Superintendent Kevin Kunetzki, District Officer for the South District Management Team answers questions at the Swift Current Rural Detachment Town Hall meeting in Swift Current on January 16.

challenges and changes that we have in today’s world. It’s different in 2020 than it was in 2010 and in 2000. So if we’re not always continually evaluating our processes, while that’s a problem.”

He countered that moving towards a super-hub policing model would provide them greater flexibility that would allow the RCMP to have the right amount of officers to be sent at the right time to the right locations.

The review process is being led by MNP, who were tasked with gathering the town hall meeting feedback, and will be doing additional work before propose some operational ideas to the RCMP.

Chad Lins, Partner and Business Advisory with MNP Consulting in Winnipeg, said during the Swift Current meeting that the town hall feedback allows the public to be informed early in the review process.

“We’re coming to you as early as we can to collect as much information as we can from you to get a sense of where are the elements that you really like about how the service is delivered to you right now. What are some the elements you don’t like. And that will give us kind of the goalposts to kind of guide us as we look into models.”

Lins added that their efforts will push the boundaries on how RCMP members are deployed.

“We’re going to push them in ways. We’re going to question them on some of the policies that they have that, over time, have become a bit restrictive in allowing members to be a little more flexible in some of their arrangements.”

Supt. Kunetzki said having an outside source guide their review will give them some expanded options as they look to adopt a superhub policing model.

“We’re not trying to solve them ourselves. And that’s traditionally how we’ve done them,”supt. Kunetzki said.

“We’re looking at other ways to help figure out some of these problems and find different solutions that maybe we can’t see on our own. And so by having a consultant come in and take a look at what we’re doing and be part of some of our consultations, we’re hoping that that might provide a different way or a different perspective of looking at some of the problems and different ways of solving them.”

“These issues are complex,” he said. “You require a discussion between people and the community to understand what it is that we’re facing and some back and forth communication.”

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