RCMP Costs

• ‘Big hit’: B.C. municipalities facing large backpay bill to RCMP

  Communities like Osoyoos, B.C., are having to pay over $150,000 dollars in retroactive RCMP payments, as its population grew above 5,000. 

  Canada

  Apr 26, 2023
  
• New Brunswick municipalities cry foul over RCMP back pay bills

  Some municipalities are sounding the alarm over rising RCMP costs. Back pay from officers without a contract has forced some districts to pay bills in excess of $250,000.

  Canada

  Apr 10, 2023
  
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• Ottawa hints at relief for cities over RCMP retroactive pay, but offers no details

  Municipalities across B.C. are on the hook for salary increases going back to 2017 as a part of the RCMP's first-ever collective agreement, which was ratified last year.

  Politics

  Mar 30, 2022
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• B.C. RCMP facing financial shortfall of more than $10M, prompting cuts to some services

  "Our primary goal is for the communities in British Columbia where we serve, they wouldn't see an impact," said one RCMP spokesperson.

  Canada

  Nov 15, 2019
• Worried about policing costs; Osoyoos asks for recount

  “Forty-five per cent of the people who own property here do not live here full time so that sort of throws numbers off."

  Politics

  Mar 23, 2017