Smith, Barbara (2009). The Mad Trapper – Unearthing a Mystery. Heritage House Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-894974-53-0. a b c "RCMP and the Monarchy". RCMP Veterans' Association Vancouver Division. June 9, 2012 . Retrieved April 16, 2021. On 19 September 2022 the RCMP led the procession through London, England, following the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II due to the long-standing special relationship with the Queen. [95] [96] In November, legislation was passed allowing the RNWMP to absorb the Dominion Police (a federal force established in 1868 to guard government buildings and to enforce federal statutes). When the legislation took effect on 1 February, 1920, the merged organization was named the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and headquarters were moved from Regina to Ottawa. Inquiry Into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Royal Commission of". Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on April 25, 2008.

Furness, Hannah (May 23, 2012). "Queen guarded by Canadian Mounties today". Archived from the original on January 11, 2022 – via www.telegraph.co.uk. RCMP community relationship building programs include the Musical Ride. The Musical Ride is an equestrian showcase of RCMP riders, that performs across Canada each year from May to October. [209] The RCMP Sunset Ceremony ( French: Cérémonie du crépuscule) has taken place every summer since 1989 at the Musical Ride Centre in Ottawa, [210] [211] with it in recent years featuring the Ottawa Police Service Pipe Band and the Governor General's Foot Guards Band. [212] [213] The RCMP National Ceremonial Troop is a unit that serves as dismounted version of the Musical Ride as well as a drill team. Individual divisions also have their own ceremonial troops. Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) No. 1 Mk III – issued in .303 British. World War I surplus rifles used from 1919–1947. [176] Tranter revolver – chambered in .450 Adams, the standard service round. It was similar to the Beaumont-Adams revolver it was substituted for. Cecco, Leyland (June 12, 2020). "First Nations chief shown being punched by Canadian police in video". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved June 12, 2020.Community-level knowledge sought in new RCMP program". Archived from the original on September 7, 2014 . Retrieved September 6, 2014. Leffler, Brennan; Lord, Ross (December 12, 2020). "Emotional aftermath: families of victims in Nova Scotia shooting struggle to heal". Global News . Retrieved December 14, 2020. Colt Canada C8 IUR ( integrated upper receiver ) 5.56mm NATO. The semi-automatic C8 IUR was adopted for general use in October, 2011, [172] but the first batch were not procured until 2013. [173] The first RCMP Cadets began qualifying on the C8 IUR and receiving Active Shooter training in 2015. [174] A royal crown is used in the regimental cap badge and the insignia of senior commissioned officers. In 1955 St. Edward's Crown replaced the Tudor Crown. Although Queen Elizabeth II had adopted the redesign of the heraldic crown in 1953, it took some time to design, approve, and manufacture the new insignia.

Because of procurement problems with the Beaumont–Adams revolvers, constables sometimes carried their own sidearms chambered in a standard service calibre.The RCMP mounted the Queen's Life Guard in May 2012 during celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, [67] As of April1,2019 [update], the RCMP employed 30,196 men and women, including police officers, civilian members, and public service employees. [10] In the early 1990s, journalists at the Canadian Broadcasting Company's The Fifth Estate opened an investigation into rumours that a senior RCMP officer in the Criminal Intelligence Service (CISC) was on the payroll of a Montreal-based organized crime group, and in 1992, aired an episode identifying Inspector Claude Savoie, then the assistant director of the CISC, as the leak, citing evidence that connected him to Allan Ronald Ross, an Irish-Canadian drug lord, and Sidney Leithman, a prominent lawyer associated with Montreal's organized crime network. [53] Shortly after the episode aired, and minutes before being interviewed by detectives with the RCMP's professional standards unit, Savoie committed suicide in his Ottawa office. [54] One of Savoie's subordinates, Portuguese-Canadian constable Jorge Leite, was found guilty of corruption and breach of trust by a Portuguese court in relation to his work with Savoie. [55] [56]

The Arar affair was only the beginning of a steady diet of bad news surrounding the RCMP that tarnished the force's once-proud image through much of the 2000s. This included accusations of failure in the investigation of the 1985 Air India bombing; revelations that the RCMP's pension fund was plagued by financial abuse; evidence of manpower shortages and poor training for young officers sent to remote communities – following the shooting deaths of two Mounties on northern assignments; and evidence of an internal culture of persecuting whistle-blowers who attempted to bring such problems to light.While a federal agency, the RCMP also serves as the local law enforcement agency for various provincial, municipal, and First Nations jurisdictions. [13] pattern light cavalry sabre – Replaced the 1821 pattern sabre as the NWMP officer's ceremonial sword. Early rifles and pistols used by the North-West Mounted Police on display at the RCMP Heritage Centre. Pistols After special training by members of the Household Cavalry riding staff, the Mounties performed the centuries’ old tradition, for real, for one day only.