Also, remember, the 'Mounties' or Royal Canadian Mounted Police, are not the daily police force a citizen encounters. As near as I can tell, the 'Mounties' are our version of the FBI.
@@jaybea365 Mounties compared to the FBI? No no my friend. The RCMP are your standard police force in most rural Candian cities. Most of the big cities have their own municipal police force, and i think there are even a few provincial police forces. But the mounties provide policing for any city not big enough to have its own force. CSIS is more comparable to the FBI.
I'm a Mountie in British Columbia. Essentially every area has the choice to form their own police service, but the default is to use the RCMP who have 26 weeks of boot camp in Regina and then 6 months of field training. This helps ensure the smaller communities have a higher base level of training compared to the USA. The Federal government also subsidizes 10-30% of the policing budget if your community uses the RCMP. And the red Serge uniform is essentially a traditional dress uniform.
im not against police but i think they need ot do their job and investigate Trudeau and DOug Ford otherwise alot of people are going to lose faiht in police..if they are truly about upholding the law investigate where all the funds they get come from they are basically a legalized mafia..
I have a question, as an RCMP officer, you are also a federal police, so would you do that too as just a everyday cop or do people get specialized jobs?
I’m from Regina and my Mother use to participate in RCMP training in scenario training. It was interesting growing up with so many Cadets who knew who I was through my Mother before my mother got sick from Cancer.
Im Canadian, living in Ontario. Major thing they are missing is every current police officer I know didn't get a job right away. They also completed a college program called police foundations. They worked another job or security for years before getting in. They all became a police officer after 25 years old.
Yeah, i very agree, i dont understand where they take this information but in quebec its minimum 3,5 years of police studies AFTER highschool... far more than "26 weeks"...
Yes know people who spent years trying to get hired with college course and one with a Uni degree. While smaller police forces might hire you off the streets at 18 or 19 it isn't normal anymore. Income also doesn't include overtime many earn 100K good benefits and pension. while their info is correct median salary in Canada is 77,000
Here in Norway it is first finish highschool (13 years here). Then getting into the police school. (About 26% get in) Then 3-4 years of studies, including mental and physical health checks. And if you do anything illegal during that time you are out. The training also includes a lot of de escalation training and how to counsel people.
The province of Quebec requires a 3 years technical college degree before being admitted to police academy. The total training is over 95 weeks or close to 3 years and a half. The degree requires high school results far above average and only about 3% are admitted into the program.
That is the problem with this kind of video. From the begining, they should have explain that a lot of Provinces, even some cities have their own police academies. The mounties are only one police force. And the waiting list to be part of this a ademy can be very long!!
I was just about to explain that but you did it so well ! Only the best students are getting in. Also I believe they have a lot psych tests they need to pass for them to even consider their application.
I find the easiest way to think about this is that if a region (town, city, region, province) does not provide a police force then the Mounties will take that role. Similar with the Ontario Police (OPP) in Ontario - i.e. Toronto has their own police, Peel Region have their own and those areas that do not will have OPP. I'm currently living in British Columbia - Vancouver has their own police services but Burnaby has the Mounties. Victoria and Saanich have their own but North Saanich and Sidney have RCMP. Every place has a police service.
@@captaincanada67 I think I know what you are trying to say, but all criminal offences are federal. I think you mean that, for example, if someone from B.C. commits a crime in Ontario and then returns to B.C., the OPP or the Toronto Police don't get to track them to B.C. the case would be referred to the RCMP.
For someone living in the US, I would describe it as the Mounties are very (verrrrrry) loosely like the FBI, but who will act like regional police in rural areas that don't have their own or provincial police. And they mostly dress and patrol like regular cops, but still maintain divisions that are mounted and the "traditional" uniform is ceremonial. Then provincial cops are like state troopers, who cover areas in the province with no dedicated force, then there are the city/regional cops, like in the US.
I live in a town of 2,000 people in rural Alberta and our every day police force is the RCMP. Don't know if it's typical of the Mounties or it's just small town living, but they're also very community involved outside of work hours. It's nice to see.
I live in a small town in British Columbia, where our only police force is the RCMP. I'll tell you a short story about my last interaction with them. I was walking to work and found a flight bag sitting on a bus bench. It's early in the morning and there's no one else around. I took a quick look in the bag and saw a passport, so I figured I had better turn it over to the police. I called and told them that I'd drop it off after work, as I work alone and it would take me nearly an hour to walk to the "cop shop" and back. No problem, they replied, we'll send a constable by your store to pick it up. Later that day, a young constable shows up and decides to check out our bookstore for a bit before heading back with the bag. After a bit he stops, sniffs, and says: "It smells like popcorn in here." "That would be because I'm eating popcorn." I reply. "Note the mad investigative skills." he says. On another note, anyone who wants to know about policing in Canada should check out Alex Archbold of Curiosity Inc. on UA-cam, in the episode where he discovers a big bag full of drugs in a storage unit he won at auction.
I live in Alberta small city and when my ex kicked me out of our townhouse and refused to let me back in the police informed me that I technically had the right to go in bat if I did and anything happened to the officer there for my safety then I would be held equally responsible to my ex because I was entering the property knowing he didn’t want me their and he had a history of violence not limited to murder. I also remember a news report about police arresting a woman who was raped as a way to force her into testifying because she was homeless and they didn’t want to lose their witness. That was in Edmonton.
Yes rural policing in Western Canada is done by the Mounties. They are in larger centres though in Greater Vancouver. I think within Alberta only Edmonton, Calgary, Camrose and Medicine Hat do not use the Mounties. So in Fort Mac or Red Deer you will find them too. Then you also have the Alberta Sheriffs which are largely highway patrol. But I do think Danielle Smith may have widened their powers to full peace officer status. It makes sense since it was a really dumb set up because the Sherrifs could pull a vehicle over. But if they discovered something criminal in nature such as say possession of narcotics, they could detain the occupants of the vehicle, but had to radio for Mounties (or municipal Police if in those communities) to come and actually execute the arrests. I am sure there is more to it from the Premier's end than simply this. My suspicion is she is looking at replacing the Mounties with the Sherrifs. Ostensibly because she doesn't want orders coming from Ottawa to interfere with Alberta. Here in Saskatchewan, Scott Moe is starting the Saskatchewan Marshall Service likely for the same reason. But with the incredibly high start up costs, unless somehow the Sask Party is reelected, the Marshall Service will only have existed on paper. I don't think they have anyone in place yet for it. So there is no Chief (or whatever title the head will have) or anything working for them yet. I also have no idea how he plans on hiring enough members to fill the void if he truly wants the Mounties out. I wouldn't be giving up my job, pension, benefits etc. from the RCMP to join a brand new Marshall Service that might not have any idea what they are doing.
FYI, the red mounty suit is more of a ceremonial uniform than anything else (as are the actual mounted officers). Also, every major canadian city has its own police force. Ontario and Québec also have their own provincial police (Ontario Provincial Police (or OPP) and the Sureté du Québec (SQ). These provincial police corps has jurisdiction over highways, inter-police operations and generally assume regular police duties in less populated areas. In all other provinces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police act as the de facto police force (except in some major cities, where they are able to fund their own forces within the city's budget). It is not unusual to see cooperation between local police forces, SQ/OPP and/or RCMP, especially when they have to deal with major criminal organisations. I think that the MAJOR difference is that american cops are equipped with more weapons and equipments and are proner to use coercitive force than canadian cops, while the latter are more inclined to go privilege preventive interventions rather than coercitive actions.
@@shalewarbringer7848 Being ignorant about something and not caring about that something are two separate things. It's not like your 5000 word comment contained pertinent or even interesting information.
@@mmc1730 These informations mayy not be of interest to you, but they appear to be pertinent in the comment section of a video that is SPECIFICALLY tring to help understand how the canadian police fare vs their american counterpart. By all means, just don't read it and let those who want to broaden their knowledge do so.
My daughter just started her police career. She has 3 degrees, including a Masters degree. The hiring process included a preliminary written test, a first interview, a psychological assessment, background checks and interviews with your immediate family and any significant others, provision of 9 letters of reference from an equal number of employment, community outreach, and character and personal contacts, a physical fitness test, a medical fitness test, a second interview, a hearing evaluation, a third interview, and a final interview with the Chief of Police, Director of Human Resources and the chair ofcthe Police Board. After being hired, you spend several weeks doing preliminary training, then go to Police College for 13 weeks. After graduation you go back to your detachment, then spend the next 3 months with your coach officer on the road. During that time, you are responsible for keeping up your own physical training and conditioning and they continue with regular firearms training. It's a really long process, and they really do their due diligence on selecting candidates. And she just turned 30
@@elizabethfelet4743 My brother is a police officer in Ontario and doesn't have any University degree at all. It is not a pre-requisite but I am sure it will help your daughter go far in her career, congrats!!
There are issues of police brutality and police accountability here in Canada, but they don't seem to be as prevalent as they are in the US. Unfortunately, the general trend among Canadian police has been that they've been getting a little more like American police over recent decades, and there has also been a *VERY* long and dark history of the RCMP's relations to the indigenous community too. It's not all sunshine and roses, but looking at the situation in the US, it doesn't feel quite as bleak by comparison,
Canadian views are that we are more willing to find out what a problem is and where it lies, and change it. American society barely changes. Let corruption fester and everyone pays for it dearly.
Part of that is also that we have a 1/10th the population of the U.S. (actually we have roughly the population of California, but close enough). So there's just going to be less incidents as a whole. That said, I've been concerned about the militarization of our police, there is a level of escalation that's worrying. When I was young I had no fear of the cops, since then I have twice had them go for their firearms while talking to me, once after completing an instruction they gave me, and another time because me and my friends yelled to get another friend's attention at a park. The willingness of law enforcement to preemptively engage in aggressive action is something you just cannot get around when dealing with them now, and how stressful dealing with them is for an average citizen, let alone one with compromised social functions, cannot be overstated (I know two people who were arrested after calling the police to report a crime, neither of whom were later charged with anything or found to be committing any wrong other than being reportedly "difficult", one of whom was placed in fetters). One of my brothers is indigenous (he's adopted), and the difference in how Police treat him when we've been together is stark, nearly cartoonish in it's obvious bias. There's some stark issues in policing no matter where you go, and they seem to be getting worse as we go on. Not sure exactly how to solve them, but some kind of reform seems to be needed. (Possibly an expansion of the role of Social Workers, as a more on call role for things like reporting offences and conflict resolution.)
Especially in Ottawa on Parliament Hill last February when the Ottawa police officers abusing their power by being forceful upon peaceful protesters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. There was no need for so much police force in Ottawa to take care of 50 or 60 peaceful protesters who who were no threat to the the police force or even Justin Trudeau. When Justin Trudeau got rid of all the trucks from Ottawa and all the truckers with them, he expected everyone to be gone, and not have some protesters left behind carrying flags and signs saying F U Trudeau. And so Justin Trudeau had to have them removed by any means necessary and if that meant calling an emergency act on them, then so be it was his attitude.
Man cops in Canada are killers they smashed me off the road and beat me inducing a comatose and said I flew out the window. I seen my blood on my air bag and the hole side of my car smashed in. This same cop shot my friend dad because he had a cellphone. Said the red light was a beam from a gun he is dead cop never got fired until he stole gas from the city
Just for fun, you should try doing a movie reaction to "Bon Cop, Bad Cop". It's a buddy cop action comedy about an Ontario Provincial Police detective and a Sûreté du Québec detective who have to work together to solve a murder that literally straddled the border between the two provinces. The sequel is also good if not better.
I noticed one in a town of 400 did not carry a gun. When I asked what he would do if he saw someone stealing a TV out of a nearby home, he said "I would yell 'Billy - just wait until your Grandma hears about this" . . . remote policing at its finest!
I live in an isolated community, and we generally love our RCMP officers. Some are tools, but most try to give back to the community by volunteering for something like coaching a school sport, liaising with students, and helping with community events. At present, our local detachment is led by a woman who is greatly respected and is seconded by a very tall officer (aka “Stretch”), both of whom like to hang out with the locals. Officers like these are gems. As each officer can only stay for 4 years (pout), we’ll lose these two in a couple of months. Their replacements will have big shoes to fill (pun intended, Stretch).
