‘Those emails took us by surprise:’ Justice ministry reacts to revelations on Sask. RCMP staffing
Officials with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Justice were as shocked as anyone to learn this week that RCMP vacancy rates are as much as five times higher than officially reported in some parts of the province.
650 CKOM obtained a trove of internal RCMP emails on Wednesday.
Those emails, dated Nov. 3, showed the commander of the police service’s northern district facing 15 per cent of positions sitting empty. Meanwhile, the southern district reported an eight per cent vacancy rate.
Both numbers are much higher than the 3.3 per cent vacancy rate reported at an RCMP news conferenceon Sept. 29.