Immigration: Oversight Committee

Criminal Acts Dept: In the past few years, the force has been subjected to the arrival and departure of five commissioners, the top manager for some 28,000 staff scattered across Canada, from sea to sea to sea and overseas. While each has brought particular strengths and weaknesses to the top job, the governance of the organization has for the most part remained static, according to Calgary Herald. It gives me little satisfaction to learn that at least some of my 1999 comments, as outlined in a paper titled The Politicization of the RCMP, may be up for discussion. While the paper was initially authored for my presentation to the American Society of Criminologists meeting in Toronto, it became widely circulated. Rather than take note of my comments, a senior member who was obviously representing the force's management at that time was quoted in a national newspaper as saying "the police operations of the RCMP are independent from political interference . . . there is a clear and distinct line between operations and the administration." With the imminent departure of Commissioner William Elliott, the RCMP merry-go-round has begun another revolution. The age-old saying that there has been a lot of water flowing under the bridge since 1873, when the North West Mounted Police was organized and challenged to bring law and order to Western Canada, most certainly holds true today. After some very unprofessional and, in some cases, criminal acts, we now understand that legislation is before Parliament calling for an independent oversight committee and for some much needed improvement to the various disciplinary processes. As reported in the news.
@t independent oversight, political interference