If there is job dissatisfaction in the RCMP, you won't find much in northern B.C.
Media reports last week suggested 60 per cent of the province's redcoats considered quitting the force last year out of workplace frustration, quoting an internal survey of 2,569 RCMP members.
If anyone in the northern half of the province (1,000-plus members at 42 detachments) is disgruntled at work, they go to Staff Sgt. Metro Yakiwchuk stationed at North District headquarters in Prince George. For the past five years, in lieu of a union, he has been members' elected staff representative for workplace grievances. Surely he would have heard of a pattern of discontent?
"Ah, no, actually. North District members on the whole are quite happy," he said. "The morale is pretty good in the north."
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