But someone from a different police force could be able to get internal buy-in while leading the service in a new direction, added King. And as we all know now, police agencies are very, very kind of closed.”Ī civilian may struggle in that sense. “If you’re going to bring about a systemic change within the RCMP, you may need someone who is not a part of the RCMP culture.
“I don’t think there’s anybody who’s arguing that that isn’t necessary,” he said. King said it will be necessary for the next appointee to help usher in systemic change and get buy-in from members. It was a controversial move by the federal government, said King, and it brought internal dissent at a time when the RCMP was facing perceptions in the public that it had problems with its culture. William Elliott, a senior public servant, was in the role from 2007 to 2011. There was a civilian appointed as RCMP commissioner under Stephen Harper’s government.
Whoever is tapped to lead the Mounties will have to help a force facing widespread resource shortages, systemic problems under the public microscope, and a changing landscape when it comes to where in the country the RCMP will be deployed.ĭoug King, a justice studies professor at Mount Royal University, said appointing someone without policing experience isn’t realistic - but giving the job to someone outside of the RCMP may be just what the service needs. “You know, if we’re talking about a civilian, the morale of the membership would probably not appreciate that as much.” There’s a lot of police leaders out there who are qualified and could probably take up the charge. “You might bring in someone who was a former chief of the OPP, or someone from Calgary, or Vancouver, I don’t know. Sauvé leads the National Police Federation, a union representing 20,000 RCMP members across the country. “You could bring in someone from, I have no idea, the London Met,” Brian Sauvé told the Star during a recent interview in downtown Edmonton.
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