Criminals understand that police response times in rural areas can be slow, neighbours can be miles away, and rural regions are easy prey. Communities have started to respond by forming their own rural crime watches and conducting volunteer patrols in absence of a police presence. Rural specifics related to the RCMPThe first RCMP assignments disseminate new recruits to rural areas across Canada. In addition, RCMP recruits receive no specific training to prepare for life in rural areas or for remoteness and isolation. Awareness raising and suicide prevention in rural areasIn rural areas, the majority of those killed by firearms are suicides and almost exclusively men.

Source: National Post May 22, 2019 18:53 UTC