The shift will take place within the RCMP’s federal policing branch, which is responsible for national security, drugs and organized crime, financial crime and border integrity. Just two weeks ago, a scathing interim report by retired RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German found there were “no federal (RCMP) resources in B.C. Currently, he said, federal policing loses about 200 of its 2,500 criminal investigators to attrition each year. The force is also making an effort to prevent organized crime investigators at the federal policing and local levels from tripping over each other. Traditionally, you had to work in uniform in general policing for several years before you could work complex files in federal policing, he said.

Source: National Post April 23, 2019 10:52 UTC