@@lizzyfolks9116 Neat, i live in semi-rural BC and my uncle was unlawfully dragged out, beaten, and thrown in jail over night because a higher up thought his kid was dating their daughter, also the same lady who informed us has been on video pulling over a car and killing the dog inside for no reason, i fondly remember the time my younger brother was dying of a blood sugar low, and the cops bravely started trying to find drugs and getting in the way of the actual help, and after finding nothing making snide comments and standing around uselessly, sure do love all the help they provide, especially when a man who had literally tried to commit a murder suicide on my grandmother tried to come back to our property and the police refused to get involved to help enforce the restraining order and we had to contact the RCMP headquarters and work with out of town policing to have anything done. I sure do love the perfectly uncorrupt not at all incompetent police officers i'm familiar with who definitely aren't racist and don't murder native folk whenever they get a chance. Other side though i've never had any issues with the non-local RCMP, just hardworking honest folk as far as i can tell, and i've also met a few decent cops, and likely the local police are the issue, not the whole, but in my experience, the cops are absolutely a bad idea to call, just deal with whatever it is yourself, it'll be a lot safer that way.
If you ever get the chance to watch Due South, it was an iconic series in the 90s about a Chicago cop pairing with a Canadian Mountie. It aired for 4 seasons. It played a lot on stereotypes from both our countries. It's a very enjoyable series to binge watch, and still one of my favorite series to this day.
Tyler, you’re the most open minded American I’ve seen on UA-cam! Love that you want to learn about, not aboot, our culture and Canadians in general. There’s the Aylmer, Ontario Police College for all who wish to be an officer. 🇨🇦 🖖🏻
@@mackwiz1 That may be so, but if you want to be a cop in Ontario, that’s where you’ve got to go. Doesn’t mean politics has to be involved or mentioned. Asked my BIL if he knew that political environment when he went to the cop college there. Wasn’t aware until I asked him moments ago … 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
My understanding of Canadian policing is that other than city police forces, Ontario and Quebec have provincial police forces, all other provinces and territories are policed by the R.C.M.P..
As a Canadian, i feel that the restricted access to firearms is a major component in the difference in the two countries. Here you have to pass certain tests in order to get a firearm and are very limited in how and where you may use the firearm. In short, the only people that normally carry a weapon are the Police or the Army.
You are absolutely right on this. This is very anecdotal but in the mid-80s, my Dad was a member of the Saskatoon Police and had made a pen pal out of a police officer from Oklahoma. The Oklahoman officer's in laws lived in North Dakota, so since Saskatoon is only a 5 hour drive north, my Dad invited him and his family to come visit. My Dad had to work during their visit and took the American with him as a ride a long one night. My Dad pulled over a car for some traffic offense, walked up to the car, spoke to the driver, came wrote up the ticket, gave to the driver and off the car went. My Dad's friend looked at him and said look at the courage on you. My Dad said what do you mean. His friend said if this was Oklahoma, I would have got on the loudspeaker demanded they get out of their car and lie facedown on the pavement, before I would approach them with my gun drawn. My Dad said for a traffic ticket? His friend said absolutely, if I had just done what you did I very likely could have had my head blown off since every vehicle in Oklahoma has a 12 gauge shotgun in it at the very least. Like I said this is 40 years ago and very anecdotal, but hearing my Dad tell this story has always stuck in my mind the difference between policing in Canada and policing in the US. Obviously, this is probably not the case in every state and might just be an issue in Oklahoma or even just the area of Oklahoma my Dad's friend was from. I am sure Americans will read this and say no way. But it is the way my Dad remembers the conversation with his friend that night.
Canadian here! Just wanted to add that as an RCMP member they can expect to be transferred to another city (within their province) every 3-5 years. Usually they have a say in where you will go to some degree but need to be accommodating at some point so that they can get promotions. Typically they start out in smaller towns and eventually can get transferred back closer to their home town.
For the RCMP you can actually be transferred anywhere in the country you can one year be in PEI and three years later being British Columbia the way it works is you give them A lists of 10 places you would like to go and they do their best to get within your top 3 at least top 5
In reality, Canadian cops make WAY more than their American counterparts. Most Canadian cops make nearly 6 figures after 10 years, and they universally start much higher than $37,000 per year... I don't know where that stat came from, but RCMP start at $63,000 per year, while Toronto cops start at $70,000.
Canadian here. The only interaction I've had with American police is when my Mr. and I were near Seattle (small town) looking for a hotel late one night. We pulled over some cops to get visitor info. Ha Ha, they were helpful but after seeing this video I realze how strange it must have been for them.
Also Canadian here: I lived in NY for 3 years and my most memorable interaction with a cop was asking politely a heavily armed guy what was going on when they were deployed in Time Square. His answer was, and I quote, "f- off, kid."
My interaction with US police involves an $800 speeding ticket for doing highway speed in city and yet i was in the bush and no signs. so. ? Where was this city?
LOL Similar story here! I'm Canadian and one summer I traveled to California with a couple of friends and we were trying to locate my friend's Aunt and Uncle's house in L.A. We saw a police car so we pulled over to ask them for directions. From our experience in The Yukon Territory, we could approach RCMP freely for assistance. The L.A. police were jumpy! They hopped out of their car and drew their guns! They gave us shit for how we approached them. Of course we raised our hands, apologized and explained, "Sorry! We are from The Yukon and we're lost...trying to find a relative's house." Whew that was tense!
I am Canadian, I went with a friend to a Buffalo sabers game one night, parked in the parking garage, we wanted to smoke before going in so we leave, to find a bunch of cops to the left corner and just one on the right corner, while we decided we couldn't smoke here, so we figure down an ally right in front of us. But then if the cops seen, they would come looking, so I decided to.just ask the one cop where to go eat around before the game. I walked straight up to his car, (winter) window rolled up, I knocked, scared him, he rolls down the window, all I could small was whiskey, so i ask my question, one line he gives me sends me to a spot right where all the other cops are at. And rolled he's window back up, Well that won't work for our smoke, so we just walked back to the parking garage door and said screw it and smoked it right there, while we watched to cops on each side of us. Fun night. Nothing happened to us
Also Canadian and my husband, myself and our two toddlers pulled up to a cop car in Corning, NY at about 2 a.m. to ask if he could recommend a safe place to stay. He looked confused and took us to the seediest place I 've ever been in and told us they only rarely got called there. That night someone was shot in the parking lot.
Canadian criminal lawyer here. The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is Canada's federal police service. That makes it the Canadian equivalent of the FBI with some notable differences - the main difference being that they will be regular everyday criminal law enforcers (and even provincial regulatory law enforcers) out in the boonies in ways the FBI just wouldn't operate. The scope of the FBI's policework is much more narrow and specialized. Some provinces (Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland) have their own provincial police services. They typically operate in the parts of their provinces that don't have their own municipal service. For instance, in Toronto, it would be much more common to see an officer of the Toronto Police Service than it would be to see an officer of the Ontario Provincial Police. The work of these provincial constables tends to be more rural. Larger towns and cities throughout Canada tend to have their own municipal police services (e.g. the Vancouver Police Service). Counties and municipalities without their own municipal police services, or provincial police service, contract with the RCMP to enforce both federal criminal laws and provincial quasi-criminal laws (e.g. highway traffic stuff). This makes the work of the RCMP largely rural and coastal. However, RCMP also specializes in large-scale criminal organizations, illicit drug imports, and gathering intelligence for national security. This work is usually done by highly trained, experienced, and specialized RCMP officers. There is also more overlap between municipal police and the RCMP in Ottawa, as the RCMP is charged with protecting national monuments in the National Capital Region. Although iconic, the red coats and big-brimmed hats are historic and not in everyday use. Today this garb is worn for more ceremonial occasions (e.g. police funerals or escorting visiting heads of state). On their everyday patrol, they wear grey and blue uniforms. Also iconic but out of date is the perceived ubiquity of horses. Though they are still called "mounties", very few RCMP officers are still mountED. When Canada gained independence in 1867, the automobile had yet to be invented and the frontier was very much untamed. Horses were vital for traversing mountains and the open plains. Now, when you see them on patrol, they'll probably just look like regular cops in regular police cruisers doing regular police work.
In Canada, there are 3 types of police officers. Municipal (cities), provincial and federal police. In the West, there are a lot of federal police, but almost none in Quebec.
Alright, to clear this up for you.... MOST places in Canada are covered by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the "Mounties") as the standard police force. It's only in larger municipal areas like Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, etc where you will find a municipal police force which is far more similar to the American style of policing. All of the smaller cities and towns have RCMP detachments where the majority of community policing is done. Also to clear things up, no they do NOT wear the fancy red uniforms all the time. Those are considered to be dress or special occasion uniforms and are not worn on day-to-day operations. I have a fairly high degree in knowledge of this as my parents were both career RCMP officers and I have seen all of this first hand.
The RCMP ("mounties") are basically THE federal level police in Canada, like US Federal Marshals, ATF, DEA, and FBI all rolled into one. Some provinces have provincial police that are like state police in the US and cover highways and rural areas too sparsely populated to have their own dedicated police, but in the provinces that don't have provincial police the RCMP also fills this role as well. Then we also have municipal police forces for each city and larger town, pretty much the same as the US has.
All provinces and territories in Canada rely on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for police services except for Quebec and Ontario. Quebec has its own provincial police force, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), while Ontario utilizes the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Similar to the United States, Canada also has municipal police services that operate in urban centers.
The Mounties provide two functions in Canada. The first as others have mentioned is that they provide on-the-ground police services for those areas of the country that do not provide local police functioning very much like state police in the USA. Only Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador have provincial police so the RCMP are not required to provide this function. This is also true for cities and towns that do not have a municipal police service. The second is that they have jurisdiction over federal cases so in this way they operate as the FBI does in the US.
NL does not have Provincial police. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary work in the capital but can enforce laws throughout the Province. Normally the RCMP police the Province outside of the capital.
RCMP are not required? Québec here, we have the RCMP and sometimes they're required, knowing that the Québec Provincial Police is more small than the RCMP C Division.
Also, their red uniforms are for parade and formal duties like escorting the prime minister or being in an event with heads of state of other countries. If they're doing regular duties like patrolling or filling form in their office, they're dress like in the picture you saw on the google image search.
The fact that they tend to operate in rural areas is the origin of a joke about their uniforms On the shoulder patch on their uniforms, it says "RCMP" and "GRC". These mean "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" and "Gendarmerie royale du Canada" But the joke is that they actually stand for "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" and "Gravel Road Cop"
I considered becoming a police officer in Toronto but after talking to a few about their job decided not to. Hearing “no one is happy to see you”, “every day you are part of the worst day in a person’s life” and imagining how seeing people at their very worst all the time would change me, was what made me decide to pass on this hat career path.
I imagine the larger the city, the narrower the differences are between USA police and Canadian police as per this video. Toronto being our country's largest city... yeah, I can see it being the most stressful place to be a cop that we have.
The Mountie uniform is more of a parade uniform, usually used for formal or flashy events. The day to day uniform is more in line with what you are familiar with.
Here in Quebec, you need to do 2 or 3 years of college in "Techniques Policières" or Police Techniques , to learn the Laws, their applications and how to enforce them. Then, you have to receive a hiring promise from a Police service from either a Municipal service, the Provincial Police , the First Nations Peacekeepers, or even the Canadian National Police (Wich is the only private police service in Canada, to protect the infrastructures of the Canadian National Railway Systems), to be accepted into the National Police Institute, where you'll serve for close to 6 months in the city of Nicolet as the police service in tandem with certified instructors , to learn the best way to apply the Laws you're going to sworn to uphold, and most importantly, how to interact cordially with the public, who are going to pay your salary through their taxes, and you will swore to protect! That is also a HUGE DIFFERENCE from how Americans can become police officers.
In Canada, cities have their own police services. In some provinces (other than Ontario and Quebec) provincial services are contracted with federal police (RCMP), as commented below. In general, RCMP, like FBI and FSB, handle federal matters like drug smuggling and assassination threats. ``Mounted' ' part of the name carries over from past centuries (welcoming of rebel refugee Sitting Bull and tribe). Now they drive white cars with fancy detailing. USA population is 10 times Canada's so 10 times police and highway speeds are more relaxed, due to less congestion.
