After years of headlines about toxic behaviour and sexual harassment in the ranks, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is reporting it's falling far behind on hiring women and visible minorities.
The police service says it needs to hire more than 5,100 women to the regular ranks to make up for a 27 per cent shortfall.
When it comes to hiring visible minorities, the Mounties are reporting a shortfall of around 1,140 regular members, or 6 per cent of the total.
"Until there's some major changes ... they're going to be hard-pressed to recruit new people," said Janet Merlo, a former RCMP constable who quit in 2010 and became one of the lead plaintiffs in a multi-million dollar sexual harassment class-action lawsuit.
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