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A lot to digest here in a short conversation. Some insight. “ I understand in many areas their relationship with the local communities isn't great. That is changeable.“ I am going to disagree with that. The poling in Alberta (and across Canada) shows most RCMP policed communities are satisfied...

Three things on RCMP procurement: Members have been waiting on new pistols and blue shirts among othe things, for 10 years (ish). Some indecision by senior management and lots of issues with PW&PC. Federal Policing have been asking for a platform like the BHs for a few years. Issues with senior...

The NPF is covering all the bases, minicipal/provincial-territorial (contract) and federal. Strongly advocating in all jurisdictions to retain the RCMP. I think the hard part about the role of border integrity between POEs is that it isnt just about border jumpers or illegal drug / gun...

And you would be assigned to………. Drum role please………. GD (patrol) for your first 5 years. With no chance of getting into Federal, ever.

RCMP uses in-house AMEs for day to day maintenance.

The RCMP has no “max” seven year rule on their aircraft. The Pilatus were delivered over about a 5 year period starting around 2001. So that fleet was all under 7 years old at one point, around 10 years ago. Nice passenger plane to fly in but not good for the tasks the RCMP needs a plane for...

The Air Cadet league owns gliders and tugs. The CAF provides oversight and direction. The gliders and tugs are flown by CIC (CAF Mbrs) and Cadets. I don’t know how all the operational funding is done. But if that can work, it shouldn’t be impossible to set up a system for the Rangers to have...

The RCMP owns their aircraft, sometimes in a funding partnership with a provincial government. The crews and mechanics are RCMP Members. Excepting the recent lease of the blackhawks.

Often the viable solutions in the North aren’t difficult. The biggest impediment is normally someone in Ottawa, Winnipeg, etc who doesn’t understand the North and quite often the issue. Back in 2004-2006 the community I was in had a number of locals interested in CAF careers after we started a...

AHS TEMS are full time permanent ACPs whose primary duty is to provide support to either Calgary PS Tactical or Edmonton PS Tactical ( which ever they are tasked to). As EMS swapped from being supplied by municipal services to the provincial govt in Alberta. Thats why Alberta Health is the...

Kang 13, as you mentioned AB College of P I will tell you that Edmonton and Calgary TEMS are based on having all the right training and experience with Alberta Health as an ACP and then getting through the selection by either police service. As AHS provides the medics under contract, but both...

I went to Cuba a few times and on the second trip found that I liked Santiago de Cuba (rum). So for the next three trips I brought six bottles back. Each time we returned my wife had the receipts for the $100-150 in souvenirs we had in one hand (including a bottle) and I had the receipt for the...

I have to paraphrase this as I deleted it when I retired. I used to save obituaries for some of the more well known locals. From a local paper upon the death of a community member. So and So died unexpectedly last weekend after only recently reconnecting with his family. S&S had been away from...

My experience is that there is some good companies out there. But there are others that get unions because of the owners and managers. Treat people well and they don’t need a union.

A number of years ago I was on Alberta’s bail reform advisory group. When we were moving from the police acting as Crown to hiring dedicated Crowns for all hearings. One of the things that was noted immediately, was that the prep time for hearings increased significantly as the documents /...

Or if you have some open hours during the daytime. Feel free to watch a conduct board virtually or in person. https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/even/en/t/3/e

For your reading pleasure https://decisions.rcmp.gc.ca/rcmp/en/d/s/index.do

As far as knowing the ever changing firearms regs, I will give it to you that most Members have a superficial understanding. The rural Members were normally better than the ones who came from urban areas. It simply comes down to prioritization. Between Municipal, Provincial, and Federal Acts...

I don’t know what happened in 2016. But having been involved in investigations of lost / stolen firearms (civilian and RCMP). I will just say that there are some instances where Members could have been more diligent and others where they were in no way responsible. Stolen while in the custody...

In working on a number of reservations in Alberta and Manitoba. While Alberta had lots of both edged weapon (mainly samurai swords and steak knives) as well as firearm violence. We had surprisingly little firearm offences where / when I was in Manitoba. But plenty of machete and steak knife...