The RCMP has planned events throughout the year that are meant to demonstrate pride, but also humility and efforts at reconciliation.
Posted: May 23, 2023 9:20AMRCMP officers in Red Serge line up to parade at a change-of-command ceremony for incoming B.C. RCMP Commanding Officer, Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, in Langley, B.C., on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. When Canada's founding leaders first conceived of a national police service it was merely an emergency measure, a contingency plan to enforce Canadian laws throughout what was then known as the North-West Territories.
“The RCMP will continue to support healing and reconciliation, as it continues to keep our communities safe now and into the future.” Its mandate now sees Mounties take on national and rural policing to varying degrees across Canada — a model that has garnered criticism for leaving remote communities underserved.
The day Parliament voted the service into existence on May 23, 1873, is now recognized as the official founding of what would eventually become the RCMP.
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