Royal Canadian Mounted Police to Centrally Manage Employee Training

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), a venerable law enforcement agency founded 131 years ago to safeguard the Northwest Territories, selected the WebCT Vista academic enterprise system to centrally manage a wide array of courses, Web pages and learning objects for its 23,000-employee force.

Unlike many law enforcement agencies, RCMP has a staggering range of federal, provincial and municipal policing responsibilities across the country, from homeland security to front-line local policing. It has all of the responsibilities in Canada that the Drug Enforcement Administration, ATF, FBI, Secret Service and others have in the U.S. As such, it has a monumental training burden.

To that end, RCMP currently operates a diverse range of interactive public Web pages, intranet pages, remotely managed courses, and online exams on multiple platforms. With WebCT Vista, the agency will for the first time centrally manage all learning activities on a single platform, enabling it to save time and money while dramatically improving education.

"Continuous learning is a life-or-death matter for us and for our citizens, so it's paramount to make training as effective as possible," said Simon Par