Whereas the RCMP are overworked and understaffed when it comes to rural and remote areas of the Province: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM lobby the provincial government and the Solicitor General provide more resources to allow the RCMP to increase staffing resources in rural British Columbia.
Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General The Ministry has heard the concerns from local governments and is aware of the pressures facing front-line Provincial Police Service resources. In 2019, the provincial government provided new additional funds to the British Columbia RCMP to increase front-line resources at highest need, highest risk provincial detachment Units. This initiative also saw the creation of the Provincial Support Team PST which provides mobile, short-term relief to provincial detachment Units experiencing temporary resourcing pressures such as those resulting from vacancies, emergent incidents or events. The Ministry also continues to work with the RCMP, and internally to government, to address resources pressures across all areas of provincial policing responsibility in the province. This work includes addressing equity and accountability issues across municipal and provincial policing responsibilities at integrated RCMP municipalprovincial detachments in particular, adequately accounting for Provincial Police Service resources that provide services to multiple jurisdictions and ensuring that provincial resource levels are commensurate to the workload generated by provincial areas.