Program directory · Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Federal Operations Support
- Department
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Program code
- BXG06 (RCMP)
- Core responsibility
- Federal Policing
- In Departmental Plans
- 2019-20 – 2021-22 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
This program performs the essential task of supporting, advancing, and enabling operations by providing specialized support, direction, and training to operational units. It delivers national support for public and private partners with respect to critical infrastructure protection; a national witness protection program; undercover and covert operational techniques; guidance on the electronic storage, organization, management, and disclosure of information collected as part of a major investigation; assistance to police personnel in their preparation for disclosure; centrally-coordinated response to issues arising from public inquiries and civil litigation stemming from federal criminal investigations.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Police Operations | Earlier program (name match, low confidence) | 2010-11 – 2020-21 | $15.6B |
| Federal Operations Support | This program | 2019-20 – 2023-24 | $402M |
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Appears to be split across: Police Operations; rcmp-bxg03; rcmp-bxg05 | Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference) |
| 2021-22 | Spending $165M, against $113M in 2020-21 (+46%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Planned spending $76.1M, against $165M in 2021-22 (−54%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ≥ 100% | 2020 | 9764% 9764 assistance occurrences total. Due to methodological challenges, it was not possible to indicate the total number of assistance occurrences that were acted on. Serious and Organized Crime: 2630 (27%); Financial Crime: 2123 (21%); National Security: 754 (7%); Other: 4400 (45%). Domestic: 5,309 (54%) International: 4,455 (46%) | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 100% | 2021 | 100% Total Requests: 7285, Domestic: 3693 (51%), International 3592 (49%), Serious and Organized Crime: 1937 (26.6%); Financial Crime: 1656 (22.7%); National Security: 602 (8.03%); Other: 3181 (43.7%) While the number of information/assistance requests overall and by type is available, due to methodological challenges and records management system limitations, a further breakdown of the actions taken… | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 100% | 2022 | 100% While the number of information/assistance requests overall and by type is available, due to methodological challenges and records management system limitations, a further breakdown of the actions taken on each file (i.e. acted on) is not available. Efforts are underway to revisit this measure, including the clarification of definitions and data collection methodology. | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | $75.5M | $124M |
| 2020-21 | $76M | $113M |
| 2021-22 | $76.2M | $165M |
| 2022-23 | $76.1M* | — |
| 2023-24 | $76.2M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 580 | 662 |
| 2020-21 | 632 | 673 |
| 2021-22 | 686 | 731 |
| 2022-23 | 686* | — |
| 2023-24 | 686* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 plan | $75,543,251 | $71,617,804 | $71,617,168 | ||
| 2020-21 plan | $76,048,133 | $75,955,583 | $75,996,707 | ||
| 2021-22 plan | $76,213,220 | $76,087,893 | $76,219,841 | ||
| Actual | $123,971,658 | $113,126,087 | $164,772,308 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
