• PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Apparently we have:

    Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) - Federal Police Force

    Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) - Provincial Police Force for Ontario

    Sûreté du Québec (SQ) - Provincial Police Force for Quebec

    British Columbia RCMP - RCMP division serving British Columbia

    Alberta RCMP - RCMP division serving Alberta

    Manitoba RCMP - RCMP division serving Manitoba

    Saskatchewan RCMP - RCMP division serving Saskatchewan

    New Brunswick RCMP - RCMP division serving New Brunswick

    Nova Scotia RCMP - RCMP division serving Nova Scotia

    Prince Edward Island RCMP - RCMP division serving Prince Edward Island

    Newfoundland and Labrador RCMP - RCMP division serving Newfoundland and Labrador

    Northwest Territories RCMP - RCMP division serving the Northwest Territories

    Yukon RCMP - RCMP division serving Yukon

    Nunavut RCMP - RCMP division serving Nunavut

    Vancouver Police Department (VPD) - Municipal Police Force in Vancouver, British Columbia

    Toronto Police Service (TPS) - Municipal Police Force in Toronto, Ontario

    Montreal Police Service (SPVM) - Municipal Police Force in Montreal, Quebec

    Calgary Police Service (CPS) - Municipal Police Force in Calgary, Alberta

    Edmonton Police Service (EPS) - Municipal Police Force in Edmonton, Alberta

    Ottawa Police Service (OPS) - Municipal Police Force in Ottawa, Ontario

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      New Brunswick RCMP - RCMP division serving New Brunswick

      Nova Scotia RCMP - RCMP division serving Nova Scotia

      Isn’t that like claiming New Brunswick Tim Hortons and Nova Scotia Tim Hortons are different groups?

      Like, provincial allotment of the same force seems to be … the same force. Same training, same low pay, etc. A double-double in Moncton should closely resemble a double-double from Truro.

      And, you’ll find, one of them has WAY different training. PER CAPITA, I’ll bet one group has the least actual proved charges of unprofessionalism, but with the size of the group they’ll appear in the news by name so much more. If one group is ten times the size of the others, and has 1/5th the problems, that’s still gonna see double the reports in the news; and perception will be affected.

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      1 year ago

      The Toronto police had that scandal with the bar in their HQ so I think that eliminates them as a contender

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        1 year ago

        There was a user on the other site that would keep a list of all the terrible things the Toronto Police would do. It’s a long list. We have a Police Board that does nothing and an Association that acts like the biggest mafia-based union for a group that isn’t supposed to have a union. The biggest thing Toronto pays for is Police on it’s budget, yet we get terrible response times, blatantly racist cops upholding blatantly racist policies, cops that won’t talk to the SIU, and outright criminals on the force being on paid leave for half-a-decade or more waiting for a reason to fire the person when they should be behind bars. Then there was the G20… Illegal detentions, some in the middle of the street in the cold and rain, and cowardly officers hiding their names/badge numbers throughout.

        The current TPS is the second police service that Toronto has had, after the first one was dismantled after the cops got into a riot with clowns from a visiting circus over a confrontation that started at a whore house, and I feel as strange as that reason was to rebuild, we should probably look at re-building replacing the TPS today.