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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.
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.
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. [ 2 ] Queen Elizabeth II was commissioner-in-chief from 2012 to 2022, and King Charles III was honorary commissioner of the RCMP from 2012 until 2023. [ 3 ]
Killed by 34-year-old bank robber Georges Marcotte using a semi-automatic rifle. Originally given the death penalty, capital punishment was abolished in Canada in 1976 and so he was given a life sentence instead and was later paroled in 1981. [46] Constable Denis Brabant St-Laurent Police Montreal, Quebec December 14, 1962
The RCMP Long Service Medal was unique in the history of the Canadian honours system. For the first time an honour was created to reward the service of Canadians serving within Canada. Previous awards for service in Canada, like the Canada General Service Medal were presented to both Canadian and British personnel.
Mounted Police Association of Ontario v Canada; Mr. Big (2007 film) ... Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP; S. St. Roch (ship) Spiritwood ...
39-year-old Jagdish Patel; his wife, Vaishaliben, who was in her mid-30s; their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi; and 3-year-old son, Dharmik, froze to death while trying to cross from Canada into ...
He joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on August 15, 1932. He served across Canada in national security and criminal investigation. He was appointed Commissioner of the RCMP on November 1, 1963. He chaired two federal-provincial conferences resulting in the expansion of National Poli