Saturday August 31, 2019
~ West Shore Voice News
A new position of Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) has been created in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), effective September 16, 2019.
Filling that position will be long-time career civil servant Kevin Stringer, who has served mostly with the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans (2001 to present, other than three years with Natural Resources Canada’s Petroleum Resources Branch during 2008-2010). Stringer is currently Associate Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
Stringer will report to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki (in the top job since March 2018), and play a lead role in the administrative management of the organization, it was stated in a release from the Prime Minister’s office on August 30.
Creation of the new executive administrative position indicates a government direction of wanting to provide a strong underpinning of organizational support to the RCMP as they take on additional objectives in the past couple of years.
Commr. Brenda Lucki has stated that her vision encompasses the needs of people within the RCMP. Vision 150 is her plan — “a constant process” — to modernize the RCMP. Part of that is looking at the mechanisms “to get us there — our people, our culture, our stewardship and policing services”, she said in a government interview in March 2019.