RCMP Wants Large Capacity Magazine Rifles

I have just read that our RCMP want to trade in their shotguns for rifles with large capacity magazines because they find, under the present circumstances, they need them. Now I don't doubt that our main front line of defense provided by our Government needs more firepower to combat crime. It's strange though when we have been told that crime is on the decline. What concerns me is the "automatic" response we hear from their "spokespeople" that they don't want people to "take things into their own hands" even when they are not available to protect us.