The RCMP has earmarked $275,000 a month to cover hotel bills for officers brought in from across the country to bolster security on Parliament Hill.
OTTAWA—The RCMP has earmarked $275,000 a month to cover hotel bills for officers brought in from across the country to bolster security on Parliament Hill, the Star has learned.
Extra Mounties have been reassigned in the wake of the Oct. 22 attack on Parliament to deal with what the RCMP has called a “critical shortage” of manpower.
The RCMP has been tapping its new recruits to help fill the gaps. As new officers graduate from “Depot” — the RCMP’s training academy in Regina — they’ve been getting short-term assignments to Ottawa to patrol Parliament Hill.
One or two “troops” of RCMP cadets at a time — 30 to 60 officers — are being rotated through the capital on two-month assignments before being sent to their first permanent postings, one source familiar with the arrangements told the Star.
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