City’s share of BC’s Traffic Fine Revenue to help offset cost of RCMP contract

The City of Prince George will be seeing just under $1.19 million as part of the Traffic Fine Revenue Sharing Transfer.

The Province’s $53 million in collected traffic fine revenue from last year will be shared between 77 communities that are eligible for the funding.

Municipalities with populations over 5,000 or more that are directly responsible for paying for policing services receive a grant to help pay for community safety programs and policing.

Here in Prince George, the City elects to use that money they receive to offset the cost of the policing contract with the RCMP.

“We actually don’t apply it to any specific program or expense outside of just the main contract for the police,” Kris Dalio, Director of Finance for the City of Prince George, told MyPGNow. “There’s not a specific program of hiring or community policing, or anything like that which we attribute it to, it’s just the general offset to the cost.”

According to the 2019 budget for the City of Prince George, the contract for policing in the Northern Capital is $22.6 million, which is paid out quarterly by the City.