The Calgary Police Service will ask City Council to approve its proposed plan to hire 50 new officers but the salaries of the additions to the force will not be funded through tax dollars.

In the proposal, traffic fine revenue will supply the $7.5 million required to cover the salaries of the recruits.

According to a Calgary Police Service report on the proposal, an additional 50 officers would improve the citizen to police officer ratio from the current 628:1 to 613:1. This year, the Calgary Police Service has hired no new officers and 10 were hired in 2015.

Ward 1 Councillor Ward Sutherland supports the move saying the revenue needed for the new officers already exists and would not require an increase of traffic patrols.

“It’s not actually an increase in tickets at all, it’s an increase of revenue because the province last year increased the fines 35 per cent,” explained Sutherland. “So really what’s happening is additional funds coming in from the existing tickets that are occurring. There's not a correlation of we're going out and giving more tickets to get this, it’s the standard that’s happening right now.”

Paige Macpherson, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Alberta director, questions the idea of CPS members generating the funding for their salaries.

“We think that the money should come out of general revenues,” “Of course we should have a well-funded police service but we don’t think that the police themselves should be the ones out there going and trying to collect money."

The matter is scheduled to be discussed during Monday’s City Council session. If approved, the new recruits would hit the streets by July 2017.

With files from CTV's Ina Sidhu