Councillor Wong-Tam asks Police Chief Saunders if the three-year moratorium on hiring recommended by the Transformational Task Force in 2017 actually happened. It did not, confirms Saunders. Police began hiring again about six months in. https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/08/10/toronto-police-board-backtracks-on-hiring-freeze-plans-to-hire-80-officers.html