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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Police
		secret police policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures.
		police court court with jurisdiction limited to minor offenses, chiefly the least grave misdemeanors and breaches of municipal ordinances.
		Police shootings, traffic stop under scrutiny: The state is investigating Fort Lauderdale police shootings and is looking into a commissioner's traffic stop.
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	Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Image:Rcmp sled dogs 1957.jpg On February 1, 1920 the RNWMP was merged with the Dominion Police and was renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, with responsibility for federal law enforcement in all provinces and territories.
		Image:Guidon Royal Canadian Mounted Police.JPG Although it is a police force, the RCMP has the status of a regiment of dragoons, and as such is entitled to wear battle honours for its war service as well as carry a guidon.
		In the early years of policing in northern Canada, and well into the 1950s, local aboriginal people were hired by the RCMP as special constables and were employed as guides and to source and care for sled dog teams.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/RCMP (3386 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Canada mourns 4 Mounties
		The Northwest Rebellion was an unsuccessful attempt by indigenous rebels to establish an independent nation in the northwestern frontier.
		Legend has it that the small Northwest Mounted Police, formed in 1873 to bring order to the Canadian west, wore their scarlet tunics so natives could readily distinguish them from the blue-coated U.S. cavalry.
		Police identified the four Mounties as Peter Christopher Schiemann, Anthony Fitzgerald Orion Gordon, Lionide Nicholas Johnston and Brock Warren Myrol.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600116448,00.html (700 words)

	THE ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE
		At the time the Order of Council http://www.gc.ca/howgoc/oic/sgc_e.html was passed, this law enforcement organization was called the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP.) The organization of the Force began on September 5, 1873 with the appointment of officers and a recruiting campaign, which concluded in 1874.
		In 1895, Mounted Police jurisdiction was extended to the Yukon and was expanded to the Arctic Coast in 1903.
		In 1905, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police contracted to police the new provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/5086/35588 (516 words)

	LVMPD - Mounted Police
		The unit is available to help area commands with special projects in which a large, visible police presence is needed or when officers and mounts can help "flush" certain elements out of a neighborhood.
		The remainder of the time the unit is used for any major events that may require crowd control such as strike rallies, protests, sporting events, large concerts, etc. The size of the horses, not to mention the accompanying intimidation factor, have helped make the unit at these type of events.
		The Mounted Patrol Unit's barn is located located at 5857 E. Flamingo Rd. across from Horseman's Park, on Clark County Sanitation District property.
	www.lvmpd.com /bureaus/mounted_police.html (341 words)

	Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Charles S. Harper Dies, 1922 - ExploreNorth
		The obituary that follows was published in the Dawson Daily News on the afternoon of his death, and provides a glimpse at the degree of respect that the community had for Mounted Police Sergeant Charles Sydney Harper, whose service to his adopted country cut his life very short, at the age of 41.
		Telford, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for Yukon, received a wire from Whitehorse advising him that Sergeant Charles S. Harper died at 10:15 this morning in the Whitehorse hospital, where he was resting, on his way outside for medical treatment.
		He joined the Northwest Mounted Police in 1900, and served in the Medicine Hat division.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/bios/bl-harper-cs.htm (534 words)

	The History of Tagish, Yukon Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The North-West Mounted Police built one of their most important posts here early in 1897, which they called Fort Sifton, after the then minister of the interior.
		It also became the southern police headquarters during the gold rush and it was extremely busy.
		After the gold rush, police and government officials packed up their belongings and left the area to its original inhabitants.
	www.yukonalaska.com /communities/tagishhist.html (448 words)

	Royal Canadian Mounted Police — Infoplease.com
		The force later absorbed the provincial police forces of all the territories and provinces except Ontario and Quebec and enforces all federal and provincial laws except in those provinces.
		A continuous view of accounts: Royal Canadian Mounted Police auditors ride to the rescue of a complex accounts payable function.
		Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized a rare Victoria Cross--Canada's highest award for valor--from a London auction house that was......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0842575.html (342 words)

	THE RCMP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Parliament passed an act to begin recruiting for the new force, and by the spring of 1874 the northwest Mounted Police had 300 recruits.
		When Saskatchewan and Alberta became provinces in 1905; they asked the northwest Mounted Police to be the police for the province.
		The Mounties were joined with the Dominion Police, who had enforced national laws since 1868 in central and eastern Canada, and on February 1, 1920, were renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
	www.alcdsb.on.ca /~mart/junior/thercmp.htm (484 words)

