The Toronto Police Service (TPS), formerly the Metropolitan Toronto Police, is the police service for the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest municipal police service in Canada and third largest police force in Canada after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). At a budget of almost $1 billion it ranks second only to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in city budgetary expense.
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