The RCMP are ill-trained to police modern crimes and over-stretched as a national security force. Time for a Mounties makeover, critics say.
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“Public Safety, in collaboration with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), is undertaking engagement with provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous partners and other stakeholders to assess the RCMP contract policing program,” department spokesperson Tim Warmington said in an email. “The goal of the engagement is to gather feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of the program, and to develop a vision of what contract policing could be after the expiry of the current contacts in 2032.”
Considering all the points raised in the article, I'm surprised the Federal bureaucracy isn't pushing for less contract policing and more federal policing. Instead there seems to be fighting back against any initiative by a province or municipality take that responsibility where the RCMP currently hold a contract.
There isn’t a push one way or the other. The organization is slowly separating the the contract and federal streams.
Where municipalities and governments have asked to take over a contract we go a long with it. We just ask that it is orderly. Our association, which has an interest in keeping the organization as big as it can be, is the outspoken part.
The issue is with the article- they have, again, cherry picked the portapique results. A local
Constabulary in that area would have had no different actions that night. And they could actually have even less experience.
I’ll give you an example of the difference. ERT members have many months of training to be what they are. The average mid sized “swat” in Canada measures their training in weeks. Excluding a few absolute pros in the country that have excellent training, but for every one of them there is a midsized with a 5 day basic swat operator from NTOA and then odds and ends.
The rural Nova Scotia police force that everyone suggests would be amazing would be a no different, if nothing ever happens somewhere- when the big one pops off- it’s a goat rodeo.
When the various levels of government see the bill to switch that’s when it turns into reluctance. And it’s not us. It’s the various municipalities.
We actually have a very high satisfaction with our services in a good portion of our contracts. But that doesn’t play well with the chemtrails types.
When you look at some of the resumes of the members running detachments you would be shocked at the expertise floating around small town Canada in a lot of places. Expertise those communities would never have with a local force
Provincial police forces and regional forces make more sense than tiny departments, I’d get behind provincial forces.