In Yukon, which is what I can speak of, as other people have said, the RCMP or the police are often all things to all people, and they're an expensive option. For us, the ability to move other service providers into the communities is sometimes limited, so part of the issue is how we support the RCMP and other police in their work, but also support communities with appropriate responses.
We're a small jurisdiction; we have very little ability to achieve economy of scale. We have three-member detachments in which members need holidays or need to move out, so we need to backfill them. Often this is done by air. It's all very expensive.
I would have to agree with others who have spoken that there are issues for which we need to have different resources, and things such as SCAN are part of this. Social services responses are part of it. Providing social services is really the largest cost.