I love your shows! There's an old Canadian comedy called Corner Gas that have 2 rural RCMP officers and the exaggerated level of crime in rural Canada they deal with. LOL
rcmp are a national police force, some provinces have provincial police, then there are city cops followed by by-law officers and finally you have department of HI ways (usually concerned with commercial trucks)
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are “mounted” because the service started as the North West Mounted Police which did exactly what the name suggests. They were a paramilitary force with horses patrolling the wild North West Territories. Over time the NWMP role expanded to cover the whole country and the name updated to RCMP. You can still see the RCMP wear Red Serge when they graduate from RCMP Training, at certain official events, (like when the Major and Council official photo is taken in my city), when they ride in the Musical Ride, at a police funeral etc. For example, four RCMP in Red Serge mounted (on Canadian RCMp horses previously gifted to the Queen) rode at the front of the procession ahead of her coffin during the funeral because of the special relationship between the RCMP and the Queen. They carry the name “Royal” and donate horses to the Queen. The Queen’s favorite horse was an RCMP horse for many years for example.
There was a good TV show on years ago, called Due South. It paired an RCMP officer with an American cop stationed in America. it was a good show. When I was a young girl my Mom ran a boarding house and we had 2 RCMP officers living with us . My Mom was single at the time and was a waitress at the restaurant next door to the RCMP headquarters in Calgary , Alberta and the officers often ate lunch at the restaurant. They were just the nicest guys, Neil Burrows was one and the other fellows name was Scotty but I can't recall his last name. We had the safest house in the neighborhood lol
Canadian police services aren't entirely without prejudice. There is a higher percentage of Indigenous people in prison than white people. Also, a stat circulated that Toronto police were more likely to use violence in an incident involving black people than white people. No, we haven't had any infamous acts of violence between police and visible minorities but our police services are not without prejudice and need for improvement.
I find that people in Canada are too compliant because we look to our neighbors to the south and see how much better we are in terms of racial bias. Being better than Americans in that regard is not a high enough bar for us to hold ourselves to. We need to do better.
Are you suggesting that we need equal representation by race in prisons ? Wouldn’t prison demographics be proportional to criminality of the individual persons in a given population?
@@eswing2153 but that's not how it works. They give harsher punishments to non-whites. They convict them on less evidence and they stop and search them more than 10x more. Conviction rates and crime rates are very different things.
There have been occasional noteworthy cases of excessive violence (in scale and frequency) towards the black communities in Toronto, Montreal and to a lesser degree Ottawa and I think Halifax and those communities have long complained that they get harsher and more hostile treatment. That said, the scale of the issue is nothing like it is in the US and more closely resembles the kind of police prejudices you might see in Europe. We don’t have the same history or demographics when it comes to our black population (most black Canadians are of fairly recent Caribbean or African immigrant roots). The treatment of indigenous peoples by the RCMP and the justice system in general over the years is a national embarrassment.
Mounties are the Canadian police. But some cities do have their own city police, some of our other police are: Municipal enforcement OPP Public safety officer Peace officers. But we don't have a general police force other than RCMP.
As others have said we have issues with the cops in Canada. Canadian police draw their weapons far less frequently which is likely why fewer people are shot. Also for the OPP anyway high speed chases are not really a thing bc of the danger to the public. (This has been told to me by a friend who is OPP). First responders up here have a higher than average suicide rate as well sadly. Support is improving but not nearly fast enough.
the mounties are the federal police force. Basically the FBI of Canada, but they also act as local and provincial(state) police in most of the country. Their red uniform is their ceremonial one. But normally they have normal police officer uniform. In Quebec, the police officers have to do a mandatory 3 year police program with severe physical requirements, then have to do an intensitve 3-4 month academy. So the full process is 3 years and a half, the screenings and evaluations are constant.
Not sure of the exact specifications for OPP, but I believe they have to do a college course in police foundations (like a 2-3year community college diploma) while some do University (bachelor's) degrees for later career advancement. Then they also undergo training at the OPP college after being hired, then possibly train further there for career advancement throughout their career. This video is very misleading in a few areas, it seems to me.
also don't forget we have 10th of the population of the States....but I think our cops still suffer a lot of PTSD on and off the job.....it comes with the territory on both sides of the border...
My cousin's husband is a retired RCMP officer in Saskatchewan. He wasn't really out on the highways or in direct contact with criminals in the later stage of his career, though. He taught classes at the academy.
In Canada there's 3 levels of police services. The first is federal and accomplish by the R.C.M.P. ( the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ) and they have normal uniforms, the red ones are for ceremonies, caroussels, and others fancies stuffs. The second level is provincial, in Quebec it's the Sûreté du Québec ( Ontario is O.P.P., Ontario provincial police ). They cover all the territory of the province not cover by an other servive. The third level is municipal, city cops. In Quebec, the police works is teach in a 3 years course in a CEGEP ( equivalent to 1 year of college and two of university in U.S.A. ) with a special training in Nicolet.
The Mounties/Royal Canadian Mounted Police are a Federal police force. The red uniform is a formal dress. Although not directly connected anymore, CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) FBI/CIA equivalent, have been separate from the RCMP since 1984. The RCMP are provincial police outside of metro areas. You're likely to find them at the boarder between US/Canada, the Territories, and the large spaces in-between.
Im surprised that no one has commented on the dwindling trust we have with the police. After the trucker protest in Ottawa. Most people in ontario have more distrust in the police. Mostly do to the misinformation from the media and the bad decisions of the government. We are seeing more RCMP political issues. Mostly around the prime Minister and other mps. For reference i did go to college for law enforcement. I also completed the RCMP aptitude and psychology exam. I have family and friends on police forces. I have respect for the job and the people that do it. Which in turn causes me eminence distain for "bad cops" love your videos.
You are very typical of Americans I know. Kind, understanding, and empathetic. The reputation your citizens have is unfair, as it really has been earned by the minority of your countrymen. I’m glad you’re finding success with your Canadian content. If you ever visit us in the Great White North, you’ll have no shortage of places to stay!
The red uniform that the RCMP uses is for formal purposes such as the musical ride, embassy guards etc, the regular RCMP officers wear a more normal type uniform. Also as a Federal Force they do the jobs of the State police in the States
Canadians, in general, have developed trusting relationships with cops, however, racism is often ignored in videos about Canada despite its role in our society. When they talked about police killing citizens, you would find that the vast majority of those shot by police were non-white individuals, usually being Indigenous (native), and not necessarily acting in such a way as to expect to be shot.
In Ontario we have provincial police (OPP). But other than here and Quebec I believe all other provinces and territories contract the rcmp for provincial police services. The rcmp is also comparable to the FBI when it comes to important investigations and federal operations. (The Mounties only wear red ceremonially but usually just have your typical police uniform. And not all of them ride horses.)
You wouldn't want a Canadian trained police officer in the the states because the police have to be more like soilders due to the level of violence; that's why they use so many military terms like higway "patrol" or police "force" state "trooper"
I have a friend who just got hired by a local police force. She has a masters degree, worked in social services and is in extremely good shape. We also have an independent investigations office in British Columbia that looks into any shooting/death by a police officer for additional police oversight.
I have a BIL that's a municipal cop, and an ex that tried to be a cop. It's tough to be accepted for training here. You shouldn't even bother to apply unless you have minimum 2 year community college degree, and preferably a 4-year degree. In addition to the physical challenges, there are very in-depth psychological evaluations. Even I got interviewed when my ex applied because family support was part of the profile they build for each candidate. And they make way more than stated here. At their highest earning bracket, they make low 6-figures.
I have lived 50yrs in BC and Alberta, and everyone I know trusts and respects both Federal RCMP and city police, 90% of the time. (There have been some bad interactions as well.)
12:00 exactly! Our criminal code is federal so all the laws regarding that are the same. Provinces and cities have municipal bylaws for things like dogs, parking etc... It does make it a lot easier and it also means an officer can easily work in any detachment and sometimes in training they do get sent to work places. But from what I've seen, most officers don't "hit the streets" until they're a little older.
Correction needed here: annual salary for a policeman or women in Canada is 48 386 $ (as of april 1st 2021 and after 60 months is 84 366 $. There is a raise every six months after 4 years. The average is 45 to 46$ / hour. Tickets fines are part of the city budget or the province. So police service is not all paid for by taxes. City adiministrators factor in ticket fines in their yearly budget.
RCMP training also involves spending time outside in our freezing cold weather and being pepper sprayed amongst other things. There is a video on RCMP training you might like.
yep the one thing that Police and RCMP can have, and no one can have at all. the pepper spray can be bear spray when hunting. but can not be use on people or i think jail time mite be calling.
Another big difference between US and Canada police is the training. In Canada every province has their own police academy. So whatever service you join, youll start at the Provincial police academy, then you'll go to your services academy. Then you'll have you probationary period on the road
I recently found out that the RCMP is actually a paramilitary force. Their initial training is more military style than that of other police forces at the municipal and provincial level.
I'm a Dutch Canadian now living in New Zealand. I've never had a desire to live in the USA or even visit but I enjoy your relaxed take on comparing Canada to the US. I was expecting this video to be more dramatic and the differences to be greater than what they are.
1:54-2:02 had me howling. 🤣 Even as I was listening to it I was like “My gawd… talk about a harsh description of the States!” And the look on your face… I was dying 😆
I live in a small town which has many RCMP police. I had to call them when I was locked out by my disabled husband. The police officer climbed on my deck and opened the door for me, after checking on my husband. Very gracious men and am glad they are here.
When you think of Canadian Police do you think of ... Dudley Do Right ... Rocky and Bullwinkle ... horses? When you think of U.S. Police do you think of ... Sylvester Stallone ... in an armoured personnel carrier ... with ammo belts slung over his shoulders? Yup, that's the difference between Canadian Police and American Police.
Idk where these people are getting their information from, here in America u can’t apply to be a cop until you’re 20 and have to be 21 by the time u graduate the academy so there’s no cops out here under 21. Also, my local police force pays their probation officers $42,000 and after 1 year when they leave probation they are payed about $65,000 already. And getting pulled over in my city is so rare because my city has pretty high crime rates so the cops are more focused on big time crimes but you will see the usual pig body cop sitting on the side of the road(rare but not impossible).
Canadian here. The RCMP (Mounties) are the police force in many provinces smaller towns and cities and in the rural areas except for Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland/Labrador which have their own provincial police. In the larger cities all across Canada, most of them have their own municipal police services. Also, as others have noted, the red serge RCMP uniform is a ceremonial uniform only. The day to day uniform is quite different.
I'm Canadian and live literally 5 minutes from F Division of the RCMP, aka Depot, the training academy for every officer. They have definite standards and qualifications they look for in recruits.
My Dad and Uncle were in the RCMP, he left training in 58' and stayed in the first city he was transfered to, he did the musical ride, played on the RCMP football team, was had several jobs during his service and often was on " special duties, like guarding a dignitary on occassion.. never got transferred. My Uncle was transferred to several places before he had a petmanent post.
This video had several things wrong. In terms of wages, Canadian police officers are paid significantly more than most American police. Starting wages is a horrible indicator. In Canada, all police services Federal, Provincial, or City, typically stay within 10-15% of each other, and as of 2022, typically make around $100,000 to 110,000 per year. No matter where you work. Where as, in the USA, people often have to start off in lower paying communities with small tax base (and higher crime rates) and then try to get hired with a higher paying police force once they get experience. Police officers will often switch police forces several times to make a better wage. In Canada, police officers tend to stay with the same service for their entire 30 year career; although they can apply to different police services, it would be to relocate, and not for the paycheque. Because of this, most police officers have either a college or university degrees, as a lot more educated people are competing to get hired as a police officer. Finally, Canada doesn’t have elected Sheriffs or Chiefs. You need to be promoted and work your way up the ranks. This way, you don’t get a “new Sheriff in town” mentality, where they can hire their high school buddies, and family members. Small/Rural towns and highways between towns in Canada are policed by either Federal (RCMP) or Provincial police (OPP in Ontario, or Sûreté du Québec in Quebéc), where municipal/city police take care of their own respective cities. RCMP will often have very small detachments in cities they don’t actively police in, and will assist or liase with municipal police for international or cross province crimes. Kind of like a happy version of the FBI, but more hands off, and will only assist if requested or required.
