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1917-1932 (Creation)
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27.65 m of textual records
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Policing of the area now known as the Province of Alberta began in 1874 with the creation of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP). When it was created in 1905 from a portion of the Northwest Territories, Alberta signed an agreement with the federal government regarding the use of the NWMP as the province’s police force. Citing reduced manpower as a result of recruitment for World War I as well as increasing responsibilities, the NWMP gave one year’s notice in 1916 that it would not renew the agreement. In 1917, Alberta created its own provincial police force, Alberta Provincial Police. The NWMP, known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) after 1920, continued to act as a federal police service in Alberta.
When the APP disbanded in 1932, its responsibilities were taken over by the K Division of the RCMP. Although a provision of the Police Act (S.A. 1953, c. 90) permitted the re-establishment of a provincial police force, such a force was not created again, and this provision was removed in a revised Police Act in 1973 (S.A. 1973, c. 44).
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The fonds consists of the records of the Alberta Provincial Police pertaining to the administration and operations of the police force. The fonds includes the following series:
Board of Commissioners series
Annual reports series
General orders series
Regulations series
Headquarters files series
Circular memoranda series
Financial records series
Statistical returns series
Personnel series
Investigations index card series
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The scope and content is based on a review of the records.