Indian constable

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an Indian employed by the R.C.M.P., earlier the N.W.M.P., as a constable with limited authority on a reserve or in other regions occupied by Indians.

Quotations

1886

When the Indian constable went to put him out, he produced a revolver.

1935

The Indian constables had been two weeks in close confinement, but were still convinced that they were in the right over the whole affair.