Funding to Edmonton Police Service (Resource Analysis)

Original source: https://www.edmonton.ca/sites/default/files/public-files/Resource-Analysis-Funding-Police-Funding-HomelessServices.pdf

Local snapshot (archived 2026-07-03): full-page PDF committed at sources/budgets/_archive/city-resource-analysis-eps-funding/city-resource-analysis-eps-funding.pdf.

City of Edmonton administration resource analysis (~2022). Extracted via pdftotext -layout. The single best source for the net-budget composition and EPS share of the city budget.

2022 net operating budget composition

"In 2022, the Edmonton Police Service's total net operating budget (expenditures less revenue) was $407.2 million, comprised of $384.9 million in tax levy funding and $22.3 million transferred from the Traffic Safety and Automated Enforcement Reserve." Budgeted 2022 EPS revenue: $34.5M fees for service + $30M government grants ($26.1M Policing Support Grant + $3.9M victim services/heavy-users/911) + $22.6M reserve transfers ($22.3M from Traffic Safety & Automated Enforcement Reserve) + $11.2M other.

EPS share of city budget

"Edmonton Police Service budgeted expenditures represent 15.4 per cent of total City budgeted [expenditures]." (Transit = 13.1 per cent.) EPS is the single largest line item.

Net tax-levy series (2019-2022) — funding-formula era

"The original 2019-2022 operating budget included City tax-levy funding to EPS of $356.3 million in 2019, growing to $406.8 million in 2022, showing an increase of 14 per cent over four years." "The budget now sets City tax-levy funding to EPS at $356.3 million in 2019, growing to $384.9 million in 2022, showing an increase of 8 per cent over four years." (Difference = the $11M/2-year council reduction + reframing $22.3M reserve transfer as separate.)

Funding formula

Yearly EPS budget = prior year + (population growth + inflation as measured by the Police Price Index − an efficiency factor), plus salary settlements. In 2021 Edmonton population grew ~0.9% YoY. Photo-radar note: the $22.3M transferred annually from the Traffic Safety and Automated Enforcement Reserve holds "the City's portion of photo enforcement" revenue and is counted as EPS revenue in the formula. If reserve transfers drop, tax-levy funding must rise to compensate.

Provincial grant history

Prior to 2021 two provincial grants funded police: the Municipal Policing Assistance Grant (since at least 2017-18) and the Police Officer Grant; both were amalgamated into a single Policing Support Grant in 2021. Alberta's per-capita municipal police grant was set at $16/capita in 2004 and never adjusted for inflation. In 2020 the provincial share of fine revenue rose to 40% (from 36.1%) and the victim-services surcharge rose from 15% to 20%.