FADDEN: Canadian policing — it's time for change

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Since its creation, the RCMP has been an icon — sometimes shining, sometimes tarnished.

So, in looking at the future role of the RCMP, we should consider both the interests of the

Delivery of the three baskets of services is immeasurably more complex than it was a few decades ago and it is unreasonable to ask one organization to do it all.Article content It is unfair to individual officers to ask them to work in areas for which they are not trained and it is definitively not in the national interest. This argument applies across the board to all elements of federal policing and the same is true of contract policing which is as complex an undertaking as federal policing — just very different.

Currently, Ottawa subsidizes contract policing up to 30%. While perhaps of benefit to some of the recipient provinces, it inappropriately skews responsibility under the Constitution which provides that it is the provinces which are responsible for local policing. If financial support is necessary, use should be made of the general financial transfer provisions currently in place.Article content

 

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a change at the top - is NEEDED , rid the RCMP of Lucki the incompetent.

The law enforcement in Canada does great work in keeping society together...

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