RCMP officers participate in the Musical Ride.Toronto Police Service officers pose with the Canadian flag and revellers during celebrations for Canada's ice hockey win during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Law enforcement in Canada is the responsibility of police services, special constabularies, and civil law enforcement agencies, which are operated by every level of government, some private and Crown corporations, and First Nations. In contrast to the United States or Mexico, and with the exception of the Unité permanente anticorruption (English: Permanent Anti-corruption Unit) in Quebec and the Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia,[1][2] there are no organizations dedicated exclusively to the investigation of criminal activity in Canada. Criminal investigations are instead conducted by police services, which maintain specialized criminal investigation units in addition to their mandate for emergency response and general community safety.
Canada's provinces are responsible for the development and maintenance of police forces and special constabularies, and every province except Newfoundland and Labrador delegates this responsibility to municipalities, which can establish their own police forces or contract with a neighbouring community or the province for police services.[3] Civil law enforcement, however, is the responsibility of the level or agency of government that developed those laws — the by-laws of a transit authority, for example, are enforced by that transit authority, while federal environmental regulations are enforced by the federal government.[4] The federal government maintains its own police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, popularly known in English-speaking areas as the "Mounties"), which provides federal criminal law enforcement and contract police services to provinces and municipalities that do not maintain their own police forces.[5]
Since the 1990s, a framework has existed for First Nations to establish their own police services, funded entirely by the federal and provincial governments and regulated by provinces.[6] These police services generally receive less funding compared to other Canadian police forces — for example, in 2016, the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service in Ontario received only 36% of the funding that the Ontario Provincial Police estimated it would cost to police the same area.[7]
^"Quebec opposition parties slam anti-corruption unit after allegations media leaks came from top brass". CBC News. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
^"Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia". Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – BC. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
^"Police in Canada". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
^"Appointment of Officers and designation as provincial offences officers". Toronto Region Conservation Authority. 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
^"About Us". RCMP. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
^"First Nations and Inuit Policing Program". Public Safety Canada. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
^"The deadly cost of underfunding First Nations police". TVO. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
and 27 Related for: Law enforcement in Canada information
This is a list of lawenforcement agencies inCanada. Canada Border Services Agency Canada Post Security & Investigation Services Canada Revenue Agency Criminal...
with lawenforcement officer or police officer, but in others peace officer is a totally separate legal designation with quasi-police powers. InCanada, the...
A lawenforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for lawenforcement within a specific jurisdiction through the employment and deployment...
Lawenforcement is the activity of some members of government who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, investigating, deterring...
A lawenforcement agency (LEA) is any agency which enforces the law. This may be a special or local police/sheriffs, state troopers, and feds such as...
government and enforcing different subsets of the applicable law. The Afghan National Police is responsible for civilian lawenforcement. Once under the...
people whose deaths were caused by, or in relation to an interaction with non-military lawenforcement officers inCanada. The list includes deaths caused by...
sworn lawenforcement officers have been serving in the United States. About 137,000 of those officers work for federal lawenforcement agencies. Law enforcement...
animal-related enforcement. InCanada, municipal lawenforcement officers are generally referred to as bylaw enforcement officers. Every municipality inCanada is...
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA; French: Agence des services frontaliers du Canada, ASFC) is a federal lawenforcement agency that is responsible...
services, funded through taxes. Lawenforcement is only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but...
in the United States and Canada consist of a wide range of police vehicles used by police and lawenforcement officials in the United States and in Canada...
force by lawenforcementinCanada. 1999: An RCMP constable in Alberta, Michael Ferguson, fatally shot Darren Varley after Varley attacked him in a jail...
database where Canada's lawenforcement agencies can access information on a number of matters. It is Canada's only national lawenforcement networking computer...
how exactly to divide up limited lawenforcement resources. Canada portal Government of Alberta LawenforcementinCanada "Government increases funding to...
more interrogators than any other company in the world", and Reid's technique had been adopted by lawenforcement agencies of many different types[vague]...
Directorate of Enforcement or Enforcement Directorate (ED) is a domestic lawenforcement agency and economic intelligence agency responsible for enforcing economic...
classified as terrorism by the Canadian legal system. (For example, the 2018 Toronto shooting was a mass shooting that lawenforcement officials did not connect...
assists in managing and linking worldwide cases related to child protection. CETS was developed in collaboration with lawenforcementinCanada. Administered...
minutes. After approximately 90 minutes of fruitless searching, local lawenforcement was called. Sixteen days later, Adam's severed head was found; his...
to the Government of Canada. To provide technical and operational assistance to federal lawenforcement and security agencies in the performance of their...
DURING GUN LAW PROTEST". Archived from the original on 2013-06-13. Retrieved 2013-06-13. Citizen, David Pugliese (11 January 2017). "Canadian Forces looking...
Global Information
