RCMP Security Service
The RCMP Security Service (
History
The RCMP carried out extensive security service work since the force was reconstituted in 1920, when it merged with the
In 1950, the RCMP's Special Branch was formally established to conduct its counterintelligence operations.[4] Prior to that, the branch was a component of the RCMP's Criminal Investigation Branch, where political security operations and criminal investigations were not distinct before 1936. The first Special Branch class was held in 1953.[5]
In 1962, the branch was renamed the Directorate of Security and Intelligence, and in 1970, it became the RCMP Security Service.[4] During the 1960s, it targeted Quebec nationalists, particularly the militant Front de libération du Québec (FLQ).[6]
As a result of illegal tactics, including illegal surveillance and
References
- ^ "The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS): Past and Present". 15 March 2019.
- ^ Steven Roy Hewitt (1997). "Old Myths Die Hard: The Transformation of the Mounted Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914–1939" (PDF). PhD thesis. University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 2007-01-13.
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- ^ a b "RCMP: A Brief History". CBC. 22 June 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-04-21. Retrieved 2007-01-13.
- ^ "RCMP Special Branch Lectures · RCMP Special Branch Lectures · Canada Declassified".
- ^ "The story of how Canadian police committed arson to stop a Black Panther meeting". 30 June 2017.
- ^ "Origins of SIRC - SIRC". December 2003.
- ^ "Arar case raises ghost of past RCMP follies on security front". Archived from the original on 2007-05-19.
- ^ "Consolidated federal laws of Canada, Security Offences Act". 4 April 2005.