RCMP Union argues for the convenience of the requirements for foreign applicant to attract talent

The trade union that represents Front-Line RCMP members wants the strength to illuminate the requirements for foreign applicants to attract experienced police officers from agencies such as the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia.

The RCMP currently requires that applicants are Canadian citizens or have a permanent resident status in Canada. Applicants with a permanent status of residents must have lived in Canada as a permanent resident for three of the past five years.

The National Police Federation says that the RCMP must follow the management of the Canadian armed forces, who opened applications for permanent residents in 2022 without any requirement spent on time in Canada.

Brian Sauvé, president of the Federation, said that he “is quite sure that we can attract some good talent” through a similar step of the RCMP.

Sauvé compares the idea with federal immigration programs that try to seduce trained employees to come to Canada.

“If this government has identified public safety, border security and all those things as a necessity, we can do the same, right?” Sauvé said in a recent interview.

“We have an equivalence training. You can come from Manchester, you can come from New South Wales, you can come from, I don’t know, the FBI. And we will train you to be equal, to give you a job and put you in a role.”

The proposal is one of the different ideas that the police federation presents in a report from June aimed at improving the recruitment practices of the RCMP, the financing model, training programs and purchasing.

The Federation says that independent reports have offered a clear guidelines for improving the RCMP activities in these areas in the past two decades.

“Yet these recommendations have been received time and time again inactivity or insufficient follow -up,” says the June report. “As a result, long -term problems continued to exist and they were allowed to deteriorate.”

Public safety spokesperson Canada, Max Watson, said that the department is dedicated to working with the RCMP and others to ensure that the power is “equipped to meet the evolving needs of public safety.”

The Federation calls for a streamlined and modernized RCMP collection processing system, more training capacity and an increase in the CADET training bonus to around $ 1,200 per week compared to the current $ 525.

The federation says that it wants more flexibility for some new recruits, such as people from other law enforcement agencies, to make it easier for them to fit into the RCMP.

For example, the Federation comments that only serve or who have recently been able to apply inactive police officers through the three-week experienced police officer program of the RCMP, provided that they meet strict criteria.

That excludes a large pool of well -trained public safety staff, including members of the Canada Border Services Agency, provincial sheriffs, nature conservation officers and other law enforcement agents who may not meet the threshold, says the report.

Forcing these candidates to repeat a full 26-week training program at the RCMP training depot “creates a barrier for recruitment and results in missed opportunities to bring competent, experienced candidates to the RCMP,” the report adds.

It also says that the federal purchasing process is too slow and does not respond to the urgent needs of modern police work and empty valuable government resources.

“Delays in rolling out life -saving equipment, including service pistols, body cleaning and body -worn cameras, threaten both officer safety and public trust,” says the report.

Ottawa to invest $ 2 billion in armed forces for wage increases, improved benefits

During the spring elections, the liberals promised to recruit 1,000 more RCMP staff to tackle drugs and human trafficking, foreign interference, cyber crime and car thefts through organized crime.

The liberals also promised to create a new RCMP academy in Regina and to increase wages for Cadet recurrences.

Watson acknowledged the promise to hire more Mounties and said that public safety recognizes the importance of Cadet wage in broader efforts to support recruitment and retention.

The RCMP did not respond to a request for comment on time for publication.

The police were told to cut two percent of its budget as part of a government -wide cost -saving exercise.

Sauvé said that he is “careful optimistic”, the liberal government will continue with its dedication to strengthen the police, in a mandate letter in May.

The RCMP offers police services through contracts with all provinces and areas, except Ontario and Quebec. RCMP Politis -Agreements cover many of the national Canada, all north and many cities and municipalities in contract provinces.

The police federation acknowledges that some continue to ask whether the RCMP should throw its role of contract police in Canada and look more like the FBI by concentrating on federal criminal cases.

In March, before Mark Carney became prime minister, the liberals published a paper with a new vision for the RCMP. It suggested the power concentration on federal police work, as a result of the essential mandate and where it is best placed to lead investigations. “

The federation rejects the idea downright.

“The integrated Pan-Canadian police model of the RCMP remains one of the largest strengths, because of the ability to use coordination, consistency and efficiency in all areas of law,” says the June report.

It states that leaving the current model “Deep Service Charges, duplication and expensive public safety and economic inefficiencies would create without proof of better results.”

The Federation calls for special financing for federal police work and says that RCMP officers who perform those tasks no longer have to be used to step into contract jurisdictions.

“Federal assets must only be used for federal mandates,” says the report. “If federal members are re-used for non-federal purposes, those services must be recalled from contract partners.”