Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is imploring rural leaders to consider the merits of a provincial police force, promising that any added costs - projected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars - would not be downloaded directly onto municipalities.
Only nine per cent of Albertans say the provincial government should replace the RCMP with a provincial police service, a new survey commissioned by the National Police Federation suggests.
More than four-in-five Albertans in RCMP-served areas say they are satisfied with the policing the national force provides in their community, a new survey commissioned by the Mounties union indicates.
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is imploring rural leaders to consider the merits of a provincial police force, promising that any added costs -
Only nine per cent of Albertans believe the province needs to replace the RCMP with a provincial police force, suggests a survey commissioned by the RCMP’s…