Date:
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: HEMDCC Meeting Space, Main Floor Alderney Landing, 60 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth
Minutes: November 29, 2023 Board of Police Commissioners Minutes (PDF)
Agenda
1. CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
2. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – NONE
4. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS
Deletion:
• Item 7.1 – Commissioner Critchley - Mental health and policing
5. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
6. CALL FOR DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
7. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – November 15, 2023
7.1 Commissioner Critchley – Mental health and policing
Motion:
That the Board of Police Commissioners for the Halifax Regional Municipality:
1. Direct the Chair of the Board of Police Commissioners write a letter to the Provincial Ministers of Justice and Health requesting that regulations be drafted pursuant to section 83(1)(i) of the Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act, SNS 2005, c 42 to define “other authorized individual” under section 16(2) of the Act, so as to permit someone other than a peace officer to remain at the place of a medical examination and retain custody of a person undergoing a medical examination until such examination is completed.
2. Direct the Chair of the Board of Police Commissioners write a letter to the Acting CEO of Nova Scotia Health requesting that funds be designated to hire additional clinicians for the Mental Health Mobile Crisis Team (MHMCT).
This item was deleted from the agenda.
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 STAFF
10.1.1 Halifax Regional Municipality Fiscal Update – Presentation [PDF]
10.1.2 Halifax Regional Police 2024/25 Proposed Operating Budget [PDF]
Motion:
That, having ensured that the proposed Halifax Regional Police Operating Budget for 2024/25 as presented at the October 18, October 25, and November 15, 2023 meetings of the Board of Police Commissioners for the Halifax Regional Municipality 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 2024/25 Halifax Regional Police Operating Budget of $98,132,100, which includes a proposed increase in the composition as set out in the Proposed Service Enhancements identified in the 2024/25 Budget Information Package, set out in Attachment A of the staff report dated November 24, 2023, and as presented by Chief MacLean to the Board on November 15, 2023.
10.1.3 Royal Canadian Mounted Police 2024/25 Funding Request - Presentation [PDF]
10.2 COMMISSIONER UPDATES
11. ADDED ITEMS
12. ITEMS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION
13. IN CAMERA (IN PRIVATE) – NONE
14. NOTICES OF MOTION
15. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – December 13, 2023
16. 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”