- TORONTO - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police could be facing a desperate
budget crunch.
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- Terry Smith, commanding officer of the
Surrey, B.C. office, sent an angry email message to a colleague at the
Vancouver headquarters. In the message, Smith wrote:
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- "Isn't is just about time we ...
stated the obvious - WE ARE BANKRUPT - WE CANNOT AFFORD TO PROVIDE THE
SERVICE EXPECTED OF US . . . the tools to accomplish the job are being
taken away ... This short tirade is just the tip of the iceberg . . .
we owe it to ourselves and our personnel to call a halt to this insanity
. . . I am watching a force I love disintegrate/self-destruct before my
eyes."
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- The budget crisis could lead to layoffs
on the force. In Ottawa, a spokesman for the solicitor-general said, "the
minister is aware of the financial pressures and is working on it ...
hoping to find some longer-term solutions ... but has more to do."
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- Terry Smith says he did not expect his
email to leak out. It does seem, however, as if his sentiments are shared
by many rank-and-file RCMP officers.
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