New RCMP Contract To Be Signed Today
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 @ 4:00 AM
Prince George, B.C.- Minister of Justice and Attorney General Shirley Bond, will be signing the new RCMP contract agreement later today.
She, along with Federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will officially sign the service contract at the Surrey RCMP detachment this afternoon.
Minister Bond has indicated in the past that the contract “ reflects a new partnership based on transparency and mutual benefits” and that it contains “greater financial accountability and measures to monitor and contain costs over time.”
When the agreement in principle was reached last November, Minister Bond said there would be a “Contract Management Committee (CMC)” which would have municipal representatives that would work with the Province and Canada to jointly oversee how the RCMP deliver services, and how costs are managed. Municipalities which carry 90% of the burden for costs for their RCMP municipal force, have long complained that decisions which carried a financial burden were being made without their consultation, and those decisions were very expensive for municipal taxpayers.
The agreement was to have a two year opt-out clause and provision for a review at the five year mark. Full details will be released later today.
The current contract expires at the end of this month.
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Missed opportunity for a Provincial sovereign force IMO.
I would think that there would be a clause which would enable a civilian body to investigate any wrong doing by the RCMP.
Eagleone, probably just as well. You can’t imagine how much that would cost taxpayers.
Ah yes, ye olde P3 at work. Divest local control to a private (oops… I guess Federal actually … hey, what’s the diff, eh?) coporation and they stiff you for ever spiralling costs without any control of cost increases.
A Public-Public-Partnership (P3) at work. Everyone keeps forgetting about those.
Is it that we have a new RCMP building going up in Prince George? Don’t you think a local police force could operate from there or from a far less expensive building?
And for all those fools who think we live in a police state, go live in Syria for a year. Glad its settled, and yes we do have a group who will oversee them.
Now, if the teachers could fire their union and get with the program, we’d be doing really well.
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