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You asked “What is this thing to be on call anyway?” What that means is that even though the RCMP officer has put in his or her 12 hour shift he or she is tied to their cellphone having to respond to any other complaints received during normally less busy times. The officer is not paid for this “on call” time they are only paid if they are called in to work. While they are “on call” even though they are not at work, they are not free to travel away from their detachment area.

And who lives in interest free homes. RCMP members pay interest on their mortgage the same as everyone else. Some live in rental accommodations owned by the government, but the rent is usually ridiculously high and the accommodations sub-par.

The reason why you have RCMP members “on call” is because the communities that they serve are too cheap to foot the extra money to have more police officers. If a town will only pay for 2 police officers, how do you have 24hr policing? You make the 2 officers work their shifts and then also force them to take extra calls when they are off duty, whether they want to or not.

I challenge you to actually research the amount of “unpaid” time that RCMP members put in to their jobs and their communities. The numbers will shock you.

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Shediac New Brunswick has a cost cutting measure- they hired private security to police their downtown. They are much cheaper than the RCMP and for the price, I am sure are doing a much better job!

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Do you really expect an honest answer to this question?
Never mind rural Detachments try other detachments.

What is this thing to be on call anyway?
Is this just a nice way for officers to be paid over and above regular pay like a brown bag deal while they rest cozy miles from their postings in their interest free homes only to come in the next day to the office for regular duties rested?

This may help to explain why it cost so much for the RCMP, like 250,000 dollars and up for a small town, and why no one ever sees a police cruiser drive by.

What happen to honesty and what happen to the Public Safety during the night? Is this out now with the shortage of RCMP members, is this out the door too?

Is it that they are short or want to be short, I would like to know?

They had to close down a part of the CNR in the east coast because they were loosing too much money; the problem wasn’t that they weren’t making money with the railroad the problem was they had to many CHIEFS and not enough INDIANS and it was costing too much to much to operate.

Maybe we just need to ask more volunteers to come in and patrol at night the streets of our small towns so we can allow our highly paid members to rest more securely and collect the pay they didn’t seem to earn on the back of the volunteers.

This stand by easy pay should be abolished immediately and they should patrol at nights like they are contracted and suppose to. If they don’t, don’t pay them.

I wonder what people would do if a company gave this kind of service? No dough it would be perused to recover the money they took.

I’m wondering if this police force has now become a 9-5 job with overtime pay while they sleep cozy snuggled in their own beds. I must be speaking of Sergeants and up here.

I challenge anyone to call your local RCMP detachment after hours to see if you get an officer or an answering machine and come and post the response you get there when you call. Lets do a survey to see if they are even there after hours.

About management it’s hopeless to think anyone of them could be held accountable for merely making faults comments. Are they not trained to do this.

Good luck trying to make those guys say UNCLE.

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