	Mounted Police Unit Mission
		The police equiped horse and their stoward uniformed rider present a formitable icon for all people universally.
		Images of the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride, a mounted color guard, or a burial cassion are moving sights with powerful implications.
		The common model here is reserve police, posses, and parade units where the horse is equiped, trained, maintained and ridden by a volunteer.
	nteusa.org /mountedpolice/S1Unitmission.html (1076 words)

	History - The Origins of the RCMP
		On May 23, 1873, the Dominion Parliament passed an act to provide for the establishment of a "Mounted Police Force for the Northwest Territories".
		The Force was recruiting men between the ages of 18 and 40, of sound constitution, able to ride, active, able-bodied and of good character.
		The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), as it was soon called, actually came into existence on August 30, 1873, when the provisions of the Act were brought into force by Order-in-Council and recruiting began.
	www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca /history/origins2_e.htm (339 words)

	Browse by Subject: Northwest Mounted Police - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A convoy of Northwest police on the march.
		Trooper and Redskin in the far North-west : recollections of life in the North-west mounted police, Canada, 1884-1888 / by John G. Donkin..
		Policing the plains : being the real-life record of the famous Royal North-West Mounted Police /: by R.G. MacBeth
	library.usask.ca:9003 /northwest/index/subject/5.html (210 words)

	Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Canadian Mounted Police or Mounties (RCMP), also French: Gendarmerie royale du Canada, (GRC), is both the federal police force and the national police of Canada.
		The exceptions are Ontario, Quebec, and parts of Newfoundland and Labrador, which have retained their own provincial police forces, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Sûreté du Québec, and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, respectivly.
		The RCMP is the largest police force in Canada; as of April 2005, the RCMP had an on-strength establishment of 23,466 personnel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police (3994 words)

	Ernest Gibson \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Ernest Henry James Gibson, honored in recent years as the last surviving member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, died Jan. 20 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Comox, British Columbia, of pneumonia and complications from a broken pelvis, his family said.
		Gibson joined the force at age 18 in 1919, a year before it merged with the Dominion Police to form the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
		Gibson's brief police career led to fame late in life as the force celebrated one of its last living veterans.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040220/news_1m20gibson.html (179 words)

	North Woods Dramas: The Forgotten Genre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From the teens through the twenties, many movies were set in the north woods, the Northwest, and beyond the trees to the Arctic--snow pictures.
		There are 114 "Northwest dramas." The subject index of the same volume lists Forests, Forest fires, Forest rangers.
		This Web exhibition of posters is made possible by Richard C. Allen, a friend of Northeast Historic Film, who says, "as a youngster I was hooked on the Northwest Mounted Police." The majority of the images are from his collection of movie poster transparencies.
	www.oldfilm.org /nhfWeb/exhibits/WingsPosterExhibit.htm (295 words)

	1880 Census linkables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was blamed for creating bad relations with the Blackfoot Indians 1881â“82 and was involved in a skirmish in the 1885 Northwest Rebellion.
		A MÃ©tis leader, Nolin was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1874 and became minister of agriculture in 1875.
		Appointed an inspector in the Northwest Mounted Police in 1873, Walsh served in the force until 1883.
	www.lds.org /newsroom/showpackage/0,15367,3899-1---55-623,00.html (272 words)

	Frederick Remington's North West Mounted Police [ R.C.M.P. ]
		West Mounted Police [ R.C.M.P. Frederic Remington (born 1861 - died 1909) was a famous American artist who portrayed the North American West and other subjects based partly on his travels to Europe.
		Although he is very well known in the United States and indeed for anyone who studies American Western art it may not be known that Remington visited Canada on numerous occasions.
		Anniversary celebrations of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.)(1873 - 1998) of whom the earlier name North West Mounted Police (NWMP) was in vogue during Remington's lifetime we are pleased to present below a checklist,our first,of all of Remington's known (as of 1996) NWMP illustrations.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/hmhsllandoverycastle/checklist1.html (684 words)

	Talk:Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Northwest Mounted Police redirects here, but there is no explanation in the article.
		Well, it refers to the Northwest Mounted Police and then later in the same section refers to the NWMP, which I would have thought was quite obviously an abbreviation.
		Those are from the Vancouver Police Department's mounted squad, not the RCMP.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police (2981 words)

