OPP quote for Aylmer could take over a year

While an Ontario Provincial Police analyst called the new process “streamlined,” Aylmer’s request to get a quote for OPP service to potentially replace the town’s own municipal police force could take more than a year.

Sergeant Kevin Hummel, a “Deployed Contract Analyst” with the OPP’s Municipal Policing Bureau, led a presentation on the OPP costing process during a special Aylmer council meeting on Monday evening, July 18 at the town’s fire hall.

He said Aylmer was one of 10 municipalities that had requested quotes for service, or costing, from the OPP over the past several months and was first within “group B,” the second set of municipalities in the queue.

Group A has four municipalities that the OPP will prepare quotes for first, before completing Aylmer’s request.