Areas on Vancouver Island served by the RCMP include the West Shore, Sooke, Sidney-North Saanich, North Cowichan-Duncan, Port Alberni, Nanaimo and Comox Valley.
B.C. municipalities must cough up millions in RCMP back pay after the federal government indicated it will not absorb retroactive contract cost increases associated with the Mounties’ latest collective agreement.
The money, which in many cases will need to be repaid to Ottawa over the next two years, covers services already provided as far back as 2017, rather than current or future policing needs. The UBCM estimates the collective cost to B.C. local governments for the RCMP to be between $138 million and $145 million.
Last April, after years without a contract, the RCMP’s roughly 20,000 members signed a new collective agreement, which included a $25,000 annual pay raise for sergeants and $20,000 for constables. Local governments were warned in advance of the increase, which brings compensation closer in line with municipal police departments.The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has been lobbying the federal government to absorb the retroactive costs.
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