The Government of Alberta (GOA) is conducting a Police Funding Model (PFM) review from May to July 2025. An independent contractor (MNP) is leading the review process, which aims to evaluate the PFM and identify potential changes to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of municipalities policed by the RCMP, with the goal of identifying potential changes to ensure that the PFM promotes long-term fairness, shared fiscal responsibility, and sustainability.
This review will include a survey, in-person regional engagements with elected officials, and virtual engagements with CAOs. Further information on dates and times will be updated here once known. View our most recent bulletin on the engagement process for more information.
If your municipality has not received information about in-person or virtual engagement sessions or a survey link, please contact RMA as we have heard from some members that they have not received information from the GOA and/or MNP.
It is RMA’s understanding that municipalities received a PFM survey link from MNP, which includes a variety of questions related to the PFM itself and policing service levels and costs more broadly. The deadline to complete the survey was July 4th.
All sessions known to RMA have passed.
CAO engagement sessions are currently underway, but RMA was not given details about participation.
The current PFM is significantly flawed. It places a disproportionate burden on rural municipalities to contribute to policing, has no alignment to service levels, and includes no provisions for transparency or accountability to municipalities in terms of how their contributions are used. RMA views the current engagement as an opportunity for the Government of Alberta to correct the current flawed PFM structure.
See below for various resources compiled by RMA to help prepare members for these engagement opportunities.
