RCMP Watch

Brookfield, N.S. (Canadian Press) - A quick-thinking RCMP officer from Nova Scotia is being praised for risking his own life and preventing a possible train derailment.
Const. Frank Deschenes was among a number of officers responding to single-vehicle accident just south of Brookfield early today.
The accident left the vehicle stuck on some railway tracks, and a [...]

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(The Northern Light) - For the second time in about six months, a local Mountie is being hailed as a hero.
Corporal Daniel Melanson of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, jumped into action when he responded to a 911 call of a boater in trouble. Around 2:10 p.m. on May 3, the officer was nearing the [...]

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A New Brunswick Mountie who waded into the frigid water of the Bay of Chaleur to save a canoeist from drowning Saturday says his height was definitely an asset in the rescue.
“I was taller than the other people at the scene, I’m six-foot-four, so I could wade out and then it was just a short [...]

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Ottawa (Reuters) - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and elections officials raided the Ottawa headquarters of the ruling Conservative Party on Tuesday, but officials declined to comment on the subject of the investigation.
A crowd of reporters watched as two police officers arrived with a trolley-load of cases and entered one of the party’s offices. Other [...]

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Government of Canada Press Release, Regina, Saskatchewan - On behalf of the Honourable Jason Kenney, Secretary of State (Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity), Andrew Scheer, Member of Parliament (Regina-Qu’Appelle), will take part in the RCMP Heritage Centre’s new speakers’ series. He will pay tribute to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as an important symbol of Canadian [...]

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Glenn Kauth, Edmonton, Alberta (Sun Media) - Cpl. Stephen Vigor wishes he was not awarded a bravery medal from the Governor General for his actions during the Mayerthorpe tragedy in 2005.
“I would rather have four officers here and not have received the award,” the Edmonton officer said yesterday, after returning from last week’s Medal of [...]

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Ottawa (RCMP Press Release) - Today, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will be honouring eight police officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for acts of bravery. These eight RCMP officers along with several other members of Canadian police forces, emergency personnel and civilians are being invested [...]

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Hobbema, Alberta (Canadian Press) - Three police officers risked their lives on Christmas morning to save a central Alberta woman from a burning house.
At first the intense flames and thick smoke drove officers away from the home in Hobbema, south of Edmonton.
But two Mounties and an officer from the Louis Bull police force wouldn’t give [...]

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Andy Ivens (Vancouver Province) - An angel appeared to Bobbie Henderson on Christmas Eve in the form of Langley RCMP Const. Christa Ballard.Henderson, a single mom raising two children, awoke on the morning of Dec. 24 to an uncomfortable breeze from an open window in her Brookswood home.
She got up to investigate and to her [...]

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RCMP Press Release - The RCMP benefits from the assistance of more than 75, 000 dedicated volunteers who work with the RCMP throughout the country. The RCMP has released a poster for International Volunteer Day - December 5th - to all its detachments, community policing offices, and Victim Services offices, saluting all RCMP Volunteers.
“The RCMP [...]

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