Policing costs going up next year

Its going to cost a bit more to police the City of Kenora next year.

Inspector Dave Lucas presented his 2012 costing to the Kenora Police Services Board this morning.

The proposed budget for OPP service next year is just over 6.8 million dollars, which is about 130 thousand dollars more than this years estimated costs.

Lucas says they've reduced the overtime estimates for next year, because they have been coming in about 2.5 percent less than the nine percent they budgeted for over the past couple of years.