Citing federal sources, the Toronto Star reported Ottawa is looking to transform the RCMP into an FBI-like federal police agency.
Advocates of police reform say they hope the B.C. government will act on recommendations to create a new provincial force following reports that Ottawa is considering revamping the RCMP so it operates more like the FBI and less like a collection of small-town police departments.
Citing federal sources, the Toronto Star reported Ottawa is looking to transform the RCMP into an FBI-like federal police agency that focuses solely on national security, terrorism, financial crimes, cybercrime and organized crime. This could take the RCMP out of the business of front-line contract policing in hundreds of small communities across Canada.
“We should not be having a conversation about renewing the contract with the RCMP,” said B.C. Green MLA Adam Olsen, who sat on an all-party legislative committee which last year recommended the province ditch the RCMP in favour of a provincial force. “We should be putting ourselves in a position to be able to deliver policing services with a new provincial police force.”
However, Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation that represents 20,000 RCMP officers, said in speaking to senior federal officials, he’s had no indication this review of contract policing will lead to its demise. Robert Gordon, a Simon Fraser University professor emeritus of criminology, has long been critical of the RCMP. He said the status quo is not sustainable and there’s growing outrage among members of the public about the RCMP’s resistance to fundamental change, even in the face of the Mass Casualty Commission’s final report into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
“If the RCMP does not seize the opportunity now to make some fundamental, significant reforms, then they deserve what’s coming for them,” Gordon said.
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