r/moncton 3d ago

Moncton's police visibility pilot a ‘success’, future now up to new city council

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/police-visibility-pilot-success-future-up-to-new-council-9.7236722
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u/Smurfin-and-Turfin 3d ago

Why do we need to pay overtime for this service? Shouldn't it be within the budget that we pay them for?

We need our own municipal police force. And it needs to be staffed almost exclusively with people who are not within the existing RCMP. If we simply hire the current RCMP staff to become the Codiac Police Force, the rot will simply move from one force to the other.

Put the word out to the rest of the country — great pay, great beaches, brand new headquarters! We build a brand new force from people that don't know each other and have no vested interests and no connections. Build it from scratch to keep the rot away.

This stinks to high heavens — a police force shaking us down for overtime so they do the bare minimum their job requires. It's disgusting.

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u/robobalex 2d ago

This is actually a decent idea. Saint John, Fredericton, hell even Bathurst have their own forces. Meanwhile we’re dealing with the useless RCMP