The RCMP needs reform but I don’t understand why anyone thinks this is the reform it needs. More like the FBI? A stronger federal/state policing division makes sense in the states because each state has it’s own criminal code. In Canada the criminal code is federal so that distinction is not so important. The article unfortunately did not have a lot of details on why there is interest in this change.
I can see why the RCMP would want to get out of policing contracts, especially in remote rural areas. Provinces cut/freeze the policing budgets, so the RCMP reduce the number of officers/local detachments, response times go up, politicians blame the RCMP. Rince and repeat.
With provincial or municipal police forces, poor policing lands squarely on the municipality/province.
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I don’t see why it can’t do both policing like it was intended and cross-provincial investigating activities since it’s already cross-province.
The RCMP needs reform but I don’t understand why anyone thinks this is the reform it needs. More like the FBI? A stronger federal/state policing division makes sense in the states because each state has it’s own criminal code. In Canada the criminal code is federal so that distinction is not so important. The article unfortunately did not have a lot of details on why there is interest in this change.
It’s fishing … fishing for feedback and gauging the public response.
Even the lack of a response is a response they will use to guide them on what they can / can’t do, can get away with / can’t get away with.
On one hand, I don’t like it. On the other hand, it would help increase the prestige of the RCMP and stop the bleeding of officers.
I can see why the RCMP would want to get out of policing contracts, especially in remote rural areas. Provinces cut/freeze the policing budgets, so the RCMP reduce the number of officers/local detachments, response times go up, politicians blame the RCMP. Rince and repeat.
With provincial or municipal police forces, poor policing lands squarely on the municipality/province.
Unnamed sources said what??? Did these sources even exist or is this more fairy tales from the star?