I grew up in rural Canada, on the prairies and the “Mounties” were our main police force backed by local town/ city police in the towns. They are still a very large presence in our area.
The RCMP uniforms they are showing are ceremonial. The difference between the RCMP and a city ‘s local police force typically is just the crest and the stripe colour on their pants.
I think a Major difference is the attitude towards the general public. Even in the big cities in Canada the police in general have a helpful, community mindset. Sure we still have some bad, power tripping cops but I think far less than the USA. There is a guy on youtube (don't remember the name) who ships a rare super car from Dubai around the world to drive in different countries and he has a video comparing his interactions with Canadian and American police..... the way each countries police approach and interact with him is Very telling..
In 2022 there were 1096 deaths caused by the police in the USA, while in Canada there were 69. To become a police officer, every Province is different. Generally larger cities have their own Police departments, rural communities have the RCMP and some Reserves have their own Tribal Police. Some cities require Criminal Law and Officer Safety Exams, physical fitness testing, interviews, polygraph testing, psychological testing, medical exams, background investigations, and approval by a selection committee. Also, an applicant must be a Canadian citizen, fluent in English or French, meet vision and hearing standards. In some jurisdictions it is beneficial to have a University degree and a history of volunteerism.
Your videos are fantastic! I like the open mindedness and love of learning you share with the world. I see a lot of Canadian's comments and wonder if your audience is mostly Canadian? Which is really awesome and kinda funny when you think about it.
I'm Norwegian x French, have lived in several other countries including the US, currently Canada - and frankly, this goon drives me nuts with his level of ignorance and laughing at things non-US. I've tried blocking his account, but it still gets shoved in my face 🤬
Honestly I have nothing negative to say about the police in Canada (from personal experience). In the North on Ontario (maybe it's different in other regions), they have always been super kind hearted people who leave positive impacts on the communities they work in. They care so much and it's great to see. When I see how badly USA citizens distrust their police, it's shocking since where I live the police has always been what I would consider safe people. It does help that living in smaller cities (populations of under 50,000) you most likely personally know some, if not most, of the officers, but I would still trust officers in a major city like Toronto. Even any form of security or guard in high traffic areas bring comfort and safety, and I am never scared to ask them for help (and I always know that they are willing and able to help in any way they can). They are just great and I feel safe around them which I know sadly can't be said by everyone and especially not by a vast majority of people in the USA or in some other countries.
Great video. A buddy and I got busted for under age drinking and smoking weed in high school. When he said dump the liquor we poured it out on his pants and boots by accident, for real. He just said beat it and I dont want to run into you guys again. Canadian cops want to help for the most part. I'm positive he could have ran us in for something, but let us go because it would ha e ruined 2 teenagers life forever.
Just to address your perception of the Mounties, they are not a specialized force per se. They do do some specialized things like protection for the Prime Minister or the Royals. But they also do municipal policing in a lot of areas. In rural Western Canada, they are the local police. Most major cities have their own police services, but the Mounties do serve parts of Greater Vancouver. In Ontario and Quebec they don't do local policing because of provincial police services. As far as the red serge, that is the Mounties' tunics. In their normal day to day policing they wear tan uniform shirts, dark pants with a yellow stripe down them and a yellow staff cap. They also wear the requisite bullet proof vests and carry the same sort of equipment in the same sort of belts as Americans do. Most Municipal police services wear a similar uniform, though most wear navy blue shirts like the LAPD with dark pants with a red or blue stripe and a staff cap. There are a few transit police that wear the stetson that the Mounties wear with their serges, but that isn't typical in Canada, as you will see with some State Troopers in the US. But by and large if you put an American municipal officer and a Canadian municipal officer side by side, their uniforms would look very similar.
As the video said, policing in Canada is community based. Cities and towns are responsible for policing, and if they don't have the resources to field a police services, they will contract either the RCMP or in Ontario and Quebec the provincial police. On top of community policing, the OPP and SQ do highway enforcement and other specially enforcement activities. The RCMP also act as a Federal police like the FBI do in the US. They also perform services similarly to the Secret Services, providing security for the Canadian Parliament and the office of the Governor General.
I'm sure someone has already pointed this out, but, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the Mounties) is the Canadian police service. Although there are independent provincial and city police services.
A good friend is a local cop in Ontario, has been for a few years. He makes $90k+OT and everyone he trained with were built like athletes and all highly educated. There is a college policing program, and even with that a university undergrad might be needed to set you apart from other applicants. I think with the average salaries in this video it may take into account all the admin and non actual police officer type staff employed by a department. Also the amount of investigatory and follow up work he does that TV shows make you think detectives do is surprising. It's also why cops don't have time to care that your neighbour put their garbage bag on your side of the curb or other dumb shit. He also will carry an overdose dead body out of an apartment where he also just carried a 6 year old kid out that had been surviving for days on their own with their dead parent and then be expected to just go back to work. Or a gun shot suicide. And narcans an OD at least once per shift rotation and half the time the person literally comes back to life and bitches he ruined their high then tries to fight him. So next time you're doing 80k in a school zone and decide to be a dick to the cop that justifiably pulled you over, remember they may have handled a bloated dead body that morning and really don't want to be dealing with your shit.
Bro, all y’all who don’t know what what that red uniform is it is a mountain uniform, but you would normally see that uniform worn by a lot of the Canadian police in ceremonies that is their ceremonial uniform
The 'Red Surge' uniforms were the original back in the 1800's or beyond. The force was known as the 'Royal Canadian Mounted Police or 'Mounties' for short. The Serge is ceremonial.
They really didnt go into the RCMPs training regiment, its pretty in depth and to me seems closer to military training. For example the big one that is often the cutoff for many is the exposure training, where they have to endure exposure to various gasses and sprays like mace, teargas etc. for a prolonged period.
This video is pretty flawed in that most of the time its comparing the average US municipal LEO to the Canadian RCMP which while only loosely is like our equivalent to the US' FBI.
What u were seeing in the video is the RCMP in red surge which is their dress uniform. They also have blues but all cops have a set of red serge as a dress uniform they don’t use their dress uniform on a day-to-day basis
Toronto, Cdn police profile here too. More police applicants now, have college courses. Ours must stay in shape, and none are militarized. RCMP is our national police like the FBI. Langley like training is available there. Hope that provides a little more info.
Canada has regular police and also Royal Canadian mounted police.Mounties have a work uniform similar to other police. The red uniforms are their dress uniforms which are usually worn in parades or special events. Also they are usually only on horses during special events or parades. Other times they use vehicles like everyone else.
I'm Canadian, living in Montreal. One thing to remember is that Canada has only 10% of the US's population. So that 1000 a year killed by cops, would only be 100, or our 15 would be 150, but still quite a difference. I would also love for you to react to Cops From Around the World react to US policing. You should enjoy that one too!!
It's very rare to see a Canadian police officer on the beat who is under 26. With college courses, training requirements and a typical requirements for additional life experience, Canadian police forces, including the RCMP, aren't accepting trainees in under age 25. Each large city in Canada has their own police force, and there are a few provincial police forces, such as the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police), Alberta Sheriffs and the QPP (Quebec Provincial Police). The RCMP are a federally operated police force, which does a number of things, but they also provide law enforcement for smaller communities that otherwise wouldn't be able to afford setting up a local police force. One of the huge differences, though, is that most cops in Canada don't have to treat every single call as a possible firearms situation, because there are so few firearms in Canada. This greatly reduces the stress of dealing with traffic stops, domestic issues, and other general misdemeanors.
Mounties are the basic police here in Canada they are referred to here as RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) with that said some cities here in Canada have their own Police force that work in that cities limits or boundary cities that have this type of police for example is Vancouver BC the police force there is called Vancouver Police the wraps on the police vehicles are different from the slandered RCMP's white with blue, red, and Yellow strips if the police unit is a city unit that unit has a different vehicle appearance just as in the USA each region has it's own style. And as @clarissathompson mentioned the Mounties red uniform is a ceremonial uniform not the standard uniform so in other words the red uniform is the RCMP's Dress uniform.
You are confusing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which is the federal police (think FBI) were as some provinces have a provincial police forces but most municipalities will have their own police force. The provinces that do not have their own provincial police force, sub-contract the RCMP to act as the provincial police. The advantage of using the RCMP is that staffing for a location can be chosen from anywhere across Canada as they all go through the exact same training. The local police departments will hire from the local population first.
Mounties is the non official name for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is the federal and national law enforcement agency of Canada. The term "mounted" refers to their history of being trained to carry out their duties while mounted on horseback. Although the RCMP primarily uses modern vehicles today, their horseback heritage is still a significant part of their identity, often showcased in ceremonial duties and public demonstrations.
I'm Canadian, and mostly from rural areas on the east coast. I'm not super familiar with the training required for provincial/city police but I do know they have to go to a police academy. On the other hand, the RCMP don't need that, but they have a pretty intense boot camp in Regina that they attend. Fun fact, correctional officers go to the same camp. I have family who work in both fields, and they all lost significant weight during the boot camp.
The RCMP which is a Federal police service and they provide police services to all areas in Canada if the municipality doesn’t have one of the following two police forces. The RCMP also assists the other forces with large or cross country cases. Ontario has its own Provincial police force, and some large Canadian cities will have their own Municipal police force. The red RCMP “serge” is the formal dress for special ceremonial occasions, otherwise the officers wear their blue, gray with yellow stripes on their trousers uniforms. Residents in most Canadian towns, and rural areas (exception Ontario) will rely on the RCMP as their police service, but there are RCMP offices in all large centres even if they have a Provincial or Municipal force . It should be noted that the RCMP rotates their officers around the country every 4 to 5 years. I hope this helps.
I know that the red uniform can be confusing when you don't live in Canada. The Red Serge is used as a ceremonial uniform, not their daily kit.
Exactly It’s like the Marines Blues ceremonial uniform.
Also, remember, the 'Mounties' or Royal Canadian Mounted Police, are not the daily police force a citizen encounters. As near as I can tell, the 'Mounties' are our version of the FBI.
@@jaybea365 Mounties compared to the FBI?
No no my friend.
The RCMP are your standard police force in most rural Candian cities.
Most of the big cities have their own municipal police force, and i think there are even a few provincial police forces.
But the mounties provide policing for any city not big enough to have its own force.
CSIS is more comparable to the FBI.
@@jaybea365 i was going to post exactly this, the rcmp (mounties) are our fbi equivalent and csis is our cia equivalent
@@jaybea365 Mounties are basically like the provincial police for everywhere except Ontario and Quebec where the OPP and QS are provincial police
I'm a Mountie in British Columbia. Essentially every area has the choice to form their own police service, but the default is to use the RCMP who have 26 weeks of boot camp in Regina and then 6 months of field training. This helps ensure the smaller communities have a higher base level of training compared to the USA. The Federal government also subsidizes 10-30% of the policing budget if your community uses the RCMP. And the red Serge uniform is essentially a traditional dress uniform.
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im not against police but i think they need ot do their job and investigate Trudeau and DOug Ford otherwise alot of people are going to lose faiht in police..if they are truly about upholding the law investigate where all the funds they get come from they are basically a legalized mafia..
Thank you for explaining it. I think RCMP is more of a general police while any others are more specific to the regions needs.
I have a question, as an RCMP officer, you are also a federal police, so would you do that too as just a everyday cop or do people get specialized jobs?
I’m from Regina and my Mother use to participate in RCMP training in scenario training. It was interesting growing up with so many Cadets who knew who I was through my Mother before my mother got sick from Cancer.
Im Canadian, living in Ontario. Major thing they are missing is every current police officer I know didn't get a job right away. They also completed a college program called police foundations. They worked another job or security for years before getting in. They all became a police officer after 25 years old.
Yeah, i very agree, i dont understand where they take this information but in quebec its minimum 3,5 years of police studies AFTER highschool... far more than "26 weeks"...
Agree I know no one that out of high school got in to the police services - all required some sort of post secondary.
