RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT - Through the Years

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RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT THROUGH THE YEARS Upon reporting to the Commanding Officer in Winnipeg, in my new blue uniform, he actually made me turn around in it so he could see it all! Weird. But then he was an Assistant Commissioner and I was just a brandnew Inspector. My role as “D” Division Informatics Officer was to plan, design, and deliver the multi-million dollar Telecommunications, Information Technology and Information Management programs of the RCMP in the Province of Manitoba, which included the successful presentation of a then-$50 million communications system requirements plan to senior RCMP executives and Provincial Government Ministers. I had a team of approximately 60 personnel including civilian and uniformed specialists, analysts, functional experts and police technical specialists and was responsible for the technical, budget, scheduling, performance, and training of those personnel. Over the course of the next 4 years, I planned, designed and managed the rapid computerization of the RCMP in Manitoba. There were no desktop computers in the Division when I arrived, and when I left, there were too many to count, and almost everyone was happy! I created solutions specifically addressing transformation from a paper-based to paperless, electronic operational records system, which was to be one of the most successful in the country. I introduced the RCMP’s first use of electronic mail within a Province, and created a selfinstructional training manual which was deployed and utilized Province-wide. I produced and implemented strategic and tactical plans in human resource and materiel management that were presented and adopted nationally. This was to keep our telecommunications technicians busy by training them to provide computer hardware/software support. I was a member of the Regional Executive Committee responsible for total RCMP service delivery within the Province, and as a member of that Committee ensured the service levels and service delivery of the RCMP were in keeping with the policing agreements in effect between the Force and the Province. I composed and distributed a monthly Informatics newsletter within the Division, which was also shared nationally. I was busy, and invariably brought work home with me every night. As a junior officer, I was assigned many less-than-prestigious duties, such as having to go to the liquor store and stock up the Officers’ Mess bar (no cheap stuff, either…only the best), be the Mess Secretary, manage the Division’s United Way campaign…which wasn’t too successful June 2017 169
RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT THROUGH THE YEARS and generated a complaint from the federal coordinator that I wasn’t doing enough to get donations! With such a large staff of both Regular Members and civilians, there were more than a few interpersonal squabbles that I had to deal with. Not only that, but I had senior Regular Members who objected to my management decisions. Those members were quickly put in their place, not kindly I might add, and with the full support of the C.O., who noted my ‘firm and capable’ management style. Got myself yet another little feathered friend for Father’s Day. He was to be the last. For three weeks (Sep-Oct) I had to attend the Inspectors Orientation and Development Course (Baby Officers Course as the rank and file called it) in Depot Division, Regina. Instead of barrack accommodation, we were all allotted private rooms in the Officers’ Mess. Don’t remember what we had to learn, but the highlight of the course was ‘taking’ the noon parade, where you would be the Officer on the parade square taking the salute from the recruit troops. After the 3 weeks, had a sore arm from all the saluting we had to do. Recruits avoided us at all costs. In the photo below, I’m standing beside (on my right) a newly-commissioned RCMP jet pilot…who was a great resource for being able to use the plane. June 2017 170
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