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RCMP by the Numbers
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- The RCMP has a $4.5 billion budget.
- Between 2000 and 2009, 20 RCMP officers died on duty. There have been a total of 220 RCM P deaths on duty since the inception of the RCMP.
- 155 civilians have died in RCMP-related incidents during the past nine years.
- So far this decade the RCMP has spent $124 million defending legal actions over deaths, injuries or misconduct - enough cash to build two Olympic hockey arenas.
- In 2007 the RCMP had to make 900 separate written requests to obtain $250 million in funding.
- Since Conducted Energy Weapons were first used by police, in Canada 20 people have died after being shocked with a Taser.
- By 2011, between 34-40 per cent of RCMP members will have fewer than five years of service. At the May 11, 2009 Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, Senior Deputy Commissioner William Sweeney estimated that the numbers in Alberta were closer to 55-60 per cent.
- Crime clearance rates plummeted for the RCMP between 1995-2004. Macleans magazine said this measure of success fell for RCMP from 80 per cent to 49-61 per cent for some types of crimes.
- 13 per cent of RCMP employees received a performance evaluation during the 2006-2007 year, according to the Brown Report on Governance & Cultural Change in the RCMP.
- From 1984 to 1990 Prime Ministers Mulroney and Chretien reduced the number of police officers in Canada to the point where the United Nations noted Canada ranked 25th among 29 nations surveyed for number of police officers per capita.
- The number of women and visible minorities has steadily risen within the RCMP during the past 10 years. The number of female officers rose from 14.3 per cent in 2000 to 19.9 per cent in 2009. Visible minorities increased fr om 4.6 per cent to 7.1 per cent during that same time period.
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