Police Cashed in at G8/G20 Summits

Officers who travelled to Toronto and Huntsville for last year's summits made, on average, $10,000 for their troubles.

Police officers who came from across the country to Ontario for last year's G8 and G20 summits cost the RCMP – and taxpayers – more than $7 million, much of which was a result of officers getting paid one-and-a-half to two times their regular rates due to overtime pay. Nearly 700 officers from 17 police forces across Canada came to the Muskokas and Toronto for the back-to-back summits, and, on average, each made more than $10,000 for providing security. The new figures, which the RCMP released to the CBC, show that the 278 Montreal police officers all pulled in their vacation rate – double what they usually make – for a total of more than $3.3 million. These numbers don't include how much was spent on the 19,000 other officers from Toronto and the Ontario Provincial Police who worked the summit as well.