SOC209H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Municipal Police, Police Misconduct, Nonunion
Document Summary
As a national police force, the rcmp has several distinctive organizational characteristics. Accountability: municipal police departments are subject to local police boards and elected municipal councils; in contrast, rcmp detachments are not legally accountable to the municipalities they police under contract. Nationwide recruiting and centralized training: officers are recruited from across the country and trained in regina, saskatchewan, at a central facility known as the training academy, informally referred to as depot. Policing diverse task environments: rcmp members carry out their duties in variety of environments across the country, from small coastal villages in newfoundland and british. Columbia, to aboriginal communities in the north, to large suburban communities. Transfer policy: quite unlike their municipal police counterparts, rcmp officers have traditionally been rotated among detachments every two years or so. Nonunion: unlike their provincial and municipal counterparts across the country, rcmp officers are prohibited by legislation from forming a union.
