“We have not fallen below the standard of adequate and effective policing, but what it does do is put pressures on those officers that are carrying extra workload.” — Head of the RCMP in B.C., deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald
There are more than 1,500 vacancies in the RCMP in B.C. because of hundreds of unfilled positions and officers on leave, according to numbers provided by the RCMP.
Despite the 20 per cent vacancy rate, the head of the RCMP in B.C., deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald, said staffing shortfalls are not affecting community safety or the ability to carry out required basic policing, including responding to 911 calls. And it will drive up overtime budgets and affect services such as community policing offices, which provide information on crime prevention and safety in neighbourhoods, and are not part of the RCMP’s core services, he said.
Earlier this year, an all-party legislative committee looking into systemic racism in policing recommended B.C. shed the RCMP in favour of a provincial police force and the creation of regional municipal forces including in the Victoria area and Metro Vancouver. RCMP officials say factors affecting staffing levels and vacancies include attrition, retirement and lower than usual recruitment due to a declining interest in policing.He also pointed to social and political movements in the last two to three years that haven’t shone favourably on policing, in many cases, McDonald argued, unfairly.
But McDonald said the RCMP have less control over soft vacancies and there is an increasing awareness of mental stressors on the job and health issues such as post traumatic stress syndrome, more commonly known as PTSD.A 2021 Auditor General of Ontario audit of the Ontario Provincial Police Force found its detachments are increasingly understaffed with frontline officers.
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