Bradford says Toronto trains officers and loses them to better-staffed forces. The service's own budget says they're retiring.
Claim“A safe city isn't built by asking people to do more with less. My plan will hire 1,000 more police officers to serve our communities and back up existing officers.”
TPS attributes its rising separations to a demographic bulge: officers hired in the mid-1990s, after the hiring freezes of the late 1980s, reaching retirement age now. Neither the 2025 nor the 2026 budget notes mention other police services at all, and 2025 separations came in below forecast. Officers may well leave for other forces — but nothing published shows it happening at a rate worth building a policy on.