The Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP - and in Canada

by Paul Palango

Book Overview

The national police force, which has proudly symbolized Canada around the world for over a century, has been having a few bad decades. From barn-burning to break-ins at 24 Sussex Drive all the way to Airbus, the force has seemed to reel from crisis to crisis. In 1997, journalist Paul Palango, who had already written about the RCMP in the bestselling Above the Law, set out to take another look at the force for Maclean's magazine. In the course of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771069065
• ISBN13: 9780771069062
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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 thoughts and broden your opinions as to Federal and Municipal Policing in this country.