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The PPS uses a similar ranks system to the RCMP, with the director being a chief superintendent on secondment from the RCMP. [5] The officer-in-charge of PPS operations holds the rank of superintendent, team managers hold the rank of sergeant, supervisors hold the rank of corporal, and officers with no leadership responsibility hold the rank of constable.
Toggle Canada subsection. 20.1 Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 20.2 Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. ... Corporal Constable Cadet Sergent-major du corps: Sergent-major:
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.
Quebec City police officers preparing for the city's Saint Patrick's Day parade in 2014. Police services in Canada are responsible for the maintenance of the King's peace through emergency response to and intervention against violence; investigations into criminal offences and the enforcement of criminal law; and the enforcement of some civil law, such as traffic violations. [3]
Regardless of the breadth of their legislative authority, all civil law enforcement officers in Canada are considered peace officers for the purposes of carrying out their duties, [14] [15] [16] and may be variously appointed as special constables, [12] municipal law enforcement officers, [17] provincial offences officers, [18] or generically ...
Constable Jimmy Ng RCMP Richmond, British Columbia September 15, 2002 Killed in a hit and run Patrolman Jean-Yves Therrien Transports Québec: Laval, Quebec: October 6, 2002 Patrolman Therrien died in hospital after being struck by the same car that killed Cpl. Arseneault Corporal Antonio Arseneault Sûreté du Québec: Laval, Quebec
The Mission Police were disbanded on January 3, 1968, and the RCMP took over policing with a sergeant, corporal and 8 constables to police Mission municipality and district (the RCMP had taken over policing the rural district of Mission in August 1950 from the BC Provincial Police and by 1967 had a sergeant and four constables policing the ...
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.