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Thread #104278   Message #2133520
Posted By: bobad
25-Aug-07 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cover blown on Quebec police tactics
Subject: RE: BS: Cover blown on Quebec police tactics
Canada has three levels of policing; federal, provincial and municipal. The federal force is the RCMP. Three provinces have provincial forces (Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland (large urban areas only). The remainder of the country (and rural Newfoundland) contracts the provincial policing out to the RCMP. As far as I know the only force (other than municipal) that has civilian review is Ontario, and that was only instituted in May of this year. For Quebec to introduce any sort of civilian oversight would require the consent of the police union, which is very powerful, it is widely believed that the union calls the shots in Quebec and they are not about to relinquish their powers.