Mayor John Tory is proposing a $48.3-million budget increase for the Toronto Police Service.

“One of our principal responsibilities is to keep our community safe and to keep Torontonians safe. This will show itself in a proposed 4.3 per cent increase in the police budget,” Tory said at a news conference Tuesday announcing the investment.

The city says the proposed funding brings the service’s 2023 budget to just over $1.1 billion. In 2021, the police budget was roughly $1.076 billion.

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