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Under the authority of the Peace Officer Act, Alberta Sheriffs are provincial peace officers with jurisdiction over the province of Alberta. The premier of Alberta has the authority to grant emergency police powers to all Alberta sheriffs during major emergencies within the province. The Alberta Sheriffs Branch is the largest sheriff service in ...
February 11, 2018: In the early hours of February 11th, Jamiel Moore-Williams was arrested by Vancouver police officers for alleged jaywalking and obstruction of justice violations. Video captured by bystanders shows several police officers forcing Moore-Williams to the ground, who he alleges proceeded to kick him in his head and body while ...
In February 2022, four Canadian men were arrested on allegations that they conspired to kill Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. The arrests occurred during the Canada convoy protest on the Coutts, Alberta, side of the Sweetgrass–Coutts Border Crossing. According to police, the plot was part of a wider plan to alter "Canada's ...
[1] [2] In 2018, The CBC published "Deadly Force", an investigative report described as "the first country-wide database of every person who died or was killed during a police intervention", which documented 461 fatal police encounters in Canada between 2000 and 2017, suggesting the average is closer to 26 people a year.
The sheriff of Richmond County, Georgia, is trying to figure out why there have been so many officers charged with crimes — and how to curb the misconduct. 33 officer arrests in 3 years: Sheriff ...
Quebec City police officers preparing for the city's Saint Patrick's Day parade in 2014. Police services in Canada are responsible for the maintenance of the King's peace through emergency response to and intervention against violence; investigations into criminal offences and the enforcement of criminal law; and the enforcement of some civil law, such as traffic violations. [3]
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said a burglary suspect disguised as a firefighter, as police arrested about 29 for looting and other criminal activity.
The W. R. Myers High School shooting occurred on April 28, 1999, at W. R. Myers High School in Taber, Alberta, Canada.The gunman, 14-year-old school dropout Todd Cameron Smith, entered the school and began firing at students in a hallway, then went to the central hub of the school in front of the band room, killed one student and wounded another.