	North West Mounted Police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Northwest Mounted Police were established in 1873 and sent out to be a Canadian presence in the West.
		Because the man leading the trek would not acknowledge that red river carts travel slower than men with horses, the police tended to have to go to bed hungry, waiting for their cooks with the wagons to catch up with them.
		In November 1889, the two constables were removed back to Fort Saskatchewan and Victoria was again without police officers.
	www.smokylake.com /history/nwmp/default.htm (269 words)

	Canadians stunned by slaying of 4 Mounties - World News - MSNBC.com
		John Ulan / AP Police leave the property where four Alberta RCMP officers were shot dead during an investigation into a marijuana farm near the village of Rochfort Bridge, in northwestern Alberta, Canada, on Thursday.
		TORONTO - A bagpiper played “Amazing Grace” and flags flew at half-staff Friday as Canadians grappled with the deadliest attack on police officers in 120 years, after four Mounties were slain during a raid on a marijuana farm in a rural western hamlet.
		Rick Oncescu said two SWAT teams were called into the area and Mounties from surrounding jurisdictions also responded when the four officers did not respond to radio calls Thursday afternoon.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7083141 (873 words)

	Factmonster Search: police
		police power, in law, right of a government to make laws necessary for the health, morals, and...
		police court, court with jurisdiction limited to minor offenses, chiefly the least grave...
		Royal Canadian Mounted Police, constabulary organized (1873) as the Northwest Mounted Police to...
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	macleod
		The new post was completed in 1884 and gave an uninterrupted view on all sides.
		The post was utilized by a number of different divisions of the North West Mounted Police.
		Two members were stationed there to police the community of Macleod until 1933, when they moved into new offices at the Customs Building on Macleod's main street.
	www.nwmpmuseum.com /macleod.html (422 words)

	Jerry Potts - Mountie Scout - Last Best West
		Potts career as a scout with the Northwest Mounted Police started when the Mounties showed up in Fort Benton, Montana, in the summer of 1874.
		The Mounties were formed to police the Canadian West, shut down Fort Whoop-Up, and put an end to the Whiskey Trade.
		Only problem was they got lost coming out west from Ontario, and until they stumbled into Fort Benton and engaged Jerry Potts' services, there wasn't a man amongst them that knew where they were going.
	www.thelastbestwest.com /jerry_potts.htm (137 words)

	Equine Protection Network - Mounted Police Units
		We hope those working to change/create laws to protect Police Animals in Canada are successful.
		Anne is dedicated to keeping his memory alive...Please help us keep his memory alive and ensure that all Police Animals are protected by law.
		(a) Illegal to taunt police animals.--It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously taunt, torment, tease, beat, kick or strike a police animal.
	www.equineprotectionnetwork.com /rescue/mounted.htm (624 words)

	Curwood, James Oliver: The Golden Snare
		It was the age-old sasaki-wechikun, or sacrifice-hold, an inheritance that came down from father to son - the Arctic jiu-jitsu...
		Philip lay still for a single instant." Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, finds the golden snare and embarks on a dangerous adventure to discover its origin, with surprising results.The book includes the original photos from a silent movie of the story starring Wallace Beery and Ruth Renick.
		Having spent years in the Canadian wildernessduring the early 1900's, James Oliver Curwoodauthentically embodies the wild ruggedness ofthe land and the people in his timeless storiesand characters.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=II7BH (270 words)

	The Northwest Mounted Police, 1900 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The railway station presented a very animated appearance last evening when the men for the Mounted Police departed for the West.
		Among the recruits were two Prince of Wales College students and the college yell was heard now and then.
		It was their intention to have joined the Northwest Mounted Police here, but finding themselves too late, left for the West via Boston for the purpose of enlisting.
	www.islandregister.com /1900nwmp.html (204 words)

	NorthWest Mounted Police Trail
		The plaques will draw attention to the Fort Walsh-Wood Mountain Trail, which was used extensively by the North West Mounted Police in the late 1800s.
		The North West Mounted Police enforced Canadian law and Indian policy, ensuring Dominion sovereignty over the area then known as the Northwest Territories.
		A fitting manner to celebrate the province’s centennial, the Society is placing descriptive plaques at Wood Mountain and Fort Walsh to ensure this important historic trail would be preserved for the benefit of future generations.
	www.shfs.ca /nwmptrail.php (977 words)

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