- Reaction score
- 35
- Points
- 560
From Newsbeat 1
http://newsbeat1.com/2006/01/rcmp-understaffed-and-underfunded.html
Good fortune may be smiling on them as one of Prime Minister Harper's key points is law enforcement.
http://newsbeat1.com/2006/01/rcmp-understaffed-and-underfunded.html
Monday, January 30, 2006
RCMP- understaffed and underfunded........
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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.
Good fortune may be smiling on them as one of Prime Minister Harper's key points is law enforcement.