RCMP- understaffed and underfunded........
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Thanks Kate! The shape the Liberals left our Mounties in is truly reprehensible.Instead of concentrating on criminals and terrorists , the Liberals concentrated on honest duck hunters and farmers.It's not like they didn't have the money available or anything.Now why would the Liberals want to cripple the investigative backbone of the RCMP by consistently underfunding them for years? Who benefitted when the RCMP couldn't function effectively and in a timely way?
Welcome Instapundit readers! Thanks Glenn!
Swearing-in day at Depot, as the training facility here is known, is a time for such blue-sky optimism -- a moment for grads to reflect with pride on joining the world's most iconic police force. But reality quickly intrudes. No sooner have Johnston and 27 fellow graduates scattered to postings across the country than the federal auditor general releases a report revealing that many of those positions he covets aren't actually getting filled. Newly released numbers show the Mounties have fallen some 600 officers, or 25 per cent, below normal strength in federal enforcement areas like drug interdiction and organized crime.
Who benefits when they can't adequately fulfil their mandate -Maintiens le Droit? Basically they have been using bandaid solutions when the artery is haemorrhaging.They were transformed into a paper shuffling bureaucracy from the effective crime fighting organization they used to be.One only has to look at the recent track record and the length of time it takes to conclude investigations.
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So... Now we know where that $1bn (or more) for the National Firearms Registry came from?
It sounds like it's not so much understaffed and underfunded as overmanaged and underutilized. (Though obviously the former is also a problem.) If an organization can't so much as put its people where its priorities are (or ought to be), it's soon going to be a dead organization.
Fortunately, I'm sure the RCMP has good enough people and a proud enough tradition to turn this thing around. If the people in charge let them, that is.
And if you need to hire some secretaries to do the paperwork, fine. But I think the RCMP'd be better off just cutting the paperwork to a minimum and putting its people and money on the actual investigation and law enforcement bits.
I think you hit the nail right on the head Kevin.
Only time and opening the books will tell though.
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Quote: a moment for grads to reflect with pride on joining the world's most iconic police force/ quote
How can a Canadian policeforce be iconic? What did they do? Arrest a bear for stealing blackberries?
Aww, Gil, aren't you Babble people supposed to be over at SDA and Angry's? Go to Google and type: definition iconic. That is unless you are indicating an anti-police bias. Then you need to spell it out a little better.
If an organization can't so much as put its people where its priorities are (or ought to be), it's soon going to be a dead organization.
Unless its a government organization, of course.
We may be short of RCMP, but we are awash with lawyers!! The courts don't support the RCMP. Like, when there are meth labs in town. A group of residents got angry and waved some placards. The RCMP were (quietly) apologetic, that they can do nothing, nada, to control the Bad Guys.
I had the experience of taking a fellow to court, who had bounced a cheque in my store (for his wedding rings!!!). He had bounced checks up and down the street. I followed the case as it wended its way through the courts, and finally, in the last hearing, a policeman leaned over and whispered to me, "I think we might win this one!" Well, we did, sort of... the fellow was sentenced to some hours of community service, and of course, he was supposed to pay the people he had stolen from. However. He left town, and no-one in the system thought it was worth anyone's while to catch him.
So, pity the RCMP. I think the one thing that would improve our "justice system" the most is to have a TV channel for each criminal/misdemeanour courtroom, so the populace can actually watch what (doesn't) happen.
Heather points to the real malaise.
An RCMP officer carefully deals with a felon who breaks someon's face open. Who breaks that person's glasses and comes close to blinding the person in one eye. He breaks two teeth in the process.
The officer carefully takes the statements of witnesses and crosses all the Ts and dots Is properly. There is no cause except beligerance and the case is iron clad.
Result is the case is won hands down. Verdict? guilty.
Sentence for agrivated unprovoked assault? One year probation and some weekends of community service. [=wet noodle]
I marvel that there is any spirit left in our RCMP.
A first person witness. TG
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