The municipal council in Grande Prairie voted in favour of setting up its own police force and shifting away from the RCMP — a potential sign of things to come in Alberta.
Grande Prairie might prove to be the tip of the spear when it comes to a shift away fromIn a vote just after midnight Tuesday, the city’s council decided to set up a new municipal police force.
The National Police Federation, a union representing some 20,000 RCMP members, said the vote was almost unanimous with only one council member dissenting to ask for more time to study the shift. The move is expected to cost $19 million. The Alberta government recently said it would kick in $9.7 million over two years.several conversations across the country in recent years about the RCMP’s ability to effectively policeSurrey, B.C., the only municipality of its size in Canada without its own police service, is caught up inwith its own force. At the provincial level in British Columbia, an all-party panel of politicians recommended a provincial police force be set up.
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