The union representing the Ottawa-Front-Line RCMP members wants the force to help the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United Kingdom and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and equivalent to attract experienced police officers to reduce the requirements for foreign applicants.
RCMP currently requires that applicants are Canadian citizens or a permanent resident status in Canada. Applicants with permanent resident conditions lived in Canada as a permanent resident for three of the last five years.
The National Police Federation says that the RCMP should follow the leadership of the Canadian armed forces, which opened applications for permanent residents without any requirement spent in Canada in 2022.
Federation President Brian Saw said that he is “very sure we can attract some good talents” through a similar step by RCMP.
Samples compare this idea with federal immigration programs that try to woo skilled workers to come to Canada.
“If this government has identified public safety, border security and all that goods as a compulsory, then we can do the same thing, right?” Sowy said in an interview recently.
“We have equivalence training. You can come from Manchester, you can come from New South Wales, you can come, I don’t know, FBI. And we’ll train you to be equivalent, to give you a job and put you in a role.”
This proposal is one of the several views which the police federation has submitted in a June report that aims to improve RCMP recruitment practices, funding models, training programs and procurement.
The Federation says that in the last two decades, independent reports have offered a clear guidance to the federal government to improve RCMP operations in these areas.
The June report states, “Nevertheless, from time to time, these recommendations have been fulfilled with inaction or insufficient follow-up.” “As a result, long -standing issues remained and they were allowed to deteriorate.”
Public Safety Canadian spokesman Max Watson said that the department is committed to working with RCMP and others, to ensure that “public safety is equipped to meet the needs.”
The federation is calling a streamlined and modern RCMP application processing system, more training capacity and current $ 525 to increase cadet training allowance around $ 1,200 per week in a week.
The Federation says it wants more flexibility for some new recruitments, such as people of other law enforcement agencies, so that it can be easy for them to fit in RCMP.
For example, federation notes are only serving or recently passive police officers can apply through the three -week -old police officer program of RCMP, provided they meet strict norms.
The report stated that the Canada Border Services Agency members, including a member of the provincial sheriffs, conservation officers and other law enforcement agents, excludes a large pool of well -trained public security personnel.
Forcing these candidates to replicate the full 26 -week training program at the RCMP training depot “makes a barrier to recruitment and omission opportunities to bring skilled, experienced candidates in RCMP,” the report states.
It also states that the federal procurement process is very slow and universal for the immediate needs of modern policing, and there are drains of valuable government resources.
The report stated, “The delay in rolling life-safety equipment, including service pistol, body armor and body-puffed cameras, is threatened by both security and public trusts,” the report states.
During the spring election campaign, liberals promised to recruit 1,000 more RCMP personnel to deal with drugs and human trafficking, foreign intervention, cyber crime and car theft.
Liberates promised to create a new RCMP academy in Regina and increase salary for cadets recruitments.
Watson accepted the promise of appointing more mounts and said that public safety recruitment and recognition of cadet salary in widespread efforts to support retention.
RCMP did not respond to timely remarks request for publication.
The police force has been asked to trim two percent of its budget, which is as part of the government’s cost cut.
The Sow said that it is “carefully optimistic”, the liberal government would follow through its commitment to strengthen the law enforcement, on the May 1 mandate.
The RCMP provides policing services through contracts and regions except Ontario and Cubek. RCMP policing agreements cover North and all villagers from many cities and municipalities in contract provinces.
The police federation admitted that some people continue to ask if the RCMP should play the role of its contract policing in Canada and should be more like the FBI by focusing on federal criminal cases.
In March, before Mark Carney became Prime Minister, Liberals published a paper underlining a new vision for RCMP. This suggested that the force focuses on federal policing, its “reflects the required mandate and where it is best placed to lead the investigation.”
The Federation rejected the idea.
The June report said, “RCMP’s integrated PAN-Canadian policing model is one of its greatest strength, which is due to the ability to take advantage of coordination, stability and efficiency in all courts.”
This argues that by moving away from the current model, “there will be no evidence of better results, with deep service gaps, repetitions and expensive public safety and economic disabilities.”
The Federation asked for funding dedicated to federal policing, saying that RCMP officials who fulfill those duties should no longer be used to backstop vacancies in contract courts.
The report said, “Federal property should be used only for the federal mandate.” “If federal members are re-designed for non-union purposes, those services should be paid cost from contract partners.”
This report of Canadian Press was first published on August 9, 2025.
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