From my experience working with the senior leadership over the years and meeting with Commissioner Brenda Lucki and the north district within the RCMP, the Depot academy, and various senior leaders, I would say that the local RCMP officers who are serving our communities require our support as well. They require the support of the community members to help them solve crime.
If there's no working relationship, the criminal activity any community may have experienced cannot be resolved. It's important that the RCMP feel they can trust the community and that the community can also trust the RCMP or municipal service—it goes both ways—in order to solve crimes together.