Yes know people who spent years trying to get hired with college course and one with a Uni degree. While smaller police forces might hire you off the streets at 18 or 19 it isn't normal anymore. Income also doesn't include overtime many earn 100K good benefits and pension. while their info is correct median salary in Canada is 77,000
Lots of people get a job as a cop right out of high school. I know 4 or 5.
@@JadeaRS4 unless you live in Surrey, toronto or a similar place where no one wants to police I cry BS.
Here in Norway it is first finish highschool (13 years here). Then getting into the police school. (About 26% get in) Then 3-4 years of studies, including mental and physical health checks. And if you do anything illegal during that time you are out. The training also includes a lot of de escalation training and how to counsel people.
This is what training should be worldwide
That sounds really good. Much more training in many areas. 👍
Again Norway beats out every other country! 😂
You can join at 18 but chances of getting in at that age they more than likely will tell you , you don't have enough life skills re apply
I can not get over how the people talk to the police jn the states !
The province of Quebec requires a 3 years technical college degree before being admitted to police academy. The total training is over 95 weeks or close to 3 years and a half. The degree requires high school results far above average and only about 3% are admitted into the program.
That is the problem with this kind of video. From the begining, they should have explain that a lot of Provinces, even some cities have their own police academies. The mounties are only one police force. And the waiting list to be part of this a ademy can be very long!!
I was just about to explain that but you did it so well ! Only the best students are getting in. Also I believe they have a lot psych tests they need to pass for them to even consider their application.
of all the provincial police forces Quebec it the WORST!!!
@@T.N.S.A.F. bull the OPP tries hard to be as bad ..the QPP's bad
rep is a hangover from the 5-s
@@T.N.S.A.F. i would say it depends of the city they work for. I've met police from SQ that were very nice. But police from my area are really douches
Tyler missed the line about Canadian police needing to be tested for their MENTAL health, as well as physical, when he said the criteria was the same.
they do get tested
That is a good point. Need to weed out the ones that really like power. They are public servants.
I find the easiest way to think about this is that if a region (town, city, region, province) does not provide a police force then the Mounties will take that role. Similar with the Ontario Police (OPP) in Ontario - i.e. Toronto has their own police, Peel Region have their own and those areas that do not will have OPP.
I'm currently living in British Columbia - Vancouver has their own police services but Burnaby has the Mounties. Victoria and Saanich have their own but North Saanich and Sidney have RCMP.
Every place has a police service.
spot on
Also all Federal crimes are referred to the RCMP.
@@captaincanada67 I think I know what you are trying to say, but all criminal offences are federal. I think you mean that, for example, if someone from B.C. commits a crime in Ontario and then returns to B.C., the OPP or the Toronto Police don't get to track them to B.C. the case would be referred to the RCMP.
The RCMP on a federal level acts similar to the FBI
For someone living in the US, I would describe it as the Mounties are very (verrrrrry) loosely like the FBI, but who will act like regional police in rural areas that don't have their own or provincial police. And they mostly dress and patrol like regular cops, but still maintain divisions that are mounted and the "traditional" uniform is ceremonial.
Then provincial cops are like state troopers, who cover areas in the province with no dedicated force, then there are the city/regional cops, like in the US.
I live in a town of 2,000 people in rural Alberta and our every day police force is the RCMP. Don't know if it's typical of the Mounties or it's just small town living, but they're also very community involved outside of work hours. It's nice to see.
I live in a small town in British Columbia, where our only police force is the RCMP. I'll tell you a short story about my last interaction with them. I was walking to work and found a flight bag sitting on a bus bench. It's early in the morning and there's no one else around. I took a quick look in the bag and saw a passport, so I figured I had better turn it over to the police. I called and told them that I'd drop it off after work, as I work alone and it would take me nearly an hour to walk to the "cop shop" and back. No problem, they replied, we'll send a constable by your store to pick it up. Later that day, a young constable shows up and decides to check out our bookstore for a bit before heading back with the bag. After a bit he stops, sniffs, and says: "It smells like popcorn in here." "That would be because I'm eating popcorn." I reply. "Note the mad investigative skills." he says. On another note, anyone who wants to know about policing in Canada should check out Alex Archbold of Curiosity Inc. on UA-cam, in the episode where he discovers a big bag full of drugs in a storage unit he won at auction.
I live in Alberta small city and when my ex kicked me out of our townhouse and refused to let me back in the police informed me that I technically had the right to go in bat if I did and anything happened to the officer there for my safety then I would be held equally responsible to my ex because I was entering the property knowing he didn’t want me their and he had a history of violence not limited to murder.
I also remember a news report about police arresting a woman who was raped as a way to force her into testifying because she was homeless and they didn’t want to lose their witness. That was in Edmonton.
Yes rural policing in Western Canada is done by the Mounties. They are in larger centres though in Greater Vancouver. I think within Alberta only Edmonton, Calgary, Camrose and Medicine Hat do not use the Mounties. So in Fort Mac or Red Deer you will find them too.
Then you also have the Alberta Sheriffs which are largely highway patrol. But I do think Danielle Smith may have widened their powers to full peace officer status. It makes sense since it was a really dumb set up because the Sherrifs could pull a vehicle over. But if they discovered something criminal in nature such as say possession of narcotics, they could detain the occupants of the vehicle, but had to radio for Mounties (or municipal Police if in those communities) to come and actually execute the arrests. I am sure there is more to it from the Premier's end than simply this. My suspicion is she is looking at replacing the Mounties with the Sherrifs. Ostensibly because she doesn't want orders coming from Ottawa to interfere with Alberta. Here in Saskatchewan, Scott Moe is starting the Saskatchewan Marshall Service likely for the same reason. But with the incredibly high start up costs, unless somehow the Sask Party is reelected, the Marshall Service will only have existed on paper. I don't think they have anyone in place yet for it. So there is no Chief (or whatever title the head will have) or anything working for them yet. I also have no idea how he plans on hiring enough members to fill the void if he truly wants the Mounties out. I wouldn't be giving up my job, pension, benefits etc. from the RCMP to join a brand new Marshall Service that might not have any idea what they are doing.
lol toronto a different story
FYI, the red mounty suit is more of a ceremonial uniform than anything else (as are the actual mounted officers). Also, every major canadian city has its own police force. Ontario and Québec also have their own provincial police (Ontario Provincial Police (or OPP) and the Sureté du Québec (SQ). These provincial police corps has jurisdiction over highways, inter-police operations and generally assume regular police duties in less populated areas.
In all other provinces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police act as the de facto police force (except in some major cities, where they are able to fund their own forces within the city's budget).
It is not unusual to see cooperation between local police forces, SQ/OPP and/or RCMP, especially when they have to deal with major criminal organisations.
I think that the MAJOR difference is that american cops are equipped with more weapons and equipments and are proner to use coercitive force than canadian cops, while the latter are more inclined to go privilege preventive interventions rather than coercitive actions.
I think I can speak for most Americans when I say nobody cares. 🤣
@@mmc1730 It seems that there are people who care. By all means, be my guest and remain ignorant.
@@mmc1730 I think most american's know next to nothing about their neighbours to the north.
@@shalewarbringer7848 Being ignorant about something and not caring about that something are two separate things. It's not like your 5000 word comment contained pertinent or even interesting information.
@@mmc1730 These informations mayy not be of interest to you, but they appear to be pertinent in the comment section of a video that is SPECIFICALLY tring to help understand how the canadian police fare vs their american counterpart. By all means, just don't read it and let those who want to broaden their knowledge do so.
My daughter just started her police career. She has 3 degrees, including a Masters degree. The hiring process included a preliminary written test, a first interview, a psychological assessment, background checks and interviews with your immediate family and any significant others, provision of 9 letters of reference from an equal number of employment, community outreach, and character and personal contacts, a physical fitness test, a medical fitness test, a second interview, a hearing evaluation, a third interview, and a final interview with the Chief of Police, Director of Human Resources and the chair ofcthe Police Board. After being hired, you spend several weeks doing preliminary training, then go to Police College for 13 weeks. After graduation you go back to your detachment, then spend the next 3 months with your coach officer on the road. During that time, you are responsible for keeping up your own physical training and conditioning and they continue with regular firearms training. It's a really long process, and they really do their due diligence on selecting candidates. And she just turned 30
Where is that? Doesn’t seem the Montreal cops have that much training
@@katknox8250 in Ontario
@@elizabethfelet4743 My brother is a police officer in Ontario and doesn't have any University degree at all. It is not a pre-requisite but I am sure it will help your daughter go far in her career, congrats!!
There are issues of police brutality and police accountability here in Canada, but they don't seem to be as prevalent as they are in the US. Unfortunately, the general trend among Canadian police has been that they've been getting a little more like American police over recent decades, and there has also been a *VERY* long and dark history of the RCMP's relations to the indigenous community too. It's not all sunshine and roses, but looking at the situation in the US, it doesn't feel quite as bleak by comparison,
More boo hooing Indians
Canadian views are that we are more willing to find out what a problem is and where it lies, and change it.
American society barely changes.
Let corruption fester and everyone pays for it dearly.
Part of that is also that we have a 1/10th the population of the U.S. (actually we have roughly the population of California, but close enough). So there's just going to be less incidents as a whole. That said, I've been concerned about the militarization of our police, there is a level of escalation that's worrying. When I was young I had no fear of the cops, since then I have twice had them go for their firearms while talking to me, once after completing an instruction they gave me, and another time because me and my friends yelled to get another friend's attention at a park. The willingness of law enforcement to preemptively engage in aggressive action is something you just cannot get around when dealing with them now, and how stressful dealing with them is for an average citizen, let alone one with compromised social functions, cannot be overstated (I know two people who were arrested after calling the police to report a crime, neither of whom were later charged with anything or found to be committing any wrong other than being reportedly "difficult", one of whom was placed in fetters).
One of my brothers is indigenous (he's adopted), and the difference in how Police treat him when we've been together is stark, nearly cartoonish in it's obvious bias.
There's some stark issues in policing no matter where you go, and they seem to be getting worse as we go on. Not sure exactly how to solve them, but some kind of reform seems to be needed. (Possibly an expansion of the role of Social Workers, as a more on call role for things like reporting offences and conflict resolution.)
Especially in Ottawa on Parliament Hill last February when the Ottawa police officers abusing their power by being forceful upon peaceful protesters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. There was no need for so much police force in Ottawa to take care of 50 or 60 peaceful protesters who who were no threat to the the police force or even Justin Trudeau. When Justin Trudeau got rid of all the trucks from Ottawa and all the truckers with them, he expected everyone to be gone, and not have some protesters left behind carrying flags and signs saying F U Trudeau. And so Justin Trudeau had to have them removed by any means necessary and if that meant calling an emergency act on them, then so be it was his attitude.
Man cops in Canada are killers they smashed me off the road and beat me inducing a comatose and said I flew out the window. I seen my blood on my air bag and the hole side of my car smashed in. This same cop shot my friend dad because he had a cellphone. Said the red light was a beam from a gun he is dead cop never got fired until he stole gas from the city
Just for fun, you should try doing a movie reaction to "Bon Cop, Bad Cop". It's a buddy cop action comedy about an Ontario Provincial Police detective and a Sûreté du Québec detective who have to work together to solve a murder that literally straddled the border between the two provinces. The sequel is also good if not better.
Love that movie.
Hilarious movie
cmon on Bouchard we need to wait for a warren
bouchard: j'men calis xD
OMG that was SOOOO funny!!!
that would be so funny lol
Canadian police in remote rural areas need to use their mouth and diplomacy to stay safe. You can't arrest your way out of a crowd.
ya ...they are dealing with native and moose ...
I noticed one in a town of 400 did not carry a gun. When I asked what he would do if he saw someone stealing a TV out of a nearby home, he said "I would yell 'Billy - just wait until your Grandma hears about this" . . . remote policing at its finest!
@@michaelk5007 oh yeah. It's all about community and relationship in those small communities.
I live in an isolated community, and we generally love our RCMP officers. Some are tools, but most try to give back to the community by volunteering for something like coaching a school sport, liaising with students, and helping with community events. At present, our local detachment is led by a woman who is greatly respected and is seconded by a very tall officer (aka “Stretch”), both of whom like to hang out with the locals. Officers like these are gems. As each officer can only stay for 4 years (pout), we’ll lose these two in a couple of months. Their replacements will have big shoes to fill (pun intended, Stretch).
