Will Mississauga get its own police force?

City officials who’ve complained for years that paying for police in Peel is “a most egregious burden on Mississauga taxpayers” have hired a consulting firm to study the feasibility of Mississauga getting its own police force.

Long frustrated by a Peel Regional Police funding formula that sees Mississauga foot the bill for 62 per cent of the costs “while Brampton pays only 38 per cent, despite almost identical populations,” Mayor Carolyn Parrish said Thursday afternoon the City of Mississauga has contracted MCG Consulting Solutions to determine if there’s a strong case to be made for a Mississauga-only police force.

Mississauga and Brampton have been policed by the same regional force — Peel Regional Police — since Peel Region was formed in 1974.

Parrish told INsauga.com the study is expected to take about five months to complete. At that time, city officials could present their case, results of the study included, to the provincial government for consideration.

“A city our size can and should have its own police force,” the mayor told INsauga.com on Thursday, noting numerous cities in Ontario that are smaller than Mississauga have their own independent police forces.

Parrish said the consulting firm will be allowed access to extensive data from Peel police in the coming months as it does its work. Public consultations are also to be included in the process, she added.

As part of its study, MCG will also “evaluate our current 62/38 (police funding) split with Brampton and the costs of starting a separate Mississauga police service,” said Parrish, who wrote in a letter to the provincial government back in January that the 2025 Peel police budget “… is a most egregious burden on Mississauga taxpayers. Peel Regional Police have presented us with a 2025 budget increase of $144 million, or 23.3 per cent. Mississauga will again carry 62 per cent of the cost while Brampton pays only 38 per cent, despite almost identical populations.”

In Ottawa this past August at the 2025 Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference, a delegation from Mississauga told the provincial government — again — the city and its residents must be treated more fairly when it comes to paying for Peel Regional Police services.

City officials said at the time that atop a list of eight main priorities for Mississauga is a push to have the province fix the Peel Regional Police funding formula at the Region of Peel “to ensure fairness for Mississauga taxpayers by saving more than $93 million in annual subsidies to Brampton.”