What Canadian Mounties Go Through At Boot Camp

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you're going to give me, it's the strongest you can be 1920, my God, forbid the day you have to yell at someone to stop the police, to drop the knife because You're coming at you with a sharp weapon, no whispers, no place for the meek and mild in this job, these cadets are training to become members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, more commonly known as Mounties, but before they dawn, the iconic scarlet tunic known as All Red Serge cadets must graduate from the RCMP's 26-week training program, which combines intense tactical training with customs and traditions steeped in Canadian history.

Each year, about 1,000 cadets graduate from the Academy before joining the 20,000 RCMP officers serving across the country. country on a very cold week in December we spent five days at the academy where we saw different troops at various stages of the 26 week training program the first day a new troop is greeted by the commanding officer of the Academy everyone wants you to succeed we 'We are incredibly happy that you are finally sitting in these seats as members of Troop 29 and we want you to succeed, but we won't do it for you, you have to do it yourselves.

The application process, which includes a polygraph test, can take around eight months, everyone took a year of their life to finally get here. Sometimes we see cadets go home after 24 hours. It will probably take a couple of weeks for them to get used to the routine, so spend at least a couple of weeks working hard. a little fun and good luck. Are we a friendlier police organization? That's a comment we actually say out loud verbally now that we're in the service industry. We are there to serve the Canadian public, so if we create that type of environment, we are hopeful that the cadets will remember that and, when they are in their various communities, they will continue to work with the communities as they were trained.

Training takes place here at the RCMP Division Academy Depot located in Regina Saskatchewan, about 100 miles north of the US border is a region of Canada known as the Prairie, where during our visit to Regina the Sustained winds combined with low temperatures made it constantly feel around -25 degrees Fahrenheit. The starting salary for an officer in the RCMP is about $53,000 a year after three years. increases to around 86,000 Applicants must be at least 19 years old and willing to move anywhere in Canada, including remote provinces like Yukon and Nunavut The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as we know it today, was founded in 1920, Canadian Rockies, the legendary Mounties are the symbol of law and order in this vast domain, although they are called Mounties, the RCMP is not a mounted police force and horses are only used for ceremonial events, we are not what you see In Hollywood movies, people see red jackets and pointy hats. black horses and they think that's what the RCMP is, but we're police officers first and foremost and I think that's probably the biggest mistake.

The reality is that you police the back roads and small towns yourself. We are a police force. That's the most important message and all. It begins here at Depot, where the majority of training focuses on mastering police procedures practiced in realistic scenarios where cadets play the role of both officer and suspect. Anything you tell me can be used as evidence. You understand? Yes, I just want to. to learn I made a mistake I didn't mean to I'm not that kind of person Okay, that's good to know. Can I get a 1028 1029? Professionals in a Saskatchewan marker when they are ready, we are trying to prepare them for the realities of keeping an eye on you. having something on them that could hurt me or you, being a police officer is not an easy profession, we do the program in such a way that they are physically and mentally prepared, but they also have to have common sense, they have to know their powers of arrest, they have to know the law, so it's a real combination of two things that have to happen at the same time, the male and female cadets trained together in the depot and even faced each other in police defensive tactics training or PDT, obviously in policing we don't choose to our opponent, we are not always going to be matched with a normal size like you would see in a boxing or MMA sport.

Most of our cadets come here without any experience. Some of them have never been involved in a fight, so it is very difficult for them. To understand how to deal with a situation like that, cadets face additional disadvantages sometimes they are only allowed to use one hand or they are only allowed to use leg strikes. Another exercise requires a combatant to spin in a circle before the fight begins. With an opponent on the street, it could happen that you get hit in the head and that can create some kind of rush, concussion type scenario. We want to make sure they have this kind of understanding without putting them in difficult situations. a concussion to help you because we don't want them to get hurt, but with flying hits, sometimes minor injuries happen, some things like that happen, we try to mitigate that as much as we can, so it's almost a good thing that he can feel it.

So if it happens on the field, he knows how to deal with it. In this scenario, cadets attempt to subdue an aggressive attacker and apply handcuffs, but it is not easy to make the scenario more challenging. The cadets face aggressors who are bigger and stronger than their goal. Their goal is to try to grab the gun and baton from the cadets' duty belt. The reason we do this is basically to allow the police officer to re-evaluate the entirety of that situation and now that the danger has increased for the police officer, they should be able to re-evaluate that situation and I thought communication is the big key here. , they want to communicate with their partner and then come up with a new plan based on their ever-evolving risk assessment, no one dies in the warehouse, this is the place to do it. mistakes because when police officers make mistakes, people get hurt, some of the things they see and will see are not pretty and we need to help them prepare so that physical and mental exposure to pepper spray is a common part of police training and not It's different in the RCMP we want them to appreciate the use of pepper spray so that they essentially understand that it's painful and that they understand that it works, it's effective and that they can fight it if they expose themselves to OC spray, do 50 jumps. jacks, so we just want to increase their heart rate to simulate that they were in some kind of physical altercation, maybe then they will enter the actual chamber where it has been contaminated with pepper spray.

It's already been 17 arrests and then they have to arrest the guy inside that chamber keeping their eyes open, being aware of their surroundings and fighting that painful experience, but in the depot, the cadets take it to another level after being exposed, the cadets leave the facility and make an arrest in the freezing cold. Would you like to speak with a lawyer when we return to the office? They probably barely noticed the cold when they were outside, immediately after exposure, only once the effects wore off did they realize that it was actually cold outside. In fact, it will help somewhat numb the pain of the pepper spray once they return to a warmer environment.