@@lizzyfolks9116 Neat, i live in semi-rural BC and my uncle was unlawfully dragged out, beaten, and thrown in jail over night because a higher up thought his kid was dating their daughter, also the same lady who informed us has been on video pulling over a car and killing the dog inside for no reason, i fondly remember the time my younger brother was dying of a blood sugar low, and the cops bravely started trying to find drugs and getting in the way of the actual help, and after finding nothing making snide comments and standing around uselessly, sure do love all the help they provide, especially when a man who had literally tried to commit a murder suicide on my grandmother tried to come back to our property and the police refused to get involved to help enforce the restraining order and we had to contact the RCMP headquarters and work with out of town policing to have anything done. I sure do love the perfectly uncorrupt not at all incompetent police officers i'm familiar with who definitely aren't racist and don't murder native folk whenever they get a chance.
Other side though i've never had any issues with the non-local RCMP, just hardworking honest folk as far as i can tell, and i've also met a few decent cops, and likely the local police are the issue, not the whole, but in my experience, the cops are absolutely a bad idea to call, just deal with whatever it is yourself, it'll be a lot safer that way.
If you ever get the chance to watch Due South, it was an iconic series in the 90s about a Chicago cop pairing with a Canadian Mountie. It aired for 4 seasons. It played a lot on stereotypes from both our countries. It's a very enjoyable series to binge watch, and still one of my favorite series to this day.
Tyler, you’re the most open minded American I’ve seen on UA-cam! Love that you want to learn about, not aboot, our culture and Canadians in general. There’s the Aylmer, Ontario Police College for all who wish to be an officer. 🇨🇦 🖖🏻
Or Depot
Aylmer, Ontario is the capital of Conservatism in Ontario. 'Enugh said.
@@mackwiz1 That may be so, but if you want to be a cop in Ontario, that’s where you’ve got to go. Doesn’t mean politics has to be involved or mentioned. Asked my BIL if he knew that political environment when he went to the cop college there. Wasn’t aware until I asked him moments ago … 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
My understanding of Canadian policing is that other than city police forces, Ontario and Quebec have provincial police forces, all other provinces and territories are policed by the R.C.M.P..
As a Canadian, i feel that the restricted access to firearms is a major component in the difference in the two countries. Here you have to pass certain tests in order to get a firearm and are very limited in how and where you may use the firearm.
In short, the only people that normally carry a weapon are the Police or the Army.
You are absolutely right on this.
This is very anecdotal but in the mid-80s, my Dad was a member of the Saskatoon Police and had made a pen pal out of a police officer from Oklahoma. The Oklahoman officer's in laws lived in North Dakota, so since Saskatoon is only a 5 hour drive north, my Dad invited him and his family to come visit. My Dad had to work during their visit and took the American with him as a ride a long one night. My Dad pulled over a car for some traffic offense, walked up to the car, spoke to the driver, came wrote up the ticket, gave to the driver and off the car went. My Dad's friend looked at him and said look at the courage on you. My Dad said what do you mean. His friend said if this was Oklahoma, I would have got on the loudspeaker demanded they get out of their car and lie facedown on the pavement, before I would approach them with my gun drawn. My Dad said for a traffic ticket? His friend said absolutely, if I had just done what you did I very likely could have had my head blown off since every vehicle in Oklahoma has a 12 gauge shotgun in it at the very least.
Like I said this is 40 years ago and very anecdotal, but hearing my Dad tell this story has always stuck in my mind the difference between policing in Canada and policing in the US. Obviously, this is probably not the case in every state and might just be an issue in Oklahoma or even just the area of Oklahoma my Dad's friend was from. I am sure Americans will read this and say no way. But it is the way my Dad remembers the conversation with his friend that night.
you also left out hunter
You also left out Natives
Gangs as well!!!
Canadian here! Just wanted to add that as an RCMP member they can expect to be transferred to another city (within their province) every 3-5 years. Usually they have a say in where you will go to some degree but need to be accommodating at some point so that they can get promotions. Typically they start out in smaller towns and eventually can get transferred back closer to their home town.
For the RCMP you can actually be transferred anywhere in the country you can one year be in PEI and three years later being British Columbia the way it works is you give them A lists of 10 places you would like to go and they do their best to get within your top 3 at least top 5
We get a lot of rookies posted to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L. They have to hit the ground running.
In Québec, you need a 3-year program to obtain a College diploma before going to the Quebec National Police Academy for 15 weeks (Living on site)
In reality, Canadian cops make WAY more than their American counterparts. Most Canadian cops make nearly 6 figures after 10 years, and they universally start much higher than $37,000 per year... I don't know where that stat came from, but RCMP start at $63,000 per year, while Toronto cops start at $70,000.
Canadian here. The only interaction I've had with American police is when my Mr. and I were near Seattle (small town) looking for a hotel late one night. We pulled over some cops to get visitor info. Ha Ha, they were helpful but after seeing this video I realze how strange it must have been for them.
Also Canadian here: I lived in NY for 3 years and my most memorable interaction with a cop was asking politely a heavily armed guy what was going on when they were deployed in Time Square. His answer was, and I quote, "f- off, kid."
My interaction with US police involves an $800 speeding ticket for doing highway speed in city and yet i was in the bush and no signs. so. ? Where was this city?
LOL Similar story here! I'm Canadian and one summer I traveled to California with a couple of friends and we were trying to locate my friend's Aunt and Uncle's house in L.A. We saw a police car so we pulled over to ask them for directions. From our experience in The Yukon Territory, we could approach RCMP freely for assistance.
The L.A. police were jumpy! They hopped out of their car and drew their guns! They gave us shit for how we approached them. Of course we raised our hands, apologized and explained, "Sorry! We are from The Yukon and we're lost...trying to find a relative's house."
Whew that was tense!
I am Canadian, I went with a friend to a Buffalo sabers game one night, parked in the parking garage, we wanted to smoke before going in so we leave, to find a bunch of cops to the left corner and just one on the right corner, while we decided we couldn't smoke here, so we figure down an ally right in front of us. But then if the cops seen, they would come looking, so I decided to.just ask the one cop where to go eat around before the game. I walked straight up to his car, (winter) window rolled up, I knocked, scared him, he rolls down the window, all I could small was whiskey, so i ask my question, one line he gives me sends me to a spot right where all the other cops are at. And rolled he's window back up, Well that won't work for our smoke, so we just walked back to the parking garage door and said screw it and smoked it right there, while we watched to cops on each side of us.
Fun night. Nothing happened to us
Also Canadian and my husband, myself and our two toddlers pulled up to a cop car in Corning, NY at about 2 a.m. to ask if he could recommend a safe place to stay. He looked confused and took us to the seediest place I 've ever been in and told us they only rarely got called there. That night someone was shot in the parking lot.
Depends where in Canada you live. Each province is different, but the average ranges from 60 to just over 100k a year
Canadian criminal lawyer here. The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is Canada's federal police service. That makes it the Canadian equivalent of the FBI with some notable differences - the main difference being that they will be regular everyday criminal law enforcers (and even provincial regulatory law enforcers) out in the boonies in ways the FBI just wouldn't operate. The scope of the FBI's policework is much more narrow and specialized.
Some provinces (Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland) have their own provincial police services. They typically operate in the parts of their provinces that don't have their own municipal service. For instance, in Toronto, it would be much more common to see an officer of the Toronto Police Service than it would be to see an officer of the Ontario Provincial Police. The work of these provincial constables tends to be more rural. Larger towns and cities throughout Canada tend to have their own municipal police services (e.g. the Vancouver Police Service). Counties and municipalities without their own municipal police services, or provincial police service, contract with the RCMP to enforce both federal criminal laws and provincial quasi-criminal laws (e.g. highway traffic stuff).
This makes the work of the RCMP largely rural and coastal. However, RCMP also specializes in large-scale criminal organizations, illicit drug imports, and gathering intelligence for national security. This work is usually done by highly trained, experienced, and specialized RCMP officers. There is also more overlap between municipal police and the RCMP in Ottawa, as the RCMP is charged with protecting national monuments in the National Capital Region.
Although iconic, the red coats and big-brimmed hats are historic and not in everyday use. Today this garb is worn for more ceremonial occasions (e.g. police funerals or escorting visiting heads of state). On their everyday patrol, they wear grey and blue uniforms. Also iconic but out of date is the perceived ubiquity of horses. Though they are still called "mounties", very few RCMP officers are still mountED. When Canada gained independence in 1867, the automobile had yet to be invented and the frontier was very much untamed. Horses were vital for traversing mountains and the open plains. Now, when you see them on patrol, they'll probably just look like regular cops in regular police cruisers doing regular police work.
In Canada, there are 3 types of police officers. Municipal (cities), provincial and federal police. In the West, there are a lot of federal police, but almost none in Quebec.
There’s nothing typical about an American wanting to know more about Canada.. sadly! Always good to hear about your discoveries! 😊
Alright, to clear this up for you.... MOST places in Canada are covered by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the "Mounties") as the standard police force. It's only in larger municipal areas like Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, etc where you will find a municipal police force which is far more similar to the American style of policing. All of the smaller cities and towns have RCMP detachments where the majority of community policing is done. Also to clear things up, no they do NOT wear the fancy red uniforms all the time. Those are considered to be dress or special occasion uniforms and are not worn on day-to-day operations. I have a fairly high degree in knowledge of this as my parents were both career RCMP officers and I have seen all of this first hand.
The RCMP ("mounties") are basically THE federal level police in Canada, like US Federal Marshals, ATF, DEA, and FBI all rolled into one. Some provinces have provincial police that are like state police in the US and cover highways and rural areas too sparsely populated to have their own dedicated police, but in the provinces that don't have provincial police the RCMP also fills this role as well. Then we also have municipal police forces for each city and larger town, pretty much the same as the US has.
All provinces and territories in Canada rely on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for police services except for Quebec and Ontario. Quebec has its own provincial police force, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), while Ontario utilizes the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Similar to the United States, Canada also has municipal police services that operate in urban centers.
The Mounties provide two functions in Canada.
The first as others have mentioned is that they provide on-the-ground police services for those areas of the country that do not provide local police functioning very much like state police in the USA. Only Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador have provincial police so the RCMP are not required to provide this function. This is also true for cities and towns that do not have a municipal police service.
The second is that they have jurisdiction over federal cases so in this way they operate as the FBI does in the US.
NL does not have Provincial police. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary work in the capital but can enforce laws throughout the Province. Normally the RCMP police the Province outside of the capital.
RCMP are not required? Québec here, we have the RCMP and sometimes they're required, knowing that the Québec Provincial Police is more small than the RCMP C Division.
Also, their red uniforms are for parade and formal duties like escorting the prime minister or being in an event with heads of state of other countries. If they're doing regular duties like patrolling or filling form in their office, they're dress like in the picture you saw on the google image search.
The fact that they tend to operate in rural areas is the origin of a joke about their uniforms
On the shoulder patch on their uniforms, it says "RCMP" and "GRC". These mean "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" and "Gendarmerie royale du Canada"
But the joke is that they actually stand for "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" and "Gravel Road Cop"
I would like to add that Newfoundland and Labrador as far as I'm aware still have the RCMP help police some places
I considered becoming a police officer in Toronto but after talking to a few about their job decided not to. Hearing “no one is happy to see you”, “every day you are part of the worst day in a person’s life” and imagining how seeing people at their very worst all the time would change me, was what made me decide to pass on this hat career path.
When an officer is part of the worst day of a person's life, it's often because they're bringing bad news about a loved one in a traffic accident.
I imagine the larger the city, the narrower the differences are between USA police and Canadian police as per this video. Toronto being our country's largest city... yeah, I can see it being the most stressful place to be a cop that we have.
The Mountie uniform is more of a parade uniform, usually used for formal or flashy events. The day to day uniform is more in line with what you are familiar with.
