The Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP - and Canada
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0771069065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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The national police force, which has proudly symbolized Canada around the world for over a century, has been having a few bad decades. Members of the RCMP co-operated with him everywhere he went – and talked freely to him.What Paul Palango found at the end of his journey was a force in crisis, struggling to be all things to all Canadians in a society that is no longer sure what role it wants the federal police to play – but is sure that it wants them to do it on less money. Palango wanted to try to show how and why the RCMP had reached this point, and what the implications might be for society as a whole. This book is the result.With the blessings of the force, he set out across the country, interviewing highly placed officers – past and present – watching cadets train at the force’s historic Regina headquarters, going on night patrol with constables both in a remote Manitoba community and in suburban Burnaby, B.C., checking out the new drive to community policing – and some of the communities it serves. Palango also argues that looking carefully at the RCMP, shaped as a federal institution by all the societal and economic pressures that have swept the country over the years, is an effective way to examine many of the problems that ail Canada after the event of September 11, 2001.. From barn-burning to break-ins at 24 Sussex Drive all the way to Airbus, the force has seemed to
More recently,Palango has been a columnist for Toronto’s eye Weekly. He lives near Toronto with his wife and two daughters. . Paul Palango is a veteran investigative journalist. In 1978, he joined the Globe and Mail as a reporter, and between 1983 and his resignation in 1990, he served successively as its sports editor, Metro editor, and, eventually, national editor. During his tenure at the Globe and Mail, Palan
I thought this was right on the Mountie This book was excellent in it's detail of how the RCMP have been challenged by political influeance and policy shift over the last decades. It explains the roots of the RCMP culture and the members who have seen the changes through various goverments and Commissioners. If you understand policing, and appreciate the challenges faced by frontline and management officers, but can't reason with current direction and focus, this book will open your . Mitchell King said A bit of a crisis with the author as well. This book was not quite what I expected, as it contained a lot of politics and not as much policing information as I would have liked, but that was the author's decision, so I cannot condemn him for that. But I would like to meet his editor and ask him or her what they were thinking whenever they sent this book to print. I found that it repeated itself way too much, and it seemed that at least a couple of sentences on every page didn't really m
In 1978, he joined the Globe and Mail as a reporter, and between 1983 and his resignation in 1990, he served successively as its sports editor, Metro editor, and, eventually, national editor. A graduate of Carleton University’s journalism program, he started his career at the Hamilton Spectator, his hometown newspaper. More recently,Palango has been a columnist for Toronto’s eye Weekly. During his tenure at the Globe and Mail, Palango’s reporters swept the Centre for Investigative Reporting Awards in five consecutive years. He lives near Toronto with his wife and two daughters. In 1989, he accepted the Michener Award on behalf of the Globe. . About the AuthorPaul Palango is a veteran investigative journalist