Toronto's fine-est: Over 1K automated speeding tickets issued to police vehicles in 2-year period
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The officers issuing Toronto's speeding tickets are also racking them up as well, as newly obtained data shows the city's cops are facing fines for more than 1,000 incidents in a 26-month period.
The officers issuing Toronto's speeding tickets are also racking them up as well, as newly obtained data shows cops in the city are facing fines for more than 1,000 incidents in a 26-month period.
The tickets and figures, obtained by CTV News through Freedom of Information requests, show evidence of Toronto Police Service (TPS) vehicles, including regular patrol cars, prisoner transport vehicles, special constable cars, and even parking enforcement cars, zooming past speed limit signs across the city.
In one case, a special constable car was ticketed $120 for going 59 km/h in a school zone at pick-up time.
In another, a squad car is seen running the red light on King Street at Spadina Avenue just after 11 a.m. as a man is seen crossing in the crosswalk one lane over. That resulted in a $325 fine issued to the car.
While the TPS says it frowns upon and follows procedures to deal with unnecessary speeding, figures show the number of tickets issued to police vehicles is trending upwards – from 435 in 2021 to 495 in 2022.
“We know that speed is the primary factor that determines whether someone is struck with a vehicle lives or dies. So the thought of police officers casually speeding around and potentially putting the public at risk is disturbing,” Jess Spieker of Friends and Families for Safe Streets told CTV News Toronto.
