of money
Link without paywall: [https://archive.ph/Ltfq7](https://archive.ph/Ltfq7)
You could likely get three security guards for the price of one off duty police officer
We should care because property and construction projects are OUR country. You pay for roads. You pay for infrastructure upgrades. You or your kids want to buy housing. We don’t need to overpay cops to do security work.
That’s a lot of money to stand around and play on your phone.
Obviously no one here does road construction.
From the article:
>It’s “definitely better” to have the officers for work that significantly alters the road network through turn restrictions or lane closures, because they have the power to enforce traffic laws, Browne said.
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>They’re typically requested in cases where construction will create traffic conditions that could require police authority, enforcement capability, or management of complex traffic movements, [according to a report](https://archive.ph/o/Ltfq7/https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2026/au/bgrd/backgroundfile-264714.pdf) that went to the committee. Examples include lane closures, and sites near signalized intersections, school zones or high-pedestrian areas.
This sounds totally reasonable.
A lot of people are hung up on „off-duty“. These aren’t side gigs they’re paid duties, overtime work, it’s only off-duty in the sense that it might not be their regular position.
They make double time working OT on days off, and the business is paying for it, not taxpayers.