Strategic Framework

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The RCMP Strategic Framework guides the work of all employees to achieve our strategic goal. Successful execution of all elements found within the framework helps to ensure that the organization is collectively and directly contributing to its strategic goal of ensuring a safe and secure Canada.

The Senior Executive Committee (SEC) encourages all employees to become familiar with the framework in order to understand how they can contribute to achieving our strategic goal in their day-to-day work.

Our Strategic Goal

We strive to achieve our goal of a safe and secure Canada 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 elements of the framework illustrate the activities and strategies that enable us to be successful in meeting this goal.

Our Core Policing Activities

These are the very essence of police work; the ways in which we provide service to the public. Our dedication to service, crime prevention, protection, law enforcement and intelligence are the basis for everything the RCMP does.

The RCMP's core policing activities are:

• Service: We provide policing services to communities and deliver vital operational support to other law enforcement agencies within Canada and abroad.
• Crime Prevention: We contribute to the prevention of crime and the solving of community problems by working with our communities and applying various crime prevention practices.
• Protection: We provide protection to help keep Canadians and their communities safe and secure and respond to legislated requirements to provide protection services to select individuals requiring security.
• Law Enforcement: We enforce laws through laying charges and/or by applying alternative measures.
• Intelligence: We obtain information to analyze and develop intelligence to serve as the basis for operational and administrative decision-making processes.

Our Program Activities

These are a general inventory of the types of services we provide to Canadians.

• Police Operations: We provide policing, law enforcement, crime prevention and protective services to Canadians, the federal Government and its departments and agencies and to the various Provinces/Territories, Municipalities and Aboriginal communities.
• Law Enforcement Services: We support Canadian and international law enforcement communities through leading-edge initiatives, provision of critical intelligence equipment and technology and through education to help optimize the delivery of proactive intelligence-based policing services.
• International Operations: We contribute to Canada's global peace agenda through support and involvement in international law-enforcement communities to address transnational crime and terrorism. This is conducted through relationship building with international policing partners, participating in the INTERPOL information sharing network, conducting extra-territorial criminal investigations and participating in Canadian missions abroad.
• Canadian culture and heritage: As an internationally recognized symbol of Canada, we deliver cultural activities such as the Musical Ride and ceremonial support for special events.
• Internal Services: We rely on modern management principles and practices to enable our organization to deliver on our operational commitments.

Our National Strategic Priorities

The RCMP's strategic priorities are carefully selected after consideration of information from a variety of sources. This includes an analysis of the external environment, examination of operational and tactical issues and consultations with our partners. The selection of priorities allows us to strategically-focus on enhancing public safety and security. All employees of the RCMP should be familiar with the priorities and should undertake to advance the priority's strategic objectives whenever possible.

• Serious and Organized Crime: Reduce the threat and impact of serious and organized crime.
• National Security: Effectively respond to threats to the security of Canada.
• 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.

Our Strategies

We have a number of strategies in place to help us to focus on those activities we are mandated to do and to deliver on our strategic priorities:

• Leadership: Every RCMP employee can demonstrate leadership according to their actions and interactions through respect and trust. As for Managers, they will communicate effectively, adapt to policing challenges and ensure that employees have the resources and competencies they need.
• Communications: Communication is everyone's responsibility. At all levels of the organization, the RCMP will create a culture of open communications reflecting transparency, accountability and integrity.
• Continuous improvement: The RCMP has adopted a long-term approach to ensure it never stops examining and measuring its own work processes to find better ways to achieve its goals.
• Tailored services to contract partners’ priorities: Contract policing accounts for 70 per cent of the RCMP’s operational capability. In order to provide good services to citizens and communities, the RCMP will strive to provide assistance to contract partners.
• Crime reduction: The RCMP takes a comprehensive, multi-faceted problem solving approach to addressing the causes and effects of crime with practical applications that will result in a concrete and measurable reduction in crime.
• Community policing: Community policing plays an important role in the RCMP by building partnerships between the police and the communities it serves.
• Integrated policing: Partnerships remain at the core of the RCMP's success in delivering efficient and effective policing services to our clients and citizens, by working with other law enforcement partners at all levels of government and the justice system, the RCMP will ensure cohesiveness in the delivery of services and protection of citizens.

Our Core Values

In striving to ensure that ethical principles are an integral part of all aspects of the RCMP's service delivery, we are guided by a set of core values.

The six core values of the RCMP are:

• Honesty: is being truthful in character and behaviour.
• Integrity: is acting consistently with our other core values. (Upholding the ethical and social norms of the RCMP).
• Professionalism: is having a conscientious awareness of our role, image, skills and knowledge in our commitment to quality client oriented service.
• Compassion: is demonstrating care and sensitivity in words and action.
• Accountability: there are two components of accountability:
  • The first is the process of rendering an account to those from whom we derive our authority of what we did, why we did it, how we did it and what we are doing to improve performance or results.
  • The second component is "answerability" - the obligation to provide information to others in our communities of interest with respect to our decisions, actions and results in light of clear, previously agreed upon understandings and expectations.
• Respect: is the objective, unbiased consideration and regard for the rights, values, beliefs and property of all people.

Delivering a World-class Police Service

Proud of our traditions and confident in meeting future challenges, we are committed to excellence in preserving the peace, upholding the law and providing quality service to the communities we serve and to our partners in Canada and around the world. Everything that we do assists us in our pursuit of our vision for change to be an adaptive, accountable, trusted organization of fully engaged employees, demonstrating outstanding leadership and providing world-class police services.

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