Saskatchewan’s top Mountie says a countrywide RCMP internal memo asking front-line officers to come and fill shifts in her province and in Manitoba is unusual but necessary.
RCMP have asked for members and reservists to sign up for two-week stints in the two Prairie provinces this spring.
Other staff vacancies, due to things like parental leave or injuries, were about 7.5 per cent, said Blackmore. “We've had 58 homicides in rural RCMP areas year, and we've never had that many. We've never had close to that many, and our members are burnt out," Bobby Baker, the National Police Federation's director for the Prairies, said in an interview.
In the meantime, the city has started a community safety officer program in partnership with the province to fill gaps. It is currently staffed with four officers and a supervisor employed by the city to deal with issues like shoplifting and traffic control.
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