- Source: Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (French: commissaire de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada) is the professional head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The commissioner exercises control and management of the RCMP under the direction of the minister of public safety. The position is a Governor in Council appointment made on the advice of the prime minister of Canada.
In addition to his or her role in the management of the RCMP, the commissioner serves as Principal Commander of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces. Under the Firearms Act, the RCMP commissioner also serves as the commissioner of firearms, the chief executive of the Canadian Firearms Program.
Michael Duheme is the 25th commissioner of the RCMP, having taken office in an interim capacity on March 17, 2023, and permanently as of the Change Command ceremony held on May 25, 2023.
Queen Elizabeth II was commissioner-in-chief from 2012 to 2022, and King Charles III was honorary commissioner of the RCMP from 2012 until 2023. In recognition of the RCMP's 150th anniversary and the upcoming coronation, on April 28, 2023, King Charles III consented to assume the title of the RCMP Commissioner-in-Chief. However, neither appointment (commissioner-in-chief or honorary commissioner) exercises a substantive role in the operation of the organization.
List of commissioners
There have been 25 commissioners, including one acting commissioners and one interim commissioner, and excluding one unofficial acting commissioner since the founding of the North-West Mounted Police in 1873:
References
External links
RCMP Executive Committee
Former RCMP commissioners
Diary of Commissioner George French
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Angkatan Kepolisian Kerajaan Kanada
- Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Stuart Wood (police commissioner)
- George McClellan (police officer)
- Dominion Police
- Aylesworth Bowen Perry
- North-West Mounted Police
- Maurice Nadon
- Robert Simmonds
- Malcolm Lindsay
