These changes will standardize and strengthen this important program, while permitting Auxiliaries to continue serving their communities safely. The RCMP will continue working closely with its ...

So essentially the whole program is under review at the moment," said Stevenson. RCMP Cpl. Scott Stevenson says auxiliary officers will no longer go out on patrol or be trained in gun use.

Murphy said he has written to Bob Paulson, the head of the RCMP, asking him to reconsider the move. The auxiliary officer program was introduced in Canada in 1963 to enhance community policing and ...

Backing up officers, however, is not the primary purpose of the auxiliary constable program. Insp. Christopher Culhane, Officer In Charge of Community Policing for RCMP K-Division in Edmonton ...

The fundamental question is what form a volunteer police program that started ... In January, 2015, RCMP Constable David Wynn and Auxiliary Constable Derek Bond were conducting a routine check ...

EDMONTON – The shooting of two RCMP officers Saturday in St. Albert has thrown a spotlight on the force’s auxiliary constable program. While gravely wounded Const. David Matthew Wynn is a ...

Garriock recommended Alberta RCMP adopt changes to the auxiliary program put in place in other provinces following Wynn’s death, and that the RCMP improve the radio communications systems.

"The RCMP are struggling to to meet the demands ... But one way to ease the pressure is to have an auxiliary program that would recruit retired officers to work as volunteers or part-time.

RCMP on P.E.I. say the role of auxiliary constables is undergoing a major change across the country — they're no longer allowed to ride along on patrol and will not be given firearms training. The ...