In the province of Quebec you have to do 3 years of college + 15 weeks at the police academy
Here in Quebec, you need to do 2 or 3 years of college in "Techniques Policières" or Police Techniques , to learn the Laws, their applications and how to enforce them. Then, you have to receive a hiring promise from a Police service from either a Municipal service, the Provincial Police , the First Nations Peacekeepers, or even the Canadian National Police (Wich is the only private police service in Canada, to protect the infrastructures of the Canadian National Railway Systems), to be accepted into the National Police Institute, where you'll serve for close to 6 months in the city of Nicolet as the police service in tandem with certified instructors , to learn the best way to apply the Laws you're going to sworn to uphold, and most importantly, how to interact cordially with the public, who are going to pay your salary through their taxes, and you will swore to protect! That is also a HUGE DIFFERENCE from how Americans can become police officers.
In Canada, cities have their own police services. In some provinces (other than Ontario and Quebec) provincial services are contracted with federal police (RCMP), as commented below. In general, RCMP, like FBI and FSB, handle federal matters like drug smuggling and assassination threats. ``Mounted' ' part of the name carries over from past centuries (welcoming of rebel refugee Sitting Bull and tribe). Now they drive white cars with fancy detailing. USA population is 10 times Canada's so 10 times police and highway speeds are more relaxed, due to less congestion.
I love your shows! There's an old Canadian comedy called Corner Gas that have 2 rural RCMP officers and the exaggerated level of crime in rural Canada they deal with. LOL
Oh I hate that show. lol.
They aren't RCMP, Brent Butt made that clear, but, they have called in the RCMP for help, as in the Crop circles episode
@@futurejameslove Greatest Canadian comedy show EVER!!
@@shoknifeman2mikado135 to each their own. lol. workin moms is pretty funny.
Dog River's biggest crime was when Oscar ripped up his parking ticket.
rcmp are a national police force, some provinces have provincial police, then there are city cops followed by by-law officers and finally you have department of HI ways (usually concerned with commercial trucks)
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are “mounted” because the service started as the North West Mounted Police which did exactly what the name suggests. They were a paramilitary force with horses patrolling the wild North West Territories. Over time the NWMP role expanded to cover the whole country and the name updated to RCMP. You can still see the RCMP wear Red Serge when they graduate from RCMP Training, at certain official events, (like when the Major and Council official photo is taken in my city), when they ride in the Musical Ride, at a police funeral etc. For example, four RCMP in Red Serge mounted (on Canadian RCMp horses previously gifted to the Queen) rode at the front of the procession ahead of her coffin during the funeral because of the special relationship between the RCMP and the Queen. They carry the name “Royal” and donate horses to the Queen. The Queen’s favorite horse was an RCMP horse for many years for example.
There was a good TV show on years ago, called Due South. It paired an RCMP officer with an American cop stationed in America. it was a good show. When I was a young girl my Mom ran a boarding house and we had 2 RCMP officers living with us . My Mom was single at the time and was a waitress at the restaurant next door to the RCMP headquarters in Calgary , Alberta and the officers often ate lunch at the restaurant. They were just the nicest guys, Neil Burrows was one and the other fellows name was Scotty but I can't recall his last name. We had the safest house in the neighborhood lol
Canadian police services aren't entirely without prejudice. There is a higher percentage of Indigenous people in prison than white people. Also, a stat circulated that Toronto police were more likely to use violence in an incident involving black people than white people. No, we haven't had any infamous acts of violence between police and visible minorities but our police services are not without prejudice and need for improvement.
I find that people in Canada are too compliant because we look to our neighbors to the south and see how much better we are in terms of racial bias. Being better than Americans in that regard is not a high enough bar for us to hold ourselves to. We need to do better.
Are you suggesting that we need equal representation by race in prisons ? Wouldn’t prison demographics be proportional to criminality of the individual persons in a given population?
@@eswing2153 but that's not how it works. They give harsher punishments to non-whites. They convict them on less evidence and they stop and search them more than 10x more. Conviction rates and crime rates are very different things.
There have been occasional noteworthy cases of excessive violence (in scale and frequency) towards the black communities in Toronto, Montreal and to a lesser degree Ottawa and I think Halifax and those communities have long complained that they get harsher and more hostile treatment. That said, the scale of the issue is nothing like it is in the US and more closely resembles the kind of police prejudices you might see in Europe. We don’t have the same history or demographics when it comes to our black population (most black Canadians are of fairly recent Caribbean or African immigrant roots).
The treatment of indigenous peoples by the RCMP and the justice system in general over the years is a national embarrassment.
Mounties are the Canadian police. But some cities do have their own city police, some of our other police are:
Municipal enforcement
OPP
Public safety officer
Peace officers.
But we don't have a general police force other than RCMP.
As others have said we have issues with the cops in Canada. Canadian police draw their weapons far less frequently which is likely why fewer people are shot. Also for the OPP anyway high speed chases are not really a thing bc of the danger to the public. (This has been told to me by a friend who is OPP). First responders up here have a higher than average suicide rate as well sadly. Support is improving but not nearly fast enough.
As a Canadian, I love your videos. Thank you for taking such an interest in your neighbor. I especially love your city ones.
FYI in Canada it’s spelled neighbour.
@@greggarsenault4457 Use US spelling when on the 'net, easier to remain incognito.
the mounties are the federal police force. Basically the FBI of Canada, but they also act as local and provincial(state) police in most of the country. Their red uniform is their ceremonial one. But normally they have normal police officer uniform.
In Quebec, the police officers have to do a mandatory 3 year police program with severe physical requirements, then have to do an intensitve 3-4 month academy. So the full process is 3 years and a half, the screenings and evaluations are constant.
Not sure of the exact specifications for OPP, but I believe they have to do a college course in police foundations (like a 2-3year community college diploma) while some do University (bachelor's) degrees for later career advancement. Then they also undergo training at the OPP college after being hired, then possibly train further there for career advancement throughout their career. This video is very misleading in a few areas, it seems to me.
also don't forget we have 10th of the population of the States....but I think our cops still suffer a lot of PTSD on and off the job.....it comes with the territory on both sides of the border...
My cousin's husband is a retired RCMP officer in Saskatchewan. He wasn't really out on the highways or in direct contact with criminals in the later stage of his career, though. He taught classes at the academy.
In Canada there's 3 levels of police services. The first is federal and accomplish by the R.C.M.P. ( the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ) and they have normal uniforms, the red ones are for ceremonies, caroussels, and others fancies stuffs. The second level is provincial, in Quebec it's the Sûreté du Québec ( Ontario is O.P.P., Ontario provincial police ). They cover all the territory of the province not cover by an other servive. The third level is municipal, city cops. In Quebec, the police works is teach in a 3 years course in a CEGEP ( equivalent to 1 year of college and two of university in U.S.A. ) with a special training in Nicolet.
The Mounties/Royal Canadian Mounted Police are a Federal police force. The red uniform is a formal dress. Although not directly connected anymore, CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) FBI/CIA equivalent, have been separate from the RCMP since 1984. The RCMP are provincial police outside of metro areas. You're likely to find them at the boarder between US/Canada, the Territories, and the large spaces in-between.
Im surprised that no one has commented on the dwindling trust we have with the police. After the trucker protest in Ottawa. Most people in ontario have more distrust in the police. Mostly do to the misinformation from the media and the bad decisions of the government. We are seeing more RCMP political issues. Mostly around the prime Minister and other mps. For reference i did go to college for law enforcement. I also completed the RCMP aptitude and psychology exam. I have family and friends on police forces. I have respect for the job and the people that do it. Which in turn causes me eminence distain for "bad cops" love your videos.
You are very typical of Americans I know. Kind, understanding, and empathetic. The reputation your citizens have is unfair, as it really has been earned by the minority of your countrymen. I’m glad you’re finding success with your Canadian content. If you ever visit us in the Great White North, you’ll have no shortage of places to stay!
The red uniform that the RCMP uses is for formal purposes such as the musical ride, embassy guards etc, the regular RCMP officers wear a more normal type uniform. Also as a Federal Force they do the jobs of the State police in the States
Canadians, in general, have developed trusting relationships with cops, however, racism is often ignored in videos about Canada despite its role in our society.
When they talked about police killing citizens, you would find that the vast majority of those shot by police were non-white individuals, usually being Indigenous (native), and not necessarily acting in such a way as to expect to be shot.
This guy's voice is the American equivalent of Christa Frieland's, "Mr. Speeeeaker."
In Ontario we have provincial police (OPP). But other than here and Quebec I believe all other provinces and territories contract the rcmp for provincial police services. The rcmp is also comparable to the FBI when it comes to important investigations and federal operations.
(The Mounties only wear red ceremonially but usually just have your typical police uniform. And not all of them ride horses.)
Newfoundland and Labrador also have the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary as their provincial police.
@@Phazon8058MS cool, never heard of that.
@@JarJars_Bathwater Right?
Awesome answer, was basically about to comment the same thing!
Very interesting! Thanks for the clarification.
You wouldn't want a Canadian trained police officer in the the states because the police have to be more like soilders due to the level of violence; that's why they use so many military terms like higway "patrol" or police "force" state "trooper"
I love your videos on Canadian /American topics..keep up the good work ..from a Canadian
I have a friend who just got hired by a local police force. She has a masters degree, worked in social services and is in extremely good shape. We also have an independent investigations office in British Columbia that looks into any shooting/death by a police officer for additional police oversight.
I have a BIL that's a municipal cop, and an ex that tried to be a cop. It's tough to be accepted for training here. You shouldn't even bother to apply unless you have minimum 2 year community college degree, and preferably a 4-year degree. In addition to the physical challenges, there are very in-depth psychological evaluations. Even I got interviewed when my ex applied because family support was part of the profile they build for each candidate. And they make way more than stated here. At their highest earning bracket, they make low 6-figures.
Are you in Canada or in the US?
I have lived 50yrs in BC and Alberta, and everyone I know trusts and respects both Federal RCMP and city police, 90% of the time. (There have been some bad interactions as well.)
12:00 exactly! Our criminal code is federal so all the laws regarding that are the same. Provinces and cities have municipal bylaws for things like dogs, parking etc... It does make it a lot easier and it also means an officer can easily work in any detachment and sometimes in training they do get sent to work places. But from what I've seen, most officers don't "hit the streets" until they're a little older.
Correction needed here: annual salary for a policeman or women in Canada is 48 386 $ (as of april 1st 2021 and after 60 months is 84 366 $. There is a raise every six months after 4 years. The average is 45 to 46$ / hour. Tickets fines are part of the city budget or the province. So police service is not all paid for by taxes. City adiministrators factor in ticket fines in their yearly budget.
RCMP training also involves spending time outside in our freezing cold weather and being pepper sprayed amongst other things. There is a video on RCMP training you might like.
yep the one thing that Police and RCMP can have, and no one can have at all. the pepper spray can be bear spray when hunting. but can not be use on people or i think jail time mite be calling.
Another big difference between US and Canada police is the training. In Canada every province has their own police academy. So whatever service you join, youll start at the Provincial police academy, then you'll go to your services academy. Then you'll have you probationary period on the road
Community Policing and de-escalation is really emphasized in Police training in Canada. However, not sure how comparable it is to the US.
I recently found out that the RCMP is actually a paramilitary force. Their initial training is more military style than that of other police forces at the municipal and provincial level.
I'm a Dutch Canadian now living in New Zealand. I've never had a desire to live in the USA or even visit but I enjoy your relaxed take on comparing Canada to the US. I was expecting this video to be more dramatic and the differences to be greater than what they are.
there are also municipalities that don’t have RCMP and contract their own police services like Vancouver, BC
1:54-2:02 had me howling. 🤣
Even as I was listening to it I was like “My gawd… talk about a harsh description of the States!” And the look on your face… I was dying 😆
I live in a small town which has many RCMP police. I had to call them when I was locked out by my disabled husband. The police officer climbed on my deck and opened the door for me, after checking on my husband. Very gracious men and am glad they are here.
When you think of Canadian Police do you think of ... Dudley Do Right ... Rocky and Bullwinkle ... horses?
When you think of U.S. Police do you think of ... Sylvester Stallone ... in an armoured personnel carrier ... with ammo belts slung over his shoulders?
Yup, that's the difference between Canadian Police and American Police.
