WHEREAS local governments contract RCMP to provide policing on a cost share formula with the Province; AND WHEREAS RCMP have a professional code and self monitoring mandate: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that UBCM lobby the provincial government to ensure that all costs associated with RCMP self monitoring, defending themselves, or individual members in civil law or other malpractice allegations, be borne in total by the RCMP with provincial and federal funding and that no part of those costs, including monitoring equipment or temporary replacement staff, be borne by the local government.
Ministry of Public Safety Solicitor General Under the current RCMP Policing Agreements, the costs of legal services and civil claims are borne completely by the federal government. The Provinces position in the contract negotiations for the new agreements is that this arrangement should continue the Province and municipalities should not be responsible for any part of these costs. Canada has control over the internal management and operation of the RCMP the existing indemnity protects provinces and municipalities from the results of decisions and actions that are beyond their control.