Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon to the committee. I want to thank you for the invitation to present today. My name is Brian Sauvé. I was recently elected and confirmed as the president of the National Police Federation, representing almost 20,000 members of the RCMP across

Finance committee  Depot is the only place we train police officers.

Finance committee  Yes. That's in Saskatchewan, in Regina.

Finance committee  It's a little odd to have a labour group asking for an employer's increase in funding. However, I can tell you what—

Finance committee  It is a legitimate question. I can tell you that right now the plan is to put 40 troops through Depot per year. They've been doing that for about three years. However, Depot is only funded for 18. Our contracting partners in the divisions that have us as police of jurisdiction ar

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Just to clarify, we didn't submit that white paper.

Finance committee  It was written and researched by the Senate.

Finance committee  Former senators Colin Kenny, Thomas Banks—

Finance committee  Just to be clear, it wasn't me. We didn't write it. It's way too deep for me.

Finance committee  Mental health is a lively topic today in the first responder community: fire, police, paramedics, even the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces. It has been for a number of years. Suicide rates are through the roof. The RCMP has addressed this and tried to

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me to appear today. My name is Brian Sauvé. I am the president of the National Police Federation. The NPF is the certified bargaining agent representing close to 20,000 front-line members of the RCMP across Canada

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. We've been on record at the National Police Federation, as I believe have the commissioner and the public safety minister, in support of body cameras for the front-line membership of the RCMP. I think the challenge we're running into right now, as

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Morrison. Resourcing has been a challenge in the RCMP for the last five years, if not longer, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we really haven't adopted any police resource methodology. When our contracting partners are speaking about a commun

Public Safety committee  For sure. Thank you. Obviously, we do send our young members who graduate from Depot all over Canada. Part of this conversation, and part of the conversation I should be having with the commissioner, is how we can improve the ability to deploy our resources to set those members