Ontario’s police chiefs are pushing back against Premier Doug Ford’s plan to scrap automated speed cameras, telling the government they’ve been proven to reduce dangerous speeding in towns and cities.

In a statement issued Thursday morning, the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police said it supported the cameras Premier Ford has called a “tax grab,” arguing they have been “proven to reduce speeding.”

Ford kicked off a plan to force local municipalities to remove automated speed cameras from their streets earlier this month, arguing they don’t improve safety and are mainly used to raise money for city hall.

“It’s just a tax grab, and they should take out those cameras, all of them,” he said on Sept. 9. “If you want to slow down traffic in school, you put the big, huge signs, big flash

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