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An independent review of police operations in Saskatoon could cost nearly $200,000.

According to one city councillor, it’s worth the price.

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“If you want to have an independent, objective review you can’t do it with your own internal staff. It’s a $90 million budget we are looking at,” Coun. Charlie Clark said Wednesday.

A report going before the city’s police board pegs the cost of getting an outside consultant to take a hard look at police operations in the city at $198,550.

The review will dig deep into police operations, looking at everything from staffing levels to where police are spending cash and resources and why.

In December, city council approved a 4.83 per cent increase in the police budget totalling $4.3 million.

That brought the annual police operating budget for Saskatoon to $84.3 million in 2016.

Clark has been a proponent of the third party review since the beginning, saying that policing is evolving and Saskatoon needs to make sure police resources are being used as efficiently as possible.