A stronger role for the RCMP’s management advisory board, as suggested by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, will do little to solve its fundamental problems, say an Ottawa criminology professor and some retired Mounties.
Mendicino said in early June that his department was looking into “how best to strengthen the oversight role of the RCMP’s Management Advisory Board.”
The Liberal government created the board in 2019, and the party’s last election platform promised to “enhance” the board “to be in line with other Canadian police services to have full oversight over the RCMP.”
In a recent interview with The Canadian Press (CP), Mendicino said the board would need to communicate regularly with his office to help build Canadians’ “trust and confidence” in the force. This would include producing reports that his office can then use “to advance public discourse” about the RCMP….