Seriously? They Really Have Them In Canada...

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

...or more to the point, Outside Canada

I was just looking on wikipedia, that great resource of mostly accurate information. Just as the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is mostly reliable. And the people who find the Guide less than reliable are usually not able to correspond with the publishing house based in Ursa Minor... because they are suffering from terminal lack of oxygen or been eaten by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

Anyway, International Liason Officers are real!!!

The RCMP International Operations Branch assists the Liaison Officer (LO) Program to deter international crime relating to Canadian criminal laws. The IOB is a section of the International Policing, which is part of the RCMP Federal and International Operations Directorate. Thirty-five Liaison Officers are placed in 25 other countries and are responsible for organizing Canadian investigations in other countries, developing and maintaining the exchange of criminal intelligence, especially national security with other countries, to provide assistance in investigations that directly affect Canada, to coordinate and assist RCMP officers on foreign business and to represent the RCMP at international meetings...

I just thought that would be really interesting, now to find out if Mounties have guns in Canada, and more importantly, would Ray have a gun if he was a Mountie in Canada.

Comments

[sl_walker]

He'd have to already be naturalized, but yep! They did away with the age restriction on Mounties some time ago, before Ray's time even, so yeah. He definitely could! Admittedly, he wouldn't get any kind of special treatment for having been American law enforcement, I don't believe, but if he wanted to do it, he could.

I have heard of naturalized Canadians applying, though none specifically who were prior US LEOs. But it's not unheard of; here in the US, we actually had a British citizen working for a local department, though the laws here only require that they've got a permanent residency visa. Up there, you have to have full citizenship.

[bghost.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[hm-f.livejournal.com]

This is great info possibly for new plot ideas.

[sl_walker]

If you ever write it, feel free to link me!

[hm-f.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fanfic writer (mostly because my English is terrible), but I hope someone is going to make a story (or some stories) from your idea, because I'd love to read it/them. :)

[sl_walker]

I could beta for you... :::enables, enables, enables:::

[hm-f.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer. :D Though, it would be impossible right now: I started working on my ds_c6d big bang story (though it's not a fic), so no time for me for working on something this hard as well. :/

I have no beta for the big bang story. In case you aren't going to do a story for the big bang as well, may I still consider your offer for it? I don't know if my story is something you could like, though. No hard feelings if you don't feel to. I also think I'm being quite rude asking this way, so, don't worry if you don't want to.

[sl_walker]

I wouldn't be against giving it a look; feel free to PM me with more details about it.

[luzula]

Not sure where in this comment exchange to reply, but I wrote a fic where Ray K went to Depot and became a Mountie. Of course, I'd still love to see other people's versions of it, too!