At least 45 firearms have been stolen from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since 2014, including 33 handguns, seven rifles, four shotguns and a grenade launcher.
The data, which was obtained through an access to information request, shows that nearly half of these firearms were reported stolen from the RCMP in 2016, when the grenade launcher plus 18 handguns, two shotguns and a rifle were taken. Four Mountie handguns were also reported stolen last year in 2024.
After Montana’s attorney general said he received a request from the RCMP to conduct surveillance at several upcoming gun shows in his state, the Mounties would not confirm any plans to attend, but said they’re often involved in cross-border efforts to stem firearms trafficking that are not aimed at lawful gun owners.
Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen said last week the Montana Department of Justice and Division of Criminal Investigations had received a request from the RCMP to conduct surveillance at gun shows in Bozeman and Kalispell—a request he strongly opposes.
Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen said he has received a request from the RCMP seeking to conduct surveillance at two upcoming gun shows in his state—a request that he strongly opposes.
Knudsen said the Division of Criminal Investigation in the Montana Department of Justice recently received the RCMP request regarding gun shows in Bozeman and Kalispell. Knudsen said he will try to prevent the RCMP from coming.
The RCMP is planning to conduct undercover surveillance online using fake personas to investigate ideological extremists in Canada, says an internal strategy document.
Experts in ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE) in Canada say the strategy is overdue at a time when online extremism threatens to spill over into real world violence. They warn that extremist activity in Canada could increase in the wake of the U.S. election, regardless of who becomes the next president.
Civil liberties advocates say they fear that having officers carry out undercover investigations online using fake personas could violate charter rights or lead people to take actions they otherwise might not take.
You can bet Trudeau and all the usual suspects are hyperventilating in anticipation.
An RCMP official appearing before the foreign interference inquiry today refused to say whether any Chinese government “police stations” are still operating in Canada.
Asked by lawyers and later by journalists whether any of the so-called police stations are still active here, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Mark Flynn cited an ongoing investigation.
“That again falls into part of our ongoing investigation and I’m not speaking about it at this time,” Flynn told reporters.
RCMP aims to dramatically expand reach into remote areas via drones
The RCMP is looking to expand the growing use of drones by Canadian police, issuing a tender for long-range aircraft that could reach far-flung crime scenes and other incidents well before officers arrived.
VANCOUVER – Three RCMP members from a Metro Vancouver detachment could be fired over alleged “atrocious,” “racist” and “horrible” behaviour detailed by a fellow officer, including text chats that bragged about “Tasering unarmed black people,” court documents say.
A schedule from the RCMP shows Constables Philip Dick, Ian Solven and Mersad Mesbah are slated to appear next February for code of conduct hearings over allegations including discrimination, harassment and discrediting the police force.
None of the allegations have been proven.
… In total, 122 handguns, 55 shotguns, 23 rifles, three submachine-guns and two machine-guns have been reported lost by RCMP detachments across the country since 2020. Canadians are largely prohibited from using or acquiring machine-guns and submachine-guns, which are fully automatic and capable of rapid fire.
h/t DS and Mauser
The RCMP says it installed tools on digital devices to covertly collect electronic evidence in 32 cases over a recent five-year period.
The criminal offences being investigated in these cases from 2017 to 2022 involved national security, illicit drugs, financial misdeeds and other serious matters.
The national police force disclosed the statistics Tuesday in a report that provides details about various operational technologies, some of them little known to the public.
The commander of the RCMP in Nova Scotia delivered what he described as a long-overdue apology to the province’s Black residents on Saturday, acknowledging that the force’s past use of street checks did lasting harm to both individuals and communities.
Along with pulling out of the Canada Pension Plan, Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, has in the past floated the idea of replacing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a provincial police force.
Like every province except Ontario and Quebec, which have provincial forces, Alberta has contracted out rural policing to the Mounties for over 90 years, and several of its cities also outsource policing to the federal force.
And like every province that relies on the Mounties, grumbling about the cost and quality of the service the R.C.M.P. provides ebbs and flows in Alberta.
The RCMP is facing a growing “credibility gap” and must work to “enhance public trust” by being more transparent about its use of investigative technologies, according to an internal audit.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the audit highlights concerns over the Mounties’ lack of openness regarding their use of facial recognition technology and spyware, issues that have previously drawn criticism from a Commons committee.
The RCMP has been struggling for years to fulfill demands from the federal government that it bolster the ranks of officers who protect politicians, yet that unit has remained significantly short-staffed, records show.
The records, which were filed publicly as part of a labour board dispute, illustrate the challenges the RCMP will face during the scheduled 2025 federal election, when politicians across Canada will be campaigning amid a polarizing political climate.
How many SUV’s does Trudeau need?
Earlier today, I was in Brampton talking about climate change.
To get there, I took my 27-vehicle motorcade made up of SUVs and heavily armoured vans, which never shut their engines off.
We were also escorted by three police SUVs.
We are in a climate emergency. pic.twitter.com/j1jUSFQSNG
— Justin Trudeau's Ego (@Trudeaus_Ego) October 20, 2023
Does the RCMP want the truth? Can it handle the truth? The questions present themselves thanks to a bizarre entry in the Mounties’ latest “environmental scan” of ostensible risks to Canada’s security — everything from climate change to artificial intelligence, foreign conflicts and barriers to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
Under the umbrella of “socio-cultural” risks, we find an entirely false allegation against the National Post with respect to an alleged article “concerning increase in residential school denialism.”
The RCMP is run by lunatics and can no longer be trusted.
It’s an image as Canadian as anything on a coin — Mounties in their red serge dress uniforms, putting their horses through the complex paces of the renowned Musical Ride.
But after more than a century of entertaining summer crowds from coast to coast, the RCMP’s iconic Musical Ride is in trouble, plagued by low morale and staffing woes that threaten the program’s future, according to an internal audit conducted by the RCMP.
