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n.
in the North West Mounted Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the smallest administrative unit; a police post.
Quotations
1889
Leaving a detachment on this spot, the officer was to move westward with the rest of his command. . . .
1929
A detachment of the Northwest Mounted Police was stationed there [Fort Pitt].
1945
Both [Arctic] districts have a number of widely separated detachments, each usually manned by a non-commissioned officer and a constable, who are responsible for the policing of their particular detachment area.
1958
Canada's sovereignty in the north has been maintained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since 1903, when the first police detachment in the eastern Arctic was established at Cape Fullerton, near Chesterfield Inlet.