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2 days ago · 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 delivers police services under contract to 11 provinces and territories, over 150 municipalities, and 600 Indigenous communities.
3 days ago · The North-West Mounted Police set up control posts at the borders of the Yukon Territory or, where that was disputed, at easily controlled points such as the Chilkoot and White Passes. These units were armed with Maxim guns.
5 days ago · North West Mounted Police In 1874, the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) travelled to Rivière au Courant (Swift Current Creek) to prepare the area for the coming railway. Treaty Number Four had been signed with the Cree and Assiniboine to allow surveyors to mark the way for an expanding nation.
5 days ago · The NYPD’s Mounted Unit has patrolled the streets of New York since 1871, long before police cars became readily available to officers. It may not be as large as it was in the past, but...
2 days ago · In 1875 a North-West Mounted Police (later Royal Canadian Mounted Police) post known unofficially as Fort Brisebois was founded on the site of present-day Calgary. The following year it was officially named Fort Calgary for a town on the Scottish island of Mull .
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4 days ago · The confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers has been a place of significance to Indigenous peoples long before 1875, when the North-West Mounted Police established a site of colonial occupation called Fort Calgary and prepared the way for a new settler-colonial community.
6 days ago · Akron police are not even claiming protections of Marsy's Law in refusing to officially unveil the names of the eight Akron officers who in June 2022 fatally shot Jayland Walker, hitting him 46 ...
