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The RCMP in British Columbia is cutting more than $10 million from its provincial policing costs, which include small rural detachments, and some of the funding for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team and the anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Jennifer Strachan sent out an email last week stating that due to a deficit, cuts to overtime, travel budgets and other discretionary expenses would have to be made immediately.

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Strachan said in the email, a copy of which was obtained by Postmedia, that provincial policing costs “exceeded our spending authority” last year and “we are forecasting a similar situation this fiscal year.”

“As you are aware we are not permitted to run a deficit budget, simply put, we can’t spend more than we are given. Individual budgets may appear to have available funds, however, cumulatively, we do not have enough funds,” she said.