I live in a small rural community where a number of years ago, there was an RCMP shooting incident. Two RCMP officers were shot and injured. Luckily, they were not killed, although there was a fatality in the shooting.
We hear a lot about overtime in the RCMP. I think sometimes RCMP officers depend on overtime and look forward to those extra hours.
Does the lack of resources play into this audit at all? You've mentioned a number of times that people were off on maternity leave and others were off sick, and maybe some of the recertification didn't happen.
I can tell you that sergeants or commanding officers in some of these detachments fear maternity leave because it leaves the detachment short. Does that play into this as well, as far as the recertification is concerned, because we just couldn't send someone to be recertified?