WHEREAS it is the expectation by the provincial government of municipal funding for integrated police teams: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the provincial government provide 100 funding for integrated police teams e.g., Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, Emergency Response Team, Integrated Collision and Reconstruction and Analysis Team, Police Dog Team, Forensic Identification Services, etc. as these integrated teams cross multi-jurisdictional boundaries and are needed to deal with criminal activity throughout the province.
MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND SOLICITOR GENERAL The services integrated teams provide are services that municipalities are responsible for providing. The Province of British Columbia Province requires a certain standard of policing be maintained to ensure public safety. If a municipality does not have the level of expertise or capability to provide these services, then the municipality must contract with another agency to provide those services. The Province continues to work with the RCMP on integration initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of policing by consolidating specialized and capital-intensive functions while at the same time decentralizing service directly to the public. The Province subsidizes integrated teams and also provides significant support through funding initiatives that benefit all municipalities and police agencies, such as DNA analysis and the implementation of PRIME, the province-wide police record management system. In addition, under the Traffic Fine Revenue Sharing grant program, the Province disburses 100 per cent of the traffic fine revenues received in the province.