RCMP- Maintiens Le Droit

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"But parachuting in an outsider would be a perilous venture at best. The Mounties are a little like an old-fashioned army regiment - a tightly knit organization that tends to treat all outside appointees as hostile intruders.

The only solution might be to find some bright star a little farther down the hierarchy and catapult him or her into the commissioner's chair.

Not a perfect solution but possibly workable

Whatever the government does it will have to make its pick with both prudence and dispatch - not an easy combination at the best of times. It will also have to act in a scrupulously non-partisan fashion, always difficult for politicians. But what's at stake here is the reputation of one of the finest national police forces in the world and an institution that's dear to the hearts of Canadians everywhere. That's certainly worth the effort."

If they have to go down a few ranks to get the best possible person for the job, then so be it.

Did senior management play fast and loose with the pension fund as a short term bridge financing arrangement to cover RCMP cash flow shortages? The RCMP have been underfunded for years.

In the next few years there are going to be thousands of retirements and thousands of
recruits are going to be hired.With the massive brain drain ,what arrangements are going to be made to stem that knowledge crisis? Will they make incentives available to 25+ year investigators to retain them? Will they rehire top investigators? When you have a significant portion of your organization that are novices, there are going to be problems with inexperience.

The rank and file should be calling and emailing those courageous officers who appeared before the Public Accounts Committee to thank them and support them.One only has to look into the recent past at whistle blowers like Cpl. Robert Read and Staff Sgt Bob Stenhouse who basically got deep sixed for doing their job.It should have been a no brainer as to what was the right thing to do.Apparently it wasn't to some at the highest echelons.

The RCMP have had a proud tradition but some at the top seemed to be more interested in the pomp and circumstance, photo ops and using the stetsons and scarlet tunics as marketing tools.Their basic function is protecting Canadians from crooks and terrorists.They need to get back to that instead of the bureaucratic paper shuffle that seems to have inundated them.Lots of papers, studies and reports flying around, meanwhile the crooks have been having a field day( more like years)

A boil was lanced this week by those officers at the Public Accounts Committee. Let's hope that the necessary changes are finally made and their reputation is restored.Before a problem can be solved , it has to be acknowledged.This week it was.