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Army.ca Fixture
- Reaction score
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- Points
- 1,140
Rail Police have limited geographical jurisdiction at present to within 500 metres of railway owned property and right of way. Transport Canada has put forth a proposed change to the Railway Safety Act to extend their jurisdiction province wide within the province in which the constable is employed.Or how MPs, RCMP, CN/CP rail police are all ‘peace officers’ for federal statutes, but don’t have provincial statute authority in Ontario for, eg, traffic offences, mental health act, etc. Nor do they come under provincial oversight for misconduct complaints, or serious injury use of force situations. No surprise there are similar divides in the U.S.
CP Police, now Canadian Pacific/Kansas City Police are a special animal as they are employed in both CA and the US.
