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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

This is the first thing many foreigners think of when they think about Canada and I was just looking for some ways to make the article better.

Some ones I can think of are:

Expand Modern Era section to include more than just the Mayerthorpe incident, but also present day activities of the RCMP
Add section on accidents/disasters that befell the Force
Get some pictures of Mounties in modern unifroms, not red serge
Fix the rank table to make it more attractive
Include info from RCMP Academy, Depot Division & RCMP Recruiting
Just make the article more accesible to non-Canadians and non-historians

Look forward to any suggestions. Madison Gray 18:51, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Add stuff in about Albert Johnson the Mad Trapper of Rat River, who killed a number of Mounties inthe 1930s.Big media circus at the time.Luigizanasi 20:28, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Too much of bold text
The =RCMP in wartime= has too many subsections. Remove those sub headings (subsections), and expand the =The RCMP in wartime= as a single unit.
Please keep the with of the images between 240-270px. In 800x600 it occupies too much space. Higher res images also mean more loading time for low bandwidth connections.
Expand organisation
=Modern Era= & =Creation of the RCMP= too short. Merge with another section if expn not possible.
Most of Canada's provinces, while constitutionally responsible for law and order, prefer to sub-contract policing to this professional national force that consequently operates under their direction in regard to provincial and municipal law enforcement very long sentence: split. another example: The RCMP was created as the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1873, given the "Royal" title in 1904, becoming the Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP), and renamed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force in 1920 when the RWNMP was merged with the Dominion Police
A front view photo of the police would greatly enhance the article.

=Nichalp «Talk»= 05:44, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the input Luigizanasi and Nichalp. Nichalp, just wondering what you meant by a front view photo of the police. Do you mean like a RCMP officer in their day-to-day uniform?--Madison Gray 02:31, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I meant that, full length view. =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:27, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

I would like to see the "The RCMP in popular culture" section moved to the end, right before "see also" The history of the uniform and the ranks is in my opinion more important and should be talked about first. - Mgm|^(talk) 04:51, September 8, 2005 (UTC)