History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1985-2046
Twelve members of the RCMP were prsent in the town of Prince Rupert when the Canadian central government in the winter of 1985-86. Post commander Christopher Worstell attempted to enforce the laws of Canada and maintain the authority of the non-existant central government until the summer of 2046 showed that there would be no more orders flowing from Ottawa. Augmented by another eleven RCMP members who filtered in over the next year, the RCMP detachment in Prince Rupert continued to enforce the law to the best of its ability.
Due to the numbers of brigand bands wandering the Pacific Northwest in the years after 1985, the RCMP found itself in a paramilitary role, protecting the borders of the new Prince Rupert state. Forced to deal with deteriorating roads and equipment, the RCMP detachment converted back to horses in 1987.
The RCMP soldiered on with its original members until the pending retirement of two members and the death of four more in battle against bandits forced Worstell to begin recruiting new members. An appropriation from the Executive Committee provided for maintaining a force of 50 RCMP troops, this level would be maintained until the RCMP became one of the UKA's national police forces in 2008.
By the early years of the 1990s, the RCMP could no longer hold off the growing tide of lawlessness at the borders of the new dominion. The Executive Committee created an army and navy to supplement the Mounties along the border. A Fijian fleet ravaged the coast of British Columbia from Vancouver Island to the shores of Prince Rupert itself in 1995. Only a desperate defense by a hastily assembled militia led by retired Canadian and U.S. soldiers in the town saved it from being destroyed. Major Worstell was killed in the fighting. The Executive Committee replaced him with his second officer, Captain Michael Galloway. The Mounties continued to aid the military after the create of the new armed forces, but no longer had to bear the brunt of the fighting. It could focus its attention on improving its ability to fight crime. Veteran officers trained the new replacements in the pre-1985 traditions and techniques of RCMP. Galloway emphasized both continuity with the past and a new spirit of adaptability. Under his leadership, the Mounties achieved a new reputation for professionalism and success, giving the Dominion of Prince Rupert the deserved reputation of being the best policed region on the west coast of North America.
When the dominion decided to join the British North American Colonies in 2008, Admiral Ffolkes granted the RCMP national jurisdiction, more as an homage to its title and pre-1985 reputation than anything else. The Mounties could now pursue malefactors outside of the old borders of the dominion, and could call upon any local authorities in the colonies for assistance, but Ffolkes refused to grant the RCMP any funding from the central government, so the RCMP remained the local law enforcement agency of the dominion.
In 2014, Prime Minister Cromett raised the 35th "Lauren Louck's Own" Military Police Regiment from Alaskan volunteers. While primarily intended to be a military police unit, it also was granted police powers over civilians and acted as a para-military police backup for local authorities thoughout the colonies. The 35th proved to be ineffectual as a civilian police entity, however, and law enforcement primarily remained a local affair under Prime Ministers Cromett and Dolphin.
Steady growth of the colonies and the acquisition of large swaths of territory directly administered by the crown rather than local Class I Commonwealth states, and the small numbers of the 35th Regiment, forced the Royal Army into the civilian police role, for which it was not suited.
One of King Josh's earliest acts was to reorganize the law enforcement agencies and jurisdictions within the new kingdom. The 35th was removed from the Royal Army and placed under the Ministry of Internal Security, being redesignated the Royal Alaska Foot Police, and the RCMP was split into the British Columbia Provincial Police and the nationalized RCMP. Colonel Galloway was retained as RCMP commander.
The RCMP cadre inherited from Prince Rupert was used to expand the RCMP to nearly 500 members by 2024. Colonel Galloway strictly controlled both recruitment and training. Ineffeciency, slackness, and corruption were absolutely not tolerated, and the RCMP sooned earned a reputation for both probity and professionalism among the civilian population.
During the 2020s, the Royal Alaska Foot Police earned the opposite reputation, for corruption and inefficiency. Its more rapid growth, coupled with slack training and indiscriminate recruitment led to the arrest of its commander, Colonel William Reese, in the Gold-Franklin Corruption Scandal of 2028.
The king reached his limit of patience in 2031. He abolished the Royal Alaska Foot Police, transferring the best of its personnel to the RCMP early in 2032, and sending the rest to the Royal Army as infantry replacements. Few of the comissioned officers were retained by the RCMP, many resigned rather choosing to go into the army.
During the 2030s, the RCMP, augmented by the former foot police, was reorganzed into twelve companies and distributed among the provinces in small detachments. When Colonel Michael Galloway retired in 2033, he left the agency far larger than ever before, but still with a sterling reputation. His sucessor, Colonel Keonn Humphrey, Galloway's long time second-in-command, was careful to do nothing to change the way the agency was run.
The next challenge for the Mounties came from the occupation of what had been the southeastern United States beginning in 2032 and continuing through 2036. These annexations apporimately doubled the land area of the UKA and had considerably denser populations. RCMP jurisdiction naturally extended through the former states of North and South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, yet no expansion of the Mounties was authorized, so detachments had to be sread much thinner. Georgia remained a Class I Commonwealth with its own exclusive constabulary, the Georgia FBI, which began to work closely with the RCMP.
A further thinning of Mountie resources came from the collapse of the Roman Empire staring in 2037 and the occupation of Spain and Portugal, with the concommitant use of Mountie detachments in the military police role. Europe remained under military government rule, reducing the need for RCMP units, and was further aided by the creation of Commonwealth governments to administer the territory. RCMp officials were instrumental in the training of the constabularies of the new states.
In the great Islamic invasion of 2042, the RCMp was pressed into combat roles and suffered nearly 15% casualties that summer as its people were thrown into the battle lines. The demand for quality replacements taxed the Mountie's recruitment and replacement systems, and King Patrick a royal commission to study the RCMP's needs for the future.
The Topper Report, named for the high commissioner in charge of its creation, Major General Topper, recommended a doubling of the number of RCMP personnel, absorbtion of the Royal Army's MP Companies, improved and expanded training facilities, and improved military training and equipment. Parliament, in the Mountie Act of 2045, authorized almost all of the commission's recomendations. The Royal Army's MP companies were redesignated RCCMP units and a further twelve companies were authorized. A new training facility in South Portland was acqured and the new units began a period of intense training.
Today, the Mounties are in the process of dealing with the massive changes of the last few years without losing the dedication and professionalism that has been the Mountie's hallmark all the way back to their Canadian days.
