January 15, 2025 Board of Police Commissioners

Date:

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: HEMDCC Meeting Space, Main Floor Alderney Landing, 60 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth

Agenda

1. CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

2. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – January 6, 2025 and January 8, 2025

4. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

5. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
6. CALL FOR DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
7. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE

8. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
8.1 Correspondence 
8.2 Petitions
8.3 Presentations – None

9. INFORMATION ITEMS BROUGHT FORWARD – NONE

10. REPORTS/DISCUSSION
10.1 HALIFAX REGIONAL POLICE / ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE HALIFAX REGIONAL DETACHMENT CHIEF UPDATES

10.2 STAFF
10.2.1 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Halifax Regional Detachment (RCMP HRD) 2025/2026 Resource Request: RCMP HRD Recommendation Report [PDF]
Motion: 
That the Board of Police Commissioners for the Halifax Regional Municipality recommend that the HRM Budget Committee support the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Halifax Regional Detachment (RCMP HRD) resource request for additional fourteen (14) regular member positions as part of the budget deliberations for the 2025-2026 operating budget as set out in Attachment 1 of the staff report dated January 8, 2025.

10.2.2 Halifax Regional Police 2025/26 Operating Budget [PDF]
Motion: 
That, having ensured that the proposed Halifax Regional Police Operating Budget for 2025/26 as presented at the December 4, and December 18, 2024, meetings of the Board of Police Commissioners is consistent with those matters referred to in subsection 55(3) of the Police Act, the Board of Police Commissioners moves the following recommendation:

1. That Halifax Regional Council approve the proposed 2025/26 Halifax Regional Police Operating Budget of $101,255,700, which includes a proposed increase in the composition as set out in the Proposed Service Enhancements identified in the 2025/26 Budget Information Package and as presented by Chief MacLean to the Board on December 18, 2024.

11. ADDED ITEMS

12. IN CAMERA (IN PRIVATE) – NONE

13. NOTICES OF MOTION

14. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – February 3, 2025

15. ADJOURNMENT    


INFORMATION ITEMS – NONE


For further information regarding this meeting, please contact Andrea Lovasi-Wood, Legislative Assistant, at lovasia@halifax.ca or 902.240.7164.

To submit correspondence, email clerks@halifax.ca 
More information: https://www.halifax.ca/city-hall/boards-committees-commissions/a-c/board-police-commissioners/engagement-bopc, click on “Correspondence”