SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Royal Irish Constabulary, North-West Mounted Police, Royal Newfoundland Constabulary

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie A.Howells

Document Summary

The struggle is real for police trying to balance enforcing the law and respecting the rights of the individuals they encounter. Mission creep: occurs when organization take on more duties then were originally envisioned by the founders of those agencies. All provinces have jurisdiction over their police, in ontario we have the police services act. Police are responsible to keep people safe while sticking to the charter. Front line officers: officers who occupy front line policing positions (eg. up to the rank of sargent) do not have executive authority. Stand-alone police services: police services that are typically small and are not part of a larger police organization. The first nations people1 had their own government and crime punishment before europe arrived. Oldest police were the royal newfoundland constabulary2 york which later became toronto also had old police service. The store we know as the bay was also able to enforce the law.