Simply adjust the volume. Can everyone hear me there? What can they hear me? Okay, guys, okay. The things I say are very important. cadets shoot between 800 and 900 rounds during their 65 hours of training at the range, probably 15 to 20 percent of the cadets who show up have some type of firearms experience, whether pistol, shotgun , rifle or hunting, we can take someone with absolutely no experience with guns or firearms and make them pretty good and successful shooters in the program, so in the second week they receive their Smith & Wesson 59 46 service pistol , which is their gun and will follow them throughout their career until they retire or move.

Moving on, firearms are a very important skill set and if the day ever comes that you really need to rely on your gun to protect a human life, it will be a situation in which we hope you are competent and prepared. for that day when we interact with a video in which players create a scenario that tests judgment and how to de-escalate a threatening situation. The mock trial room is also equipped with what is known as a firing cannon that fires projectiles. with the cadets, we can basically give them a little chance with the back shot, Adam, and they'll remind them to take cover, so it's only necessary once or twice and then they quickly take cover behind.

Each cadet must pass the pair test represented by the hare. physical fitness requirements assessment is used to determine a cadet's physical fitness for service the par is the current working standard test we use is the measure of success of physical fitness and physical ability when cadets graduate from the depot , so if a cadet is not successful in the pair then they will not graduate from our program, cadets will run six laps of an obstacle course that includes running up a set of stairs twice in each lab as well as jumping a few lower obstacles and go over a 3 foot barrier that is on the ground and get So they go through that loop six times and then they go to what we call the push-pull station that replicates that altercation and they need to push and maneuver a I weigh six times the way 270 pounds is the standard for what we call a pass.

Four minutes and 45 seconds in surveillance The physical demands are unpredictable and it is difficult to do your job well or safely if you are not fit. Cadets are also timed in scenario-specific training like this exercise where the objective is to load the bed of a truck with several lives. -Saving supplies, each item weighs about 50 pounds and the goal is to safely load the truck in less than 2 minutes. Training moves outdoors as cadets work with a dog handler. This is Bailey, she was my partner, she's a police dog. I spent seven years on the road. with her as a police dog and we were partners, she does what are called uniform races that are supposed to simulate running with a dog handler chasing a suspect or looking for a lost person, we ended up jumping a lot of fences to chase the bad guys, it's just the nature of our job is to try to get a dog to jump a fence, the main thing is the dog's safety, we don't want the dog to get hurt chasing someone, so there are certain ways to get dogs over the fancy What do they use. their harness so what we normally do is we put one person on top of the fence and on top of the fence and then I hand them the dog and their job is to make sure it comes back over the fence or jumps over the other side to get hurt, we are lucky with Bailey Bailey is very friendly and very easy to work with the cadets uses a little learning tool to show them how to be around the dog and what the dog looks like when he is actually working.

To pass a rigorous inspection of their barracks, known in the RCMP as pit cadets, they place all the components of their duty belt on their beds and stand still while an officer inspects all of her clothing and personal belongings. Cows sacrifice their lives for their development. What they have done to him, the way they presented his advocates is an extension of themselves and translates to other areas throughout the cadet training program. It's currently minus 25 degrees and you're here in a wrought iron cap, you're not prepared. for duty, this entire troop will be learning assistant tomorrow morning at 7:30 wear your fur hat and bring your head here, so you've been wearing to class.

What sets the RCMP apart is its uncompromising attention to detail, which is on full display in the drill hall where cadets spend hours practicing maneuvers and marching customs, it is an extremely valuable component of training here because it teaches cadets that sense of discipline, self-control and composure, it's about conditioning the mind, simple commands that you respond to, you see the threat, you respond even though it seems very ceremonial in nature, it's all connected with vigilance from the bottom of the lapel to down here, bring it down to the bottom here, that's where it should be, why are those things important in our uniform public perception of us?

What happens if we have poor people? public perception lack of faith it's not about buttons and zippers and it's not about marching everything has a connection to policing attention to detail in your uniform translates to looking for what's missing looking for what could be evidence when you go out theField exercise practice culminates in a ceremony known as the sergeants major parade and each week a special guest, a 28-year-old man with special needs named Matthew, attends. He has been coming to the Deppoh RCMP parade on Tuesdays for the past six years and it is the best thing for him.

This is what he's looking forward to most, to be able to come here and have this relationship that he's developed with the drilling unit, it's just tremendous, like they took him under their wing and he had his own uniform, you know, they did. He is an honorary cadet, although the Mounties are known for their iconic scarlet tunic, this is the uniform you will actually see a modern Mountie wear in service, but the red Serge remains a defining feature of the RCMP used as formal dress for ceremonial events. meets here we are a team of more than 20 tailors we alter the uniforms to the specific measurements of each cadet we disassemble them we put them together and make the modifications we like to see the smile on their faces when they come in and you know that they put on the clothes when they receive the tunics and know they are wearing prestigious garments.

The week before graduation, cadets attend what is known as the regimental dinner held in the officers' mess. It is a tradition that, according to RCMP media, they are not allowed to attend. has allowed them to attend so far, it exposes them to the importance of our history, we adhere to some very old traditions that we have inherited from the British Army. and the Canadian military, which we have made our own, a seat at the table is left unoccupied to honor the memory of the more than 240 RCMP officers who have died in the line of duty, is truly the culmination of that family piece of which talk later. from the beginning, build them that esprit de corps sitting there together as the four of them celebrating the organization they are about to join before they graduate, the cadets participate in the oath ceremony, this is true, they took their oaths in French after take the oaths the cadets remove the epaulettes from their uniforms, which means that they are no longer cadets, they have become members of them out of place, they grow up to inches and look very proud and their families and their friends when they You see they are very proud of what they do.

We've gotten Canadians to trust the RCMP and for a long time it's fragile and we have to make sure we keep them.