SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Peelian Principles, Community Policing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Overview: origins of modern policing, structure of contemporary canadian policing, professional model of policing vs. community policing, plural policing, policing cyberspace. Police are public : maintain public approval and respect, public coordination inversely related to use of force, adherence to police/executive functions, police efficiency = absence of crime and disorder. Early canadian policing: north-west mounted police (nwmp) founded in 1873, key objectives, maintain order, ensure orderly settlement of praries, replaced by the royal canadian mounted police (rcmp) in 1920s. Structure of contemporary canadian policing: four levels of policing, federal, provincial, municipal, first nations, other policing services serve specialized functions, the organization of canadian police forces can be complex. Level 1: federal police: rcmp (mounties, governed by royal canadian mounted police act, 1985, responsible for a range of policing activities, contract policing at the provincial/territorial and municipal levels, concerns about local oversight and accountability.