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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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The Resume

    (May 23, 1873- )
    Born in Canada
    Originally established as the Northwest Mounted Police
    Federal police force of Canada
    24,578 personnel (2007)
    Responsibilities include enforcing federal laws, serving as the police force of Canada's three territories, providing protection for government officials and visiting dignitaries and domestic security and counterterrorism
    Known in French as Gendarmerie Royale du Canada
    Nicknamed 'Mounties'

Why they might be annoying:

    They killed two people and injured thirty by firing into a crowd while suppressing a strike in Winnipeg (1919).
    They created a 'fruit machine' to ferret out homosexuals in the force during the Cold War.
    The McDonald Commission found that they had stolen documents from the Parti Quebecois, illegally opened mail and conducted illegal electronic surveillance (1981).
    They provide training for the Haitian National Police, which has been accused of widespread human rights abuses.
    Except on ceremonial occasions, they neither ride horses nor wear their famed red uniforms.

Why they might not be annoying:

    They helped suppress the North-West Rebellion led by Louis Riel (1885).
    King Edward VII granted them Royal status (1904) to honor their service in South Africa during the Boer War.
    They took part in peacekeeping missions in Haiti, Namibia, Kosovo and East Timor.
    They maintain a database of 3.5 million criminal records.
    They are an enduring symbol of Canadian culture.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 34 Votes: 32.35% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 10.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 39 Votes: 10.26% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 25 Votes: 28.00% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 57 Votes: 43.86% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 26 Votes: 34.62% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 168 Votes: 40.48% Annoying