The challenge when it comes to police agencies looking to generate revenue is of course that the priority for police organizations is public safety, not generating revenue. The challenge will always be the concern the public would rightly have that police agencies were getting involved in activities just to generate revenue.
There are some good examples. For example, here in Vancouver they have an excellent false-alarm reduction program for which they worked with the city to create a bylaw under which there's a requirement to have a permit to have an alarm. It is a strategy that was undertaken to reduce the need for the police to respond to false alarms on a continuous basis. It's raised some revenue and it's reduced the impact on the police, because they don't have to respond to as many false alarms since people are being more responsible. There is a consequence now to not managing your alarm system properly. That's just one example, but it's one in which there is clearly no conflict regarding the revenue generated and the police response. I think there are other examples like that out there, but you have to be very cautious.
I'll give you one last example. In British Columbia the provincial government, independently of the police, returns traffic fine revenue to local governments to help offset the cost of local policing. I think that's an excellent program, and one that can be looked at across the country.