Benn Benn:
Is the RCMP broken? Maybe, certainly at the top and some of it trickles down plus the lax recruiting standards on most regions over the last few years won't help. At any rate I wonder if letting their BC contract lapse won't solve much. Who would replace them on a Provincial Police Force? It's not like BC could snap its fingers and create experienced and trained officers to replace them, no the RCMP guys would patch over for the most part. If they really are arrogant about being the top force in the country then they would just continue to be arrogant as the top force in the province. The only benefit might be management and policy changes at the top. Something BC really have to think about before they resign a 20 year contract or don't.
You're right, a Provincial Police force would have to hire the current RCMP ocifers. But it would bring responsibility for that force closer to home and give a chance to organize it along less paramilitary lines. If they put somebody like Jim Chu in charge of it, who has made great strides in VPD accountability, (see the recent VPD Picton report), it would be off to a great start.
I'm sure having denyablity is one reason Campbell would not favor a Provincial Police.
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