RCMP recruitment is declining so sharply the Mounties can’t spare constables for the Musical Ride, says an internal audit. Hiring private equestrians to pose as police was contemplated but deemed too risky if the public found out, said the report: “Legitimacy and effectiveness of the Musical Ride could be negatively impacted if the riders were not police officers.”
They need those horsemen for crowd control. There might be an uppity old lady somewhere in the country that needs a hearty trampling, y’know.
Those were from the TPS mounted unit, because the musical ride would never risk their horses in that manner.
All the more reason to disband the TPS mounted unit… it would also save a whole bunch of money.
Phantom that was the Toronto Police that did the tramping. RCMP musical ride guy was salivating at it and urging his co-conspirators to include in their practices: “just watched the horse video – that is awesome”, “we should practice that manoeuvre”.
RCMP musical ride guy was also “Time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground”.
.. but deemed too risky if the public found out,
Never stopped you before.
Tough to get normies to sign up as minions for the State of Thuggery,if the onlyperks are riding roughshod over Grandma.
However I am sure the Yellow striped thugs are recruiting heavily form Justine,s New People.
Even better scheme than their Mr Big theatre and Murderous Informant System.
Serve and Protect?
What?
And Who?
“recruiting heavily form Justine,s New People”
They’re good recruits. They don’t have the same qualms about pointing a weapon at a Canadian, particularly an “old stock” ‘Canadian like me.
What Does the RCMP do besides gobble down tax money? Because it certainly is not policing and there hasn’t been any need to carry bags across the boarder for illegals since the crossing was fenced.
Oh come now. Somebody has to slap the crap out of David Menzies, and I’m too old and feeble to do it myself.
Musical Ride sounds like a euphemism for government teat sucker.
It can all go to hell.
That’s Juthtins legacy: destroy Canada.
So why should the Mounties be exempt?
The AB contract for policing with the Federal Gov’t provides for 1911 RCMP officers.
The Federal Gov’t is currently providing 1522 RCMP officers to AB.
Put it on the list of items the federal gov’t provides to the west where it fails. It’s a long long list…
AB continues to pay full price for these none existent 400 officers, because apparently in Canada “a contract is a contract” (try to not think of NFLD’s Churchill Falls +50 years fiasco with Quebec here..)
Can’t find the link, AB Minister of Public Safety Mike Ellis tweeted about this in March and he tweets every day so… it’s in the stack somewhere.
Also, “Free Alberta Strategy” sends emails to me every week with this sort of federal fail in it.
I like horses, maybe it’s more than “like” but I don’t care if the RCMP has them for show & display purposes while the rest of national security sucks. Maybe cut the section of the RCMP imposing their idiotic opinions on guns if they need to save a buck.
They’re unionised now, so never mind… I wish the muslims would unionise lol…
the Alberta government should require those officers to line up for their pay checks in a random city each month to make sure they all exist.
Be happy you are only 20% short staffed.
The rcmp as a whole is short 3000 members.
Thr sask contract is 27% understaffed.
Shaunavon is currently temporarily amalgamated with Pontiex. For most of this summer, these 2 detachments that are supposed to be 5 people each… will have 5.5 officers between them.
Morse is supposed to be an 8 man detachment. But they are currently being provided out of moose jaw…. because they have only a single member at the moment.
These are huge areas that are effectively without service.
Did simply being honest about it ever occur to them? Nah I doubt it, not in their repertoire.
Woke RCMP is like the woke military – those best qualified for the job find the idea repulsive.
Gee, who could have seen that coming?
Never forget what these RCMP scum did. My support for the Blue Line died that day, and so did the RCMP’s chance of ever attracting any new recruits with moral fortitude.
https://www.rebelnews.com/rcmp_monitored_journalists_scrubbed_social_media_accounts_after_leaked_messages_of_cops_bragging_about_trampling_convoy_protesters
Most rural detachments in the west are woefully understaffed and the situation is getting worse. There used to be a detachment office in Headingley, Manitoba, but now everything is run out of Stonewall, about 50 kms away. If I need the police where I live, they will be dispatched from either Stonewall or Carman, both of which are about 100 kms from my house.
Last fall a neighbor driving to his combine in the field was subjected to what could only be described as borderline harassment by an RCMP officer who claimed he rolled through a stop sign. At one point, the officer pointed to a recycling bin in the back seat of this truck and asked if there were drugs in it. After giving him a ticket for not having his license on his person to drive a mile to the field, the officer drove on to find another farmer who had parked his grain truck on the road. After unsuccessfully fishing for an offense to charge him with and the farmer expressing annoyance over the interrogation, the cop made him blow into a breathalyzer.
Yeah ,well now everyone who get stopped in Saskatchewan gets to blow in the breathalyzer. Correction- must blow. As the borg say – you must comply.
Depends where in Saskatchewan. Two-cop towns show a little more leeway. Their kids and your kids will see each other in school on Monday.
When you’re on the ground under a horse sticking a knife in its belly and ripping it’s guts out tends to refocus it’s mind.
Never a shortage of riders for the Stomping Horses though.
Will there be enough to clean up the horse shit after the ride?
The final chapter in the march west.