Nearly 60% of the class of 85 new Toronto police constables that graduated on Monday, the year’s first graduating recruitment class, speaks a language other than English, according to the Toronto Police Service.

The languages include French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujrati, Tamil, Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin, German, Polish, Croatian, Ukrainian, Russian and Somali, the department stated.

The Toronto Police College class ranges in age from 20 to 44, the department stated.

“I don’t see Hebrew or Yiddish listed on the list of languages for this recruit class,” Viktor Sarudi, a media relations officer for the Toronto Police Service, told JNS.

The Toronto Police Service said earlier in the month that Jews were the targets of 82% of religion hate crimes in Toronto in 2025, when Muslims were targets 14% of the time. The department also said that hate crimes were up 40% in 2026.

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