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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; French: Gendarmerie royale du Canada, GRC) is the national police service of Canada. The RCMP is an agency of the Government of Canada ; it also provides police services under contract to 11 provinces and territories , over 150 municipalities, and 600 Indigenous communities.
Under the Firearms Act, the RCMP commissioner also serves as the commissioner of firearms, the chief executive of the Canadian Firearms Program. [ 1 ] Michael Duheme is the 25th commissioner of the RCMP, having taken office in an interim capacity on March 17, 2023, and permanently as of the Change Command ceremony held on May 25, 2023.
Michael Robert Duheme COM is the 25th Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police, having taken office in an interim capacity, following the retirement of Commissioner Brenda Lucki on March 17, 2023, and permanently as of the Change of Command ceremony held on May 25, 2023.
Brenda Lucki COM is a Canadian retired police officer who served as the 24th commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from April 2018 to March 2023. [1] [2] She is the first woman to permanently hold the position. [3] By virtue of her role, Lucki was the ex-officio Principal Commander of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces.
RCMP officers during the Estevan Riot. Until 1920, the RCMP's forerunner, the Royal North-West Mounted Police, operated only in Western Canada and the North.The new organization was created by an amalgamation with the Dominion Police, giving the RCMP a national security mandate as a departure from its earlier role as a frontier police force.
William Leonard Higgitt (10 November 1917 – 2 April 1989) was the 14th commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), holding office from 1969 to 1973, and President of the International Criminal Police Organization from 1972 to 1976. [1]
The Emergency Response Team (ERT; French: Groupe tactique d'intervention) [2] are police tactical units of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police based throughout Canada and are mainly part-time teams. According to the RCMP, the ERT "is a group of highly-trained RCMP members capable of employing specialized weapons, equipment, and tactics to resolve ...
An RCMP Protective Service Officer. The Protective Policing Service [1] (French: Services de police de protection [2]), operated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, provides security details for domestic and foreign VIPs when abroad.