The new commanding officer for the Manitoba RCMP has been in his new role for just over two weeks and brings 34 years of experience with the Red Surge to the position.
Assistant Commissioner Scott McMurchy was born in Rossburn and raised in The Pas, and considers it to be a great privilege and honour to be the province's new top cop.
"(Thank you to) the citizens of Manitoba for their support. I really appreciate this opportunity being from Manitoba. I am very invested in Manitoba and continuing in my role to support our front-line officers and our folks out there that are working in communities across this province, and providing them the tools and resources necessary to keep communities safe."
McMurchy sees staffing as being the biggest challenge facing RCMP in Manitoba.
But he adds that headway is being made in this area.
"We are very fortunate here in recent months to gain employees from other police services in Manitoba and outside of Manitoba joining us as experienced officers. And just in terms of talking to my recruiting team here in Manitoba it looks like it will take some time, but the tide is turning here with the wrapup of our training academy at Depot in Regina, where we are starting to see now some new members coming back into Manitoba."
