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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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since 1920, a police force under the jurisdiction of the federal government of Canada, formerly the North West Mounted Police.

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Quotations

1927

"All right, Captain, " says Blakeney . . . "but we are members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and I'm also a customs and excise officer, and I'm going to seize your ship and cargo and detain you and your men on board."

1962

. . . this was made all the more important by our arrangement to rendezvous with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police boat on the other side.