Idk where these people are getting their information from, here in America u can’t apply to be a cop until you’re 20 and have to be 21 by the time u graduate the academy so there’s no cops out here under 21. Also, my local police force pays their probation officers $42,000 and after 1 year when they leave probation they are payed about $65,000 already. And getting pulled over in my city is so rare because my city has pretty high crime rates so the cops are more focused on big time crimes but you will see the usual pig body cop sitting on the side of the road(rare but not impossible).
Canadian here. The RCMP (Mounties) are the police force in many provinces smaller towns and cities and in the rural areas except for Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland/Labrador which have their own provincial police. In the larger cities all across Canada, most of them have their own municipal police services. Also, as others have noted, the red serge RCMP uniform is a ceremonial uniform only. The day to day uniform is quite different.
I'm Canadian and live literally 5 minutes from F Division of the RCMP, aka Depot, the training academy for every officer. They have definite standards and qualifications they look for in recruits.
My Dad and Uncle were in the RCMP, he left training in 58' and stayed in the first city he was transfered to, he did the musical ride, played on the RCMP football team, was had several jobs during his service and often was on " special duties, like guarding a dignitary on occassion.. never got transferred. My Uncle was transferred to several places before he had a petmanent post.
This video had several things wrong. In terms of wages, Canadian police officers are paid significantly more than most American police. Starting wages is a horrible indicator. In Canada, all police services Federal, Provincial, or City, typically stay within 10-15% of each other, and as of 2022, typically make around $100,000 to 110,000 per year. No matter where you work. Where as, in the USA, people often have to start off in lower paying communities with small tax base (and higher crime rates) and then try to get hired with a higher paying police force once they get experience. Police officers will often switch police forces several times to make a better wage. In Canada, police officers tend to stay with the same service for their entire 30 year career; although they can apply to different police services, it would be to relocate, and not for the paycheque. Because of this, most police officers have either a college or university degrees, as a lot more educated people are competing to get hired as a police officer.
Finally, Canada doesn’t have elected Sheriffs or Chiefs. You need to be promoted and work your way up the ranks. This way, you don’t get a “new Sheriff in town” mentality, where they can hire their high school buddies, and family members.
Small/Rural towns and highways between towns in Canada are policed by either Federal (RCMP) or Provincial police (OPP in Ontario, or Sûreté du Québec in Quebéc), where municipal/city police take care of their own respective cities. RCMP will often have very small detachments in cities they don’t actively police in, and will assist or liase with municipal police for international or cross province crimes. Kind of like a happy version of the FBI, but more hands off, and will only assist if requested or required.
I grew up in rural Canada, on the prairies and the “Mounties” were our main police force backed by local town/ city police in the towns. They are still a very large presence in our area.
The RCMP uniforms they are showing are ceremonial. The difference between the RCMP and a city ‘s local police force typically is just the crest and the stripe colour on their pants.
I think a Major difference is the attitude towards the general public. Even in the big cities in Canada the police in general have a helpful, community mindset. Sure we still have some bad, power tripping cops but I think far less than the USA. There is a guy on youtube (don't remember the name) who ships a rare super car from Dubai around the world to drive in different countries and he has a video comparing his interactions with Canadian and American police..... the way each countries police approach and interact with him is Very telling..
In 2022 there were 1096 deaths caused by the police in the USA, while in Canada there were 69.
To become a police officer, every Province is different. Generally larger cities have their own Police departments, rural communities have the RCMP and some Reserves have their own Tribal Police. Some cities require Criminal Law and Officer Safety Exams, physical fitness testing, interviews, polygraph testing, psychological testing, medical exams, background investigations, and approval by a selection committee. Also, an applicant must be a Canadian citizen, fluent in English or French, meet vision and hearing standards. In some jurisdictions it is beneficial to have a University degree and a history of volunteerism.
Your videos are fantastic! I like the open mindedness and love of learning you share with the world. I see a lot of Canadian's comments and wonder if your audience is mostly Canadian? Which is really awesome and kinda funny when you think about it.
I'm Norwegian x French, have lived in several other countries including the US, currently Canada - and frankly, this goon drives me nuts with his level of ignorance and laughing at things non-US.
I've tried blocking his account, but it still gets shoved in my face 🤬
Honestly I have nothing negative to say about the police in Canada (from personal experience). In the North on Ontario (maybe it's different in other regions), they have always been super kind hearted people who leave positive impacts on the communities they work in. They care so much and it's great to see. When I see how badly USA citizens distrust their police, it's shocking since where I live the police has always been what I would consider safe people. It does help that living in smaller cities (populations of under 50,000) you most likely personally know some, if not most, of the officers, but I would still trust officers in a major city like Toronto. Even any form of security or guard in high traffic areas bring comfort and safety, and I am never scared to ask them for help (and I always know that they are willing and able to help in any way they can). They are just great and I feel safe around them which I know sadly can't be said by everyone and especially not by a vast majority of people in the USA or in some other countries.
Great video. A buddy and I got busted for under age drinking and smoking weed in high school. When he said dump the liquor we poured it out on his pants and boots by accident, for real. He just said beat it and I dont want to run into you guys again. Canadian cops want to help for the most part. I'm positive he could have ran us in for something, but let us go because it would ha e ruined 2 teenagers life forever.
Just to address your perception of the Mounties, they are not a specialized force per se. They do do some specialized things like protection for the Prime Minister or the Royals. But they also do municipal policing in a lot of areas. In rural Western Canada, they are the local police. Most major cities have their own police services, but the Mounties do serve parts of Greater Vancouver. In Ontario and Quebec they don't do local policing because of provincial police services. As far as the red serge, that is the Mounties' tunics. In their normal day to day policing they wear tan uniform shirts, dark pants with a yellow stripe down them and a yellow staff cap. They also wear the requisite bullet proof vests and carry the same sort of equipment in the same sort of belts as Americans do.
Most Municipal police services wear a similar uniform, though most wear navy blue shirts like the LAPD with dark pants with a red or blue stripe and a staff cap. There are a few transit police that wear the stetson that the Mounties wear with their serges, but that isn't typical in Canada, as you will see with some State Troopers in the US.
But by and large if you put an American municipal officer and a Canadian municipal officer side by side, their uniforms would look very similar.
As the video said, policing in Canada is community based. Cities and towns are responsible for policing, and if they don't have the resources to field a police services, they will contract either the RCMP or in Ontario and Quebec the provincial police. On top of community policing, the OPP and SQ do highway enforcement and other specially enforcement activities. The RCMP also act as a Federal police like the FBI do in the US. They also perform services similarly to the Secret Services, providing security for the Canadian Parliament and the office of the Governor General.
I'm sure someone has already pointed this out, but, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the Mounties) is the Canadian police service. Although there are independent provincial and city police services.
A good friend is a local cop in Ontario, has been for a few years. He makes $90k+OT and everyone he trained with were built like athletes and all highly educated. There is a college policing program, and even with that a university undergrad might be needed to set you apart from other applicants.
I think with the average salaries in this video it may take into account all the admin and non actual police officer type staff employed by a department.
Also the amount of investigatory and follow up work he does that TV shows make you think detectives do is surprising. It's also why cops don't have time to care that your neighbour put their garbage bag on your side of the curb or other dumb shit.
He also will carry an overdose dead body out of an apartment where he also just carried a 6 year old kid out that had been surviving for days on their own with their dead parent and then be expected to just go back to work. Or a gun shot suicide. And narcans an OD at least once per shift rotation and half the time the person literally comes back to life and bitches he ruined their high then tries to fight him.
So next time you're doing 80k in a school zone and decide to be a dick to the cop that justifiably pulled you over, remember they may have handled a bloated dead body that morning and really don't want to be dealing with your shit.
Bro, all y’all who don’t know what what that red uniform is it is a mountain uniform, but you would normally see that uniform worn by a lot of the Canadian police in ceremonies that is their ceremonial uniform
As a Canadian I enjoyed this comparison and learned what it might in America
The 'Red Surge' uniforms were the original back in the 1800's or beyond. The force was known as the 'Royal Canadian Mounted Police or 'Mounties' for short. The Serge is ceremonial.
Originally they were called the Northwest Mounted Police
They really didnt go into the RCMPs training regiment, its pretty in depth and to me seems closer to military training. For example the big one that is often the cutoff for many is the exposure training, where they have to endure exposure to various gasses and sprays like mace, teargas etc. for a prolonged period.
This video is pretty flawed in that most of the time its comparing the average US municipal LEO to the Canadian RCMP which while only loosely is like our equivalent to the US' FBI.
What u were seeing in the video is the RCMP in red surge which is their dress uniform. They also have blues but all cops have a set of red serge as a dress uniform they don’t use their dress uniform on a day-to-day basis
Toronto, Cdn police profile here too. More police applicants now, have college courses. Ours must stay in shape, and none are militarized. RCMP is our national police like the FBI. Langley like training is available there. Hope that provides a little more info.
Canada has regular police and also Royal Canadian mounted police.Mounties have a work uniform similar to other police. The red uniforms are their dress uniforms which are usually worn in parades or special events. Also they are usually only on horses during special events or parades. Other times they use vehicles like everyone else.
I'm Canadian, living in Montreal. One thing to remember is that Canada has only 10% of the US's population. So that 1000 a year killed by cops, would only be 100, or our 15 would be 150, but still quite a difference. I would also love for you to react to Cops From Around the World react to US policing. You should enjoy that one too!!
It's very rare to see a Canadian police officer on the beat who is under 26. With college courses, training requirements and a typical requirements for additional life experience, Canadian police forces, including the RCMP, aren't accepting trainees in under age 25. Each large city in Canada has their own police force, and there are a few provincial police forces, such as the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police), Alberta Sheriffs and the QPP (Quebec Provincial Police). The RCMP are a federally operated police force, which does a number of things, but they also provide law enforcement for smaller communities that otherwise wouldn't be able to afford setting up a local police force.
One of the huge differences, though, is that most cops in Canada don't have to treat every single call as a possible firearms situation, because there are so few firearms in Canada. This greatly reduces the stress of dealing with traffic stops, domestic issues, and other general misdemeanors.
I have a friend that retired out of the OPP at 52. He was making over $100g a year for his last decade.
Mounties are the basic police here in Canada they are referred to here as RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) with that said some cities here in Canada have their own Police force that work in that cities limits or boundary cities that have this type of police for example is Vancouver BC the police force there is called Vancouver Police the wraps on the police vehicles are different from the slandered RCMP's white with blue, red, and Yellow strips if the police unit is a city unit that unit has a different vehicle appearance just as in the USA each region has it's own style. And as @clarissathompson mentioned the Mounties red uniform is a ceremonial uniform not the standard uniform so in other words the red uniform is the RCMP's Dress uniform.
You are confusing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which is the federal police (think FBI) were as some provinces have a provincial police forces but most municipalities will have their own police force.
The provinces that do not have their own provincial police force, sub-contract the RCMP to act as the provincial police.
The advantage of using the RCMP is that staffing for a location can be chosen from anywhere across Canada as they all go through the exact same training.
The local police departments will hire from the local population first.
Mounties is the non official name for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is the federal and national law enforcement agency of Canada. The term "mounted" refers to their history of being trained to carry out their duties while mounted on horseback. Although the RCMP primarily uses modern vehicles today, their horseback heritage is still a significant part of their identity, often showcased in ceremonial duties and public demonstrations.
I'm Canadian, and mostly from rural areas on the east coast. I'm not super familiar with the training required for provincial/city police but I do know they have to go to a police academy. On the other hand, the RCMP don't need that, but they have a pretty intense boot camp in Regina that they attend. Fun fact, correctional officers go to the same camp. I have family who work in both fields, and they all lost significant weight during the boot camp.
The RCMP which is a Federal police service and they provide police services to all areas in Canada if the municipality doesn’t have one of the following two police forces. The RCMP also assists the other forces with large or cross country cases. Ontario has its own Provincial police force, and some large Canadian cities will have their own Municipal police force. The red RCMP “serge” is the formal dress for special ceremonial occasions, otherwise the officers wear their blue, gray with yellow stripes on their trousers uniforms. Residents in most Canadian towns, and rural areas (exception Ontario) will rely on the RCMP as their police service, but there are RCMP offices in all large centres even if they have a Provincial or Municipal force . It should be noted that the RCMP rotates their officers around the country every 4 to 5 years. I hope this helps.