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.
Also note that that it is RMA’s understanding that municipalities within the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills provincial electoral riding may not receive information from the province on the engagement until after the by-election due to pre-election government communication restrictions. Municipalities within the riding that are seeking more information on the engagement process are encouraged to contact RMA.
Four in-person regional engagement sessions for elected officials were previously announced. The GOA informed RMA that they are changing their engagement approach and will likely shift engagement to primarily virtual mechanisms, although some in-person sessions may still be held in late June or early July.
Time, date and format not yet known.
Virtual engagement sessions will be held for CAOs.
Time, date and format not yet known.
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.
