Council votes for keeping the RCMP over a provincial policing system SHARE ON: The exterior of the Lloydminster RCMP detachment. (James Wood, 106.1 The Goat) Lloydminster City Council has given a thumbs up to retaining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the bi-provincial municipality. An Alberta based policing option was shot down by Council as being cost prohibitive, given the added benefits that the RCMP brings to the table and the costs incurred by other jurisdictions like Surrey in B.C. that have gone that route. Mayor Gerald Aalbers indicated that those added policing benefits means those are resources that do not come out of the City coffers.