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To be fair I don't know if I would have made it, let alone been that good. But it was certainly a major disappointment for me to have some infantry sergeant assigned to the CFRC decide I wouldn't have what it took without even trying. Take my experience and multiply it by the entire country...

Years ago, I tried to get in to the RCAF as a pilot. CFRC told me I wasn't good enough and suggested the Reserves to "get my foot in the door". And when I say I was told I wasn't good enough, this was a conversation with a recruiter prior to any of the testing results he could have used to...

My point is its bad journalism. 90% of the article is making the case that this man was justified in killing one, and wounding two police officers and then leaves the slight caveat of, having recognized it was the police, continued to engage in a gunfight with them for a considerable amount of...

That article goes to painful lengths to try and justify the fact the accused didn't know it was police and reacted in self defence, and then in a single sentence at the very end of the story allows "After Mueller is downed in the first volley of nine rounds, Bellefeuille goes on to shoot...

Sounds good to me. Our recruiting material these days is full of two things. High speed low drag stuff like dogs, ERT, air services, marine services, etc or well dressed plainclothes members looking like they're thinking really hard looking at computer screens. The rare time a frontline member...

No reason. Just checking in, ya know? locks eyes with the nearest fellow ground pounder in disbelief

It would take a damn long time. And if the sales pitch to retain members/recruit new ones was come chase gun runners/drug smugglers/human traffickers with high powered boats/trucks/ATVs/UTVs/helicopters/aircraft I'm sure we would do just fine recruiting. Same with a lot of the other stuff we do...

Dump contract. Voila, bodies for Federal Policing.

So uh... you guys in the Navy ok over there?

That may be true, but they're the self proclaimed procurement experts (with a monopoly on the business) of the GoC. They should be fixing those poorly defined requirements by sending it back to whomever for rework before proceeding with another procurement debacle. Because they're the experts.

Have you seen our pistol procurement? :ROFLMAO: The common denominator here is Public Service and Procurement Canada. If I was king for a day I'd Elon the f*** out of them.

If I've learned anything from being in Surrey during this debacle, its that nobody, not a single person at all gives a single f*** what the people doing the actual work at the coal face think, do, or experience on a daily basis. No our own management, our union, the City, the Province, the...

Lots of good points here for sure, I can't quote them all so I'll just make some more general points. Local policing in Canada can definitely happen without the RCMP, my point here is more how does the Federal Government sell the idea of new police forces to the provinces. I think one of those...

And one more thought before I call it a night. If we divest all contract policing, where are Mounties going to learn to do the basic, foundational policing that leads to most of the skills used in the higher levels on investigation? I'm not saying they won't be able to, but it won't be easy.

Whew, where to start? First of all, you guys must have a mole in my office. My penchant for caffeine that's cold and in a can has been laid bare, and my efforts to quit chew with nicotine pouches is downright depressing at times... I digress. I find the soon to be former Prime Minister's...

I don't work for Air Services so can't speak specifically to that, but where did you hear this? We have aircraft older than 7 years in our inventory in E Division, I can tell you that with absolute certainty. I can also tell you we also have a policy of 160,000kms or 10 years whichever comes...

Fair enough. I can tell you there's enough former Reg or active PRes people around in the RCMP that the actual deployment of the M2 .50 or C6 or another similar crew served weapon wouldn't actually be a challenge, and considering what's 3-4kms behind the target wouldn't be an issue. There's...

Why not?

Without getting too far into it, and with the disclaimer of I worked only a very small, but busy slice of the border; The Americans lie to a lot of the people who cross their borders about how we will provide a job and a car and welfare etc. They are shocked and disappointed when they're...

In case anybody is wondering how un-serious we are about Border Integrity: I am in Surrey Detachment. I have applied 4 times to Border Integrity, and been denied for one reason or another. (usually the fact they don't want me to leave the contract policing side of the RCMP) I worked in a...