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

[sage]

You should rewatch the gun-throwing scene in MOTB. *g*

[bghost.livejournal.com]

Yes, Ray would have a gun if he was a Mountie in Canada... in fact, one of the "glitches" of the show was that Fraser, as a Mountie, would have automatically had his gun licence accepted. So I've always chosen to think that he has made a conscious decision not to do the little bits of paper work to allow him to have a gun for some reason of his own. (Perhaps he's worried, like his sister Maggie, what he might do with a loaded gun.) As far as I understand it all he would have to do would be go down to a shooting range and demonstrate competence with his weapon.

But yes... if Ray became a Mountie he would carry a weapon.

So... have you looked into it? Would it be possible for an American cop to become a Mountie?

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Yes, Mounties carry guns in Canada.

[tanyareed.livejournal.com]

I think you'll find it's a S&W. I knew they carried guns (of course, I served them every day at Wendy's. How could I not notice the guns...) but I had to look up the model for my Nano story last year in which (I know no one is reading Naked Truth, but if you are, turn away. Here's a spoiler.) Meg is held hostage with her own gun.

[sl_walker]

Yes. XD Mounties have guns in Canada. They are a police force, patrolling on the federal, provincial and local level. While Due South only briefly had a cameo by duty-uniformed Mounties when they were transferring Ian McDonald, they do patrol in cruisers and they do all of the same policing that Ray would already be familiar with, albeit under a different set of laws. Mounties do everything from street level enforcement, ala the local cop you see running a speed trap, all the way up to years long undercover operations to ferret out federal crime. If Ray were a Canadian citizen (that's a requirement for the RCMP) and managed to pass the various hurdles (physical, polygraph, psych, background), he would certainly be able to become a Mountie.