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e-350 (Public safety)

E-petition
Initiated by Dave Langlands from Surrey, British Columbia

Original language of petition: English

Petition to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Whereas:
  • Auxiliary Constables have provided hundreds of thousands of hours of community policing support to communities throughout Canada;
  • Auxiliary Constables have provided hundreds of thousands of hours of support to Regular Members on patrol duties with limited injuries;
  • The RCMP Auxiliary Constable program has been in service in Canada for over 50 years with one incident of an Auxiliary being injured by gunfire;
  • Citizens volunteering as Auxiliary Constables know and accept the risks involved in being a police volunteer;
  • Auxiliary Constables provide a tremendous trained resource to Canadian communities in case of emergencies;
  • The benefits of having trained Auxiliary Constables throughout the country surpass the costs of training and outfitting Auxiliaries; and
  • Auxiliaries are the bridge between local communities and the Detachments they serve.
We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to:
1) Immediately halt the RCMP’s plans to terminate the Auxiliary Constable Program in Canada that would introduce a less effective Community Corps model;
2) Immediately restore Auxiliary patrol and community policing operations, in uniform, to the pre January 2016 policy timeframe;
3) Introduce a national training curriculum similar to the model used in British Columbia today;
4) Introduce a tiered Auxiliary Constable Program that increases an Auxiliary Constable’s responsibilities as higher levels of training and experience are completed;
5) Introduce national hiring standards closely resembling those used to hire Regular Members to reinforce the serious nature of the volunteer position Auxiliaries partake in; and
6) Introduce a national Auxiliary Advisory Committee comprised of Auxiliaries in each Division elected by peers.
Government response tabled on January 30, 2017 (Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-76-02)
Open for signature
May 18, 2016, at 3:13 p.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
September 15, 2016, at 3:13 p.m. (EDT)
Presented to the House of Commons
Sukh Dhaliwal (Surrey—Newton)
November 17, 2016 (Petition No. 421-00888)
Government response tabled
January 30, 2017
Photo - Sukh Dhaliwal
Surrey—Newton
Liberal Caucus
British Columbia