Will the new budget slash Edmonton police spending? Mayor says likely not

Source: Alberta - Edmonton Journal (Legislature & Capital)
Date: 2026-09-10 11:05:32.0
Tags: [Municipal, Alberta, Public Safety, Governance, Finance]

Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack announced that the City of Edmonton will likely maintain the current funding formula for the Edmonton Police Service in the short term, despite polarizing results from a recent 12,000-person budget survey. The current funding framework ties staff expense increases to population growth and non-staff spending to a specialized inflation number. While a city budget simulator showed nearly 60 per cent of participants reallocating money away from the police to balance accounts, Edmonton Police Service representatives and city leadership emphasized that the exercise did not accurately measure service-level impacts or statistical significance.