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Sustainable Development Strategy
Sustainable development is inherent in the very nature of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) operations. For over 130 years, our relationship with Canadians has focused on supporting and nurturing the long-term health, wellness and public safety of the communities we serve.
By ensuring we have safe neighbourhoods and homes to live in and by maintaining peace and order for everyone, there is greater opportunity for individuals to demonstrate compassion and respect for the environment and the people they depend upon.
By balancing traditional and non-traditional policing roles, the RCMP ensures both short and long-term outcomes for communities and individuals. These outcomes include: safeguarding personal rights and freedoms; reduction of crime and the fear of crime; crime prevention; economic security and integrity; and social development.
The RCMP has established performance plans under three key priorities:
- Sustainable Communities,
- Corporate Governance, and
- Environmental Stewardship.
The RCMP’s 4th sustainable development strategy, Safe Homes - Sustainable Communities (2007-2009) continues to focus on enhancing our policing operations. Our goal is to add a new dimension to the immeasurable value that our officers bring to the lives of individuals and their families everyday.
| Key Priorities | Goals | Objectives | Targets | Initiatives |
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| Sustainable Communities | 1.0: Healthier and Safer Communities. |
1.1: The RCMP plays an active role in sustainable communities |
1.1.1: Community Partnerships |
- Continue working with Community Policing services to identify partnerships for sustainable development |
| 1.1.2: Aboriginal Communities |
- Continue working with National Aboriginal Policing services to identify partnerships for sustainable development |
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| 1.1.3: Youth | - Continue working with Youth Strategy to identify partnerships for sustainable development |
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| Corporate Governance | 2.0: Sustainable Development is a way of doing business for organizations of excellence. |
2.1: Value of sustainable development is demonstrated to the RCMP, its clients and partners and supports intelligence led decision-making |
2.1.1: Environmental Management Systems |
- Develop and implement environmental management system framework including environment database - Complete baseline data collection for key environmental program priorities based on risk |
| 2.1.2: Sustainable Business Practices |
- Establish SD review cycle and ensure greater linkage to RCMP business planning processes and strategies - Post-review of RCMP environmental policy suite |
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| 2.1.3: Green Procurement |
- Implement National Green Procurement Guidelines - Roll-out green procurement training - Develop roll-out strategy for any new PWGSC standing offers respecting green procurement - Develop corporate tracking system for green procurement activities |
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| 2.1.4 & 2.1.5: Capacity Building |
- Roll-out e-learning for storage tank managers - Participation in sub-committee for Canadian school of public service sustainable development training initiative - Participation in cross-departmental projects for common SD goals |
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| 2.1.6: Communications |
- Develop, implement and assess three-year communications strategy for SD programs and initiatives |
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| Environ- mental Stewardship |
3.0: RCMP physical operations support long-term conservation and restoration of our natural resource systems. |
3.1: Environmental Considerations are integrated into the life cycle management of RCMP asset and fleet operations |
3.1.1 & 3.1.2: Green Building Design and Energy |
- Develop specification for green building design by energy source, for new and existing RCMP facilities - Design and implement national process for accurate and timely data capture for energy information |
| 3.1.3: Contaminated Sites |
- Develop environmental emergency response protocol (high risk sites) - Develop standardized scopes of work for site assessments - Develop risk based replacement and management strategy for tanks - Develop total liability tool for internal performance reporting |
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| 3.1.4: Potable Water |
- Develop operating procedures for RCMP potable water systems - Conduct baseline testing for all RCMP owned potable water systems |
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| 3.1.4: Hazardous Materials |
- Establish protocols and standards for abatement of hazardous building materials - Compile inventory of RCMP hazardous materials - Update Halocarbon inventory and identify replacement strategies for halocarbon systems |
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| 3.1.6 & 3.1.7: Fleet Management |
- Roll-out targeted campaign for anti-idling and E10 fuel usage - Implement RCMP “leadership” vehicle policy |
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| 3.2: Environmental Considerations are integrated into the life cycle management of RCMP policing operations |
3.2.1: Policing Operations | - Develop capture tool to track regional initiatives for integrating environmental consideration into policing operations |
For the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, sustainable development is about making good decisions that will support and protect the safety and security of citizens while contributing to the long-term social, economic and environmental wellness of the communities we serve.
We look forward to greater knowledge and understanding of our capacities to support sustainable development; new ideas and innovations to move us beyond our strategy commitments of today; and fulfilling the shared expectations of all Canadians, our employees, the Government of Canada and the global Community.
