Alison Crawford (CBC) – RCMP top brass took home more than $1.6 million in extra pay in 2009-2010.
According to documents provided by the RCMP, the Mounties’ six deputy commissioners were paid a total of $224,419 in at risk pay and bonuses, which when divided equally, works out to a little over $37,000 each. The force paid its 33 assistant commissioners a total of $358,296 in extra pay last year and its 77 chief superintendents an additional $1,033,101.
A spokesperson for the RCMP says the Commissioner has authority over the additional payments but bases his decisions on the Treasury Board’s performance management program for executives. The Treasury Board defines at risk pay as a percentage of an individual’s salary based on the successful achievement of commitments. Bonuses are also a lump sump payment “based on the individual’s demonstrated performance that has surpassed expectations.”
Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland questions whether the time is right for bonuses. “When you’re in a fiscal climate that is tight, when the mantra is austerity, one must ask whether we can afford these payments.”
Many executives across the civil service receive similar payments every year. What’s different about the RCMP though, is the high level of dissent among its top cops at the time those bonuses would have been doled out. The breaking point came in July when several deputy commissioners complained to the Privy Council Office and Public Safety department about what they described as the arrogant and insulting management style of Commissioner William Elliott.
The budget authority held by these over paid individuals represents the funds with which the RCMP has to further its overall safe homes and safe communities mandate. Managers are rewarded for fiscal responsibility, supposedly.
So to come in under budget and have xxx dollars in unspent funds returned, means that somewhere investigations or programs go lacking, decrepit buildings go unrepaired, or as Calvin mentioned, officers go without proper equipment/compensation. As everything is based on percentages, the ultimate holder of the purse dictates his own recompense. Not a preferable situation for police departments in my opinion.
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“six deputy commissioners were paid a total of $224,419 in at risk pay and bonuses,
The force paid its 33 assistant commissioners a total of $358,296 in extra pay last year and its 77 chief superintendents an additional $1,033,101″.
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I once mentioned so called performance bonus pay on another RCMP Watch article some time ago. I believe DT commented that I should have know the detailed process after 28 years with the RCMP.
I guess I really did not want to know the details because I did find this process so disgusting and repulsive.
In all contract policing regarding the RCMP members performing their duties; voluntary overtime is (was) required. Without monetary concessions by members the working force would come to an abrupt halt. It was often referred to as volun-told. Often RCMP members were nickled and dimed on their expense claims and overtime submissions.
These were not the carpet cops, but members who did the ground work at all hours of the day and night. They did not have a plush office and work an 8 to 4 job. What would Commissioned Officers do if they had to live on their salaries?
To pay this money to police managers while everyday working members sometimes go without equipment, training, and have to work voluntary overtime is WRONG!
Calvin Lawrence
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