“View your previous posts frankly in a safe environment, and use aliases or your real name to share your experience for the next generation,” the app’s page says.

“Let’s face it, at least so that when the staff tells you that Fort McMurray might be more suitable, you know what you missed. Our goal is to help members decide where to go, or if you volunteer, What did you get yourself into.”

Damon Atwood, the co-founder of the app, stated that members can leave a numerical score between 1 and 5 on the physical condition, amenities, and morale of the unit, as well as its assessment of the RCMP and the RCMP. The degree of care of the family. They can also leave more complete text comments and share photos.

Atwood stated that the creator of the app initially received approval from the force at the end of 2019 to launch Buffalo Tracks (the name is a tribute to the iconic RCMP logo). Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police need to obtain permission from the chain of command before engaging in secondary tasks. This is a policy designed to prevent conflicts of interest.

Atwood said the approval was cancelled in March this year.

“The result is that the continued operation of the application may lead to disciplinary action, so the application was forced to suspend operations,” he said.

Too frank?

He said that when the app was shut down, he and the team behind Buffalo Tracks were told that someone had copied information from the site without permission or consent.

“In the internal process related to the revocation of secondary employment permits, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police inadvertently disclosed this to us,” Atwood said.

The Buffalo Tracks team then sent a notice to users-seen by CBC News-warning them that they believed that an employee was instructed by the Office of Staff Management and Relations of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police without the consent of the app founder Reproduced the comments of the detachment below.

Atwood said they worry that users will be reprimanded by their superiors for being frank.

“In addition to general privacy interests, the main concern is to prevent any of our customers from being negatively affected by supervisors and/or managers for expressing their views on a particular location (if the reviews are negative, in most cases, members are very Happy to talk about the great positions they have held),” he wrote in an email.

“We have requested the return of our data and information related to the scope and use of the data breach. We are waiting for the commissioner’s notification on who will conduct the investigation.”

A RCMP spokesperson said that since the service does not support the application, it cannot comment on this.

“Furthermore, all RCMP employees who are employed continue to abide by the RCMP Code of Conduct, whether on or off work-this also applies to their personal behavior online,” Catherine Fortin in an email to CBC News Say.

In recent years, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has faced scrutiny on employee morale and workplace culture-some call it A toxic culture that tolerates harassment and racism.