WHEREAS recent years have seen an increase in crime in British Columbia and as the Police Act of British Columbia requires that municipalities with more than 5,000 residents provide their own policing services, municipalities are facing unprecedented costs for additional policing resources; AND WHEREAS when a municipality retains the services of the RCMP to provide those services, payment of the provincially agreed upon rate is either made directly to the federal government or to the federal government via the provincial government The Police Services Division of the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General of British Columbia negotiates the terms and conditions of all provincial RCMP policing contracts with the federal government. The terms of the current agreement stipulate the Province is responsible for 90 of the share of the RCMP costs in communities with more than 15,000 residents and for 70 of the costs in communities with less than 15,000 residents: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the federal and provincial governments be urged to renegotiate the provincial federal cost sharing agreements to establish the federal share at 30 to enable all municipalities to further increase their crime fighting and prevention resources.
