Municipal Police Forces Obtaining Financial Support to Uphold the National Security Policy

WHEREAS the federal government has recognized the role of policing and enforcement in upholding the new National Security Policy; AND WHEREAS the federal government has allocated a sum of 690 million from unused, pre-designated Budget 2001 allotments, Budget 2003 contingency reserves and further supplemented by Budget 2004 funds; AND WHEREAS the federal government has directed these funds to six strategic areas: intelligence, emergency planning and management, public health, transport security, border security and international security; AND WHEREAS these monies have been earmarked for federal departments, including the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP, with neither acknowledgment that municipal policing forces conduct intelligence and policing activities in lieu of these agencies nor any mention of directing funds to municipal policing forces that may engage in the same activities: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Union of British Columbia Municipalities urge the federal government to acknowledge the vital role that municipal policing agencies play in supporting Canadas National Security; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Union of British Columbia Municipalities encourage the federal government to establish proportionate funding schemes, prorated on RCMP allotments, and control mechanisms for municipal police forces engaged in activities of national importance.