Member Updates, Media Releases, and News Coverage

The National Police Federation (NPF) argues Surrey’s proposed police transition would reduce the number of police officers in Surrey: giving people less for more, as taxpayers would be burdened with unexpected and growing costs related to the transition. Funding the […]

Last week RCMP Members successfully intervened with and arrested an individual who posed a significant threat at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. We have since been disappointed by commentary from multiple sources speculating on a potentially different outcome to the peaceful resolution of […]

The RCMP’s brass and union are pushing back against suggestions that the Rideau Hall break-in would have ended with violence if the suspect wasn’t white. https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/07/10/rcmp-brass-union-push-back-on-suggestion-rideau-hall-break-in-ended-peacefully-because-suspect-is-white.html

The RCMP Commissioner and the head of the force’s union say they are “disappointed” by commentary from those who have speculated there may have been a different outcome to an incident at Rideau Hall had the intruder been another race. […]