Equity in Funding for Municipal Police Services

WHEREAS municipalities in British Columbia who choose to establish their own municipal forces pay 100 of the costs of policing; AND WHEREAS municipalities in British Columbia who obtain policing services from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP through agreements between the federal and provincial governments pay either 70 for municipalities with a population of between 5,000 and 15,000 or 90 for municipalities with a population in excess of 15,000 of the total expenditures for policing, excluding overtime: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that UBCM work with the Province of British Columbia to change the process for funding municipal police services so that municipalities with their own police forces receive the same subsidies as those who contract with the RCMP.