This week’s revelation that there are no federally funded officers in B.C. dedicated to criminal money-laundering investigations underscores a need for the RCMP to consider a drastic overhaul of its operations, experts say.
Some say the RCMP needs to get out of its municipal and provincial policing contracts so it can focus exclusively on federal policing and start rebuilding a reserve of investigative specialists with expertise in accounting and other areas, after years of churning out generalists.
“This is a good example of when chickens come home to roost,” said Robert Gordon, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University, who has for years argued that the force is stretched thin.
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