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By Black Sheep

“Criminals Move Money. We Find it.”

That is the opening line of an Alberta RCMP recruitment post promoting civilian financial crime investigators.

Well, that caught my attention.

It is a confident slogan. But it leaves me with a straightforward question:

After you find the money, what happens next?

For someone who has lost savings, reported suspected fraud, or supplied investigators with records, that is where the real story begins.

Apparently, they’re recruiting

The recruitment post describes civilian investigators examining financial records, tracing assets and identifying evidence for criminal investigations. It names organized crime, money laundering and capital market fraud among the files they help tackle.

The post includes opportunities for civilian criminal investigators and senior civilian criminal investigators:

🔗 Senior Civilian Criminal Investigator recruitment link

🔗 Civilian Criminal Investigator recruitment link

Those are the links shown in the screenshot. I could not verify the shortened destinations, so readers should check the official RCMP civilian criminal investigator page for current application information.

The official page explains that civilian investigators work alongside police on financial crime and cybercrime investigations. Their duties can include interviewing people, preserving evidence, participating in searches and giving evidence in court. The RCMP seeks expertise in areas including finance, securities investigations and capital market misconduct.

Good. These are skills worth having.

But recruiting investigators and demonstrating results are two different things.

Finding the money is only the beginning

The slogan compresses a complicated process into seven words.

Identifying a transaction is different from establishing that it represents proceeds of crime. Tracing an asset is different from securing it. An investigation is different from a prosecution.

And a successful prosecution does not, by itself, tell a victim how much money they will receive.

For the person staring at an empty bank account, those distinctions matter.

Where is the money? Can any of it be recovered? Who is being held accountable?

A recruitment advertisement cannot answer every question. But the institution behind it should be willing to explain how it measures success.

Show Canadians the results

Here is what I would like the RCMP to publish clearly:

• Complaints: How many financial crime complaints are received?
• Investigations: How many become active investigations?
• Timelines: How long do those investigations take?
• Assets: How much is traced, restrained, seized and ultimately forfeited—reported separately?
• Recovery: How much money actually reaches victims?
• Communication: What explanations do complainants receive when a file does not proceed?

Publish the reporting period, definitions and limitations alongside the numbers. Explain which decisions belong to police and which belong to prosecutors or courts.

That would give Canadians a fair basis for judging performance.

It would also help identify whether the obstacles involve staffing, resources, investigative priorities or other parts of the justice system.

If the message is “We find it,” the obvious follow-up is: show us what happened to it.

What about the people who bring the evidence?

There is another part of this story that deserves attention: the people who first identify suspicious conduct.

Financial records do not always arrive neatly organized with the important transactions highlighted.

Someone may have spent months assembling a chronology, identifying inconsistencies and explaining who controlled what.

Witnesses, complainants and whistleblowers deserve respectful treatment, clear reporting channels and an explanation of what investigators need from them.

Where someone reports intimidation or retaliation, that concern deserves its own assessment.

The quality of an investigation includes how the people providing information are treated.

A recruitment pitch is a promise worth examining

To be clear, this screenshot does not establish a recovery rate, prove investigative failure or tell us what happened in any particular case.

What it does provide is a public statement of ambition.

The Alberta RCMP is advertising investigative work intended to expose financial crime and protect Canadians.

Fair enough.

Recruit skilled people. Give them the tools, supervision and resources to investigate properly.

Then give the public enough information to assess the outcome.

Because people who report financial crime need more than a memorable slogan.

“We find it” is a promising opening. What happened to it—and what happened for the victims—is the follow-up.

— Black Sheep

Links

RCMP: Civilian criminal investigator—duties, qualifications and how to apply

Senior investigator recruitment link shown in the Alberta RCMP post

Civilian investigator recruitment link shown in the Alberta RCMP post