The Alberta Government is moving ahead on plans to form a new Provincial Police agency legislation was tabled yesterday to build out the work that’s already being done by Alberta Sheriff’s The Province insists this is not a replacement for the RCMP yet here’s Terry reath the Alberta Government has introduced legislation that would turn
Some of its 1,000 sheriffs into full-fledged police officers but it is not calling it The Provincial Police Force right now the sheriffs do some of the work that police officers do such as Highway Patrol they Patrol the courthouse and uh the Alberta legislature but more and more they have
Been doing some of the work of police officers Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis says that they could be more effective if they were sworn police officers here’s how he explains that it would make a difference this agency would be able to take on more of those specialized police like functions that
The sheriffs have been uh taking over uh taking on over the years that includes functions uh like the past year when we deployed Alberta sheriffs to the Calgary and Edmonton to augment and support the efforts of the local police in dealing with crime and social disorder in the
Inner city now part of the rationale is that he says the RCMP simply can’t recruit enough officers to better serve rural Alberta and the other should the rcmp’s contract run out and the federal government not be interested in providing provincial policing that there would be a force that would be ready to
Step in but there are also political terms here the province and the conservative governments have been looking at a potential Provincial Police Force for some time now uh a way of distancing itself from the federal government however that idea just hasn’t gained much traction here last poll last
Fall said that only 23% of albertans particularly those in rural Albert would support a Provincial Police Force so the province going out of its way to say that’s not that that this will be a police Service Agency and that is some of the uh linguistic gymnastics that is
Uh that is going on here still no budget set for this uh agency uh and no timeline on its formation Terry wath CBC News Edmonton
The Alberta government has introduced legislation that will lay the groundwork for a new provincial police agency separate from the RCMP, but there is no timeline or budget for such a change.
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We need to be free with 2nd amendment no restrictions follow the constitution. It's simply put. ?
The new World Order Police under Government Supervision
More money spent than Alberta has to spare thanks to the UCP.
More waste of Albertan's money. UCP doesn't listen to the voters at all.
We do not need a "police agency". We need competent police
Sounds like more waste from the UCP. They cant do anything right. The rural areas certainly need more help from police services but I expect this to be a failure like everything else the UCP does.
Maybe she will make herself Queen of Alberta next.
Can't recruit enough for the RCMP, but somehow CAN recruit enough for a provincial police force?
Sounds likely.
Bring it on , RCMP is working for Trudeau and we all know it. The union NDP trolls on this feed should cry harder. Leave it to CBC to make up false stats on what Albertans want .
This will cost Albertians Billions of dollars, but wasting taxpayer dollars is what the UCP is all about. This idea was looked at under Ralph Klien and rejected due to the huge cost.
At least our province is trying to resist trudeau's dictatorship.
"One petty tyrant a thousand miles away or a thousand petty tyrants a mile away?" Guess which one suits only those who want the opportunity, and permission, to persecute their neighbors with impunity.
go for it Alberta, RCMP=high river gun grab , Coutts conspiracy, just to mention
Mike Ellis sounds like a parrot, trying to fulfill the interim Queen’s political desire to wash all things Canadian from the Alberta landscape.
Well this is dangerous… Any "special" police force in history has been misused and this will be no different.
RCMP cannot recruit enough. So in order to recruit a provincial force, you would have to have something better then their offerings. Don't think it will be more cost effective. People want more money.
about time and throw out the federal military force
I don't care one way or the other as long as they are decent police.You know, the kind that actually catch criminals and don't feed off fining good citizens. The RCMP sure don't do real police work any more.