Police

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

were approaching the Alberta-NWT border, we saw a police car in the middle of the road with its lights


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …

2022). He was posthumously exonerated, and Wuhan police formally apologized to his family on 19 March


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

shifted the ‘preferred meaning’ of the issue to a police function, and the reporting primarily drew on


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 November 2024 English

“This book is absolutely amazing and one of the most original collections that I have read in many years. Intended for everyone who inhabits Turtle Island—Indigenous and settler alike—Manomin encourages …

selves traumatically separated by Indian Agents and police officers—before the harvest could be brought home


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 29 October 2024 English

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the “how-to”) with a focus on the practical application of …

street at a particular time. Or whether contacting a police officer is an effective way to resolve an issue


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

shot rifle to the British Columbia Provincial Police in October 1940. By February 1942 their radio


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 20 October 2024 English

Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.

Conservative Party RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police SC Social Credit Partyxiii Acknowledgements


Fraser Institute · 16 October 2024 English

The annual index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which people in 165 jurisdictions around the globe are allowed to make their own economic choices. …

of contracts, protection of real property, and police and crime. The rating for Area 2 is adjusted based G. Real property D. Military interference H. Police and crime Note: Area 2 ratings are calculated with shocked the nation by firing the nation’s entire police force, some 30,000 officers. This passage makes


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English

Now you can cheer for the Habs every day of the year! The Montreal Canadiens are one of the most storied franchises in hockey. No club has won more Stanley …

uniforms for the game. With it unlikely that the police would find the marauders and the missing merchandise retired to their respective dressing rooms, the police arrived and placed both men under arrest for disorderly followed in the hockey world and beyond. Montreal police opened a criminal investigation, and Air Canada


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …

they have neither responsibility nor jurisdiction. Police orga- nizations have also been disturbingly slow for social respectability, from a need to deflect police attention, or simply when a schismatic group wishes


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