The RCMP Strategic Framework

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The RCMP Strategic Framework guides the work of all employees to achieve our goal of Safe Homes, Safe Communities. This document is intended to help further explain our Framework. The Commissioner encourages all employees to become familiar with it in order to understand how they can contribute to Safe Homes, Safe Communities in their day-to-day work.

INCREASING PUBLIC SAFETY TOWARD OUR GOAL OF SAFE HOMES, SAFE COMMUNITIES

We strive to achieve our goal of Safe Homes, Safe Communities by contributing to an increase in Public Safety. Ultimately, all of our organizational activities should enhance the safety, security and well-being of Canadians. The components of the Framework illustrate philosophies and activities that enable us to be successful in meeting this goal.

A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE

We are committed to providing Excellence in Service to members of communities across Canada and to our partners in Canada and around the world. Everything that we do, our operational activities, our management strategies and our priorities, assist us in delivering our commitments.

OUR PHILOSOPHIES – INTEGRATED POLICING, COMMUNITY POLICING

Our philosophies of Integrated Policing and Community Policing are critical in ensuring Excellence in Service and Safe Homes, Safe Communities. Our ability to integrate with other organizations with common priorities and goals enables us to maximize our resources, have a greater understanding of our local and international environments and increases our capacity to respond. Simply put, integration makes us more efficient and effective.

The RCMP vision of integration builds upon the Community Policing philosophy, which has been the cornerstone of our operations for many years. Through this philosophy, we proactively work with our communities to identify, prioritize and solve problems. At the heart of the community policing philosophy is consultation between the RCMP and its stakeholders, through consultative committees, citizen groups and other fora.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

Our priorities are carefully selected after rigorous scanning and analysis of the external environment. The selection of priorities allows us to strategically-focus on enhancing public safety. Each priority has its own strategy and Balanced Scorecard which articulates the desired outcome and the objectives we must achieve in order to reach our desired outcome. Each priority is championed by a Deputy Commissioner who leads a group, representing the business lines responsible for each strategic objective, focussed on ensuring the success of the strategy. This group is referred to as the Strategic Priority Working Group. All employees of the RCMP should be familiar with the priorities and should undertake to advance the priority’s strategic objectives whenever possible.

As stated each of our strategies has an “outcome objective” – a desired end state:

• Organized Crime: Reduce the threat and impact of organized crime.
• Terrorism: Reduce the threat of terrorist activity in Canada and abroad.
• Youth: Reduce youth involvement in crime as victims and offenders.
• Economic Integrity: Contribute to Canada’s economic integrity through crime reduction.
• Aboriginal Communities: Contribute to safer and healthier Aboriginal communities.

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

These operational activities are the essence of the way we do police work.

Prevention and Education: We contribute to the prevention of crime and the solving of community problems by working with our communities and applying various crime prevention practices.

Intelligence:We obtain information which we analyze and turn it into intelligence. We use this intelligence as the basis for our operational and administrative decisions. This is the essence of the Ops Model philosophy.

Investigation: We investigate to uncover facts and determine the most appropriate action to take.

Enforcement: We enforce laws through laying charges or applying alternative measures.

Protection: We provide general protection in cooperation with our partners to help keep Canadians and their communities safe and secure. We provide specific protection for internationally protected people and designated Canadians (Prime Minister, Governor General of Canada, etc.) and their residences/embassies.

MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

RCMP Management Strategies are adopted to ensure we are successful in driving out our priorities. They also ensure that we are effectively managing our resources and that our efforts are integrated.

Stewardship: We will effectively and efficiently manage all resources that have been entrusted to us.

HR Renewal: We willeffectively manage human resources in order to attract, develop and retain the best people to ensure operational readiness.

Horizontal Management: We will not work in ‘silos’. We will take a cross-functional approach to ensure we effectively and efficiently manage our resources. We will also benefit from one another’s expertise. (e.g. human resources, corporate management and comptrollership and information technology representatives working together).

Interoperability: We will ensure that the appropriate information is exchanged between the right people at the right time, with the proper levels of security and safe guards.

International Cooperation: We support Canada ’s foreign policy goals and promote national and international safety and security by maintaining strong global connections and International Policing capacity.

Performance Management: We establish priorities, develop strategies, set targets, track performance and align work activities and processes to achieve organizational goals.

OUR FOUR PILLARS – A FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE

Everything that we do to be a strategically-focused organization of excellence rests on our four pillars.

Intelligence: We rely upon well-founded intelligence, both for policing functions and for day-to-day management. Intelligence enables our activities to be guided by reliable, critical and timely information from within and outside our organization.

Values: We hold ourselves to a high standard. We are role models for our communities. Our behaviors and actions must at all times be based on our adherence to our core values: integrity, honesty, professionalism, compassion, respect and accountability.

Accountability: We are accountable for our decisions and actions. The RCMP’s accountability to its external partners in local communities, to other agencies and other government departments, guides its performance.

Bridge-building: To achieve our goal of Safe Homes, Safe Communities, we must build and maintain strong partnerships with colleagues, partners, government agencies and law enforcement, and most importantly, to the communities we serve.

OUR GUIDING LIGHT, EVERY DAY

All of these elements are important in building an Organization of Excellence. Your creativity, innovation and dedication surrounding all of these elements will help us reach our goals. The contributions of each and every employee are what make the RCMP a well-managed, responsive organization that meets the needs of the community. Every employee is encouraged to see how they can contribute to the goal of Safe Homes, Safe Communities in their work each and every day.