The township of Atikokan will continue to have the Ontario Provincial Police patrol its streets.
Town council has agreed to renew a five-year policing contract with the OPP with costs to come in at just under $1.5 million this year.
That's about $100-thousand more than what the town expected to pay in 2010.
Mayor Dennis Brown says OPP did submit a second proposal worth about half that, but would not have given the township twenty-four hour policing.
OPP took over policing from Atikokan's municipal force in 2006.
