What is the role of the police?
- To decide verdicts in trials
- To keep people safe and enforce the law
- To make laws
- To run elections
Answer: To keep people safe and enforce the law
The police keep people safe and enforce the law. You can ask them for help after an accident, a theft or an assault, if you see a crime, or if someone has gone missing. Elected representatives make laws and courts decide cases.
Learn more: Police services
- Role of the police: to keep people safe and to enforce the law.
- Ask the police for help after an accident, a theft or an assault, if you see a crime, or if someone has gone missing.
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) enforce federal laws throughout Canada.
- The RCMP also serve as the provincial police in all provinces and territories except Ontario and Quebec, and in some municipalities.
- Ontario and Quebec have provincial police forces.
- Municipal police departments exist in all provinces.
- You can question the police about their service or conduct. Almost all police forces have a process to raise concerns and seek action.