Twenty-one new police officers are being deployed across the province by the Alberta RCMP. Each is a recent graduate of the Cadet Training Program at Depot, the RCMP’s training academy, in Regina, Sask. (Image Credit: RCMP)

By Jesse Gill

RCMP recruits

Redcliff RCMP will have two new officers joining the detachment from Depot in April

Mar 25, 2026 | 12:49 PM

The Redcliff RCMP will have two new officers joining the detachment in April.

Detachment Commander Staff Sgt. Michael Courty says they have had two hard vacancies at the detachment for about a year now.

“They’re gonna fill those two, and that will bring our detachment up to full strength with all the positions occupied,” Sgt. Courty said.

“They’re scheduled to arrive one on April 1, and the other one starts their first shift on April 3.”

The Redcliff RCMP detachment at full staffing will include a Detachment Commander, two Corporal Supervisors and 12 Constables.

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“With having more people and having our members at full staff with the numbers, it allows us to have, more backup more people working at any given time,” Sgt. Courty said.

“If we have lower numbers, then they’re handling more calls for service, so that we get to kind of break it up a little bit.”

Redcliff is one of 20 detachments across the province where a group of 21 total new officers are being deployed by the Alberta RCMP.

Each one is a recent graduate of the Cadet Training Program at Depot, the RCMP’s training academy, in Regina, Sask.

The RCMP states that this equips them with the policing skills necessary to serve their new communities with excellence.

Officer applications to the Alberta RCMP since April 1, 2024, have exceeded 5,700.

Additionally, the Alberta RCMP’s Experienced Police Officer Program has hired 25 EPOs since the start of April 2025, with 33 applications currently open and being processed.

Additional locations that will soon be home to the new officers are Barrhead, Cardston, Chateh, Coronation, Drayton Valley, Fort Vermilion, High Prairie, Hinton, Lloydminster, McLennan, Piikani Nation, Provost, Red Earth Creek, Stettler, St. Paul, Valleyview, Vegreville, Wainwright, and Wood Buffalo.

“We recognize that police visibility and staffing levels remain key concerns for the communities we serve,” Commanding Officer of the Alberta RCMP and Deputy Commissioner Trevor Daroux said.

“These new police officers are an example of our focus to look inward at our hiring processes to remove barriers, find efficiencies, and ensure the most qualified applicants are chosen to serve your communities.”

An additional strategy used to address vacancies and temporary absences is the Alberta RCMP’s Relief Team, with locations in Cochrane and Leduc.

They will provide frontline support to communities facing vacancies, injuries or major events.

A total of 65 deployments have already been planned across 16 detachments in Alberta in 2026.

Alternate Service Delivery Models for remote and isolated locations are also being used, including an Implemented Fly-In Model in Fox Lake.

Supporting frontline policing across the province are 34 active reservists, with 11 more within the application process.