) (too much helium) ) and say: "resistance is futile. You will be assimilated" (insert electric cattle prod. Ouch!".With a volley of Photon torpedoes we all say "hell no", and twice on Sundays
With all due respect, not a fair comment. It is a force of some 27,000 with "all manner and condition on men and women" like rest if our society there are saints and angels and sheepdogs as Lt Col Dave Grossman would say and then there is everything in between including bullies, rascals and horse-thieves. The simple fact if the matter is that the reason our country works and the RCMP and bureaucracy works (for the most part, really!) is that the decent dedicated people outweigh the "forces of darkness" - exponentially. I'm waiting for a Borg Cube to come zooming in any time soon and with "a little squeaky voice"
The forces of light in the RCMP simply have to push back against the bullies and forces of darkness, not only for our benefit, but also so the RCMP will not be dragged into the gutter. Its basic law enforcement really and clearly "for the good of the force"
The Nine Peelian Principles of Policing are as follows. Please feel free to comment
The nine principles were as follows:
To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary, of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.
With all due respect, not a fair comment. It is a force of some 27,000 with "all manner and condition on men and women" like rest if our society there are saints and angels and sheepdogs as Lt Col Dave Grossman would say and then there is everything in between including bullies, rascals and horse-thieves. The simple fact if the matter is that the reason our country works and the RCMP and bureaucracy works (for the most part, really!) is that the decent dedicated people outweigh the "forces of darkness" - exponentially. I'm waiting for a Borg Cube to come zooming in any time soon and with "a little squeaky voice"
The forces of light in the RCMP simply have to push back against the bullies and forces of darkness, not only for our benefit, but also so the RCMP will not be dragged into the gutter. Its basic law enforcement really and clearly "for the good of the force"
The Nine Peelian Principles of Policing are as follows. Please feel free to comment
The nine principles were as follows:
To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary, of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.
