Prime Minister Stephen Harper has gone back to the ranks of the
Mounties and has chosen Bob Paulson as the next commissioner of the
RCMP, CBC News has learned. The official announcement is expected Wednesday. Currently working out of RCMP national headquarters in Ottawa, Paulson is the deputy commissioner heading up federal policing. Paulson, who served with the Canadian Forces and trained as a jet
pilot before joining the RCMP 25 years ago, spent most of his policing
career in British Columbia. He led several high-profile murder and
organized crime investigations and is widely regarded as an excellent
major crimes investigator and biker gang expert. Paulson, 52, rounded out his career after his move to Ottawa in 2005.
He was promoted to the rank of assistant commissioner and oversaw
national security criminal investigations, as well as contract and
aboriginal policing. In November 2010, Paulson benefited from disharmony
in the upper echelons of the RCMP when Commissioner William Elliott
turfed Raf Souccar as deputy commissioner overseeing federal policing
and hand-picked Paulson to take his place. Popular with frontline officers who see him as someone who respects
and rewards hard work, Paulson is also considered to be someone who gets
things done without getting mired in internal or external politics.
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