The revolving door justice system that currently allows violent criminals easy bail will no longer exist in Ontario by summer’s end, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative provincial government confirmed Wednesday night.

In fact, the Toronto Sun has learned that one month from now, the province hopes to have their “legal SWAT teams” in place to reverse the previous government’s edict to release on bail as many people before the courts as possible while they await their trials.

Ontario’s soft “catch and release” bail practice is over — of course at the discretion of the bench.

“They’re interviewing right now — targeting (to have the teams operational) by the end of September,” said Ford spokesperson Laryssa Waler.

The new approach is “part of the funding the government will invest $7.6 million” to help solve the guns and murder crisis.

“Each team will be led by a Crown Attorney and be mandated to focus exclusively on ensuring that violent gun criminals are denied bail and remain behind bars,” said Waler.

“These teams will be further supported by new bail compliance officers who will focus their attention exclusively on ensuring that those gun criminals who are out on bail are not violating any of the terms of their release. We’re actively forming the teams and expect them to be in place in the coming weeks.”

These changes are in response to previous Attorney General Yasir Naqvi, who said “one of the fundamental presumptions in Canadian criminal law is that a person arrested and charged with an offence will be out of custody prior to trial” and “jails are not the places you send somebody to get better.”

Ford’s new bail plan, in contrast, will see more violent criminals spending more time in jail.

The first to commend the new approach was Toronto Mayor John Tory who — on a day where Toronto’s murder tally climbed to 65 — attended a fundraising barbecue for Danforth massacre murder victim Reese Fallon.

“I think people who have previously used guns or violence (in a new crime) should not get out again. Full stop,” said Tory, who had written a letter to new Attorney General Caroline Mulroney last month calling for aggressive bail reform.

The mayor said Ford has responded with something that will help at a time where “the city’s status as a safe city is being challenged.”

More police, more social programs are part of trying to curb the violence but keeping the people already known to police, or who have been accused or convicted of a serious crime, locked up is a tangible way to protect citizens at a time where there have already been as many people murdered or shot in 2018 as we had in all of 2017.

“Premier Ford takes gang and gun violence very seriously,” said Waler.

“Toronto is on pace to have the deadliest year in recent memory. The city needs action now and we’re working with Chief (Mark) Saunders to provide support to our police. Part of the solution is keeping violent gun criminals behind bars.”

It will be too late for either Fallon or ten-year-old Julianna Kozis — both ruthlessly murdered in a terror-like tactical shooting spree on the Danforth. The Reese Fallon Legacy Scholarship and family fundraiser in Bob Action Park in the Main and Gerrard area was set up by her teacher at Malvern Collegiate Mark Steel, and his wife Julie, to help another kid with big dreams.

So far $75,000 has been raised.

It’s positive, but the big news was the premier and mayor working together to try to keep locked up the very people behind Toronto’s shooting war zone.

jwarmington@postmedia.com