Editing Royal Canadian Mounted Police (section)

===Women in the RCMP===
[[File:Remembrance Day field of crosses Calgary (24471910498).jpg|thumb|A female Mountie during a [[Remembrance Day]] ceremony, 2017]]
In the 1920s, Saskatchewan provincial pathologist [[Frances Gertrude McGill]] began providing forensic assistance to the RCMP in their investigations.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.thewhig.com/2013/04/23/canadas-sherlock-holmes-of-forensic-science|title=Canada's 'Sherlock Holmes of Forensic Science'|website=The Kingston Whig-Standard|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref> She helped establish the first RCMP forensic laboratory in 1937,<ref>{{Cite book|title=The encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |date=2005|publisher=University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Centre |isbn=0889771758|location=Regina|page=584|oclc=57639332}}</ref> and later was its director for several years. In addition to her forensic work, McGill also provided training to new RCMP and police recruits in forensic detection methods.<ref name=":0" /> Upon her retirement in 1946, McGill was appointed honorary surgeon to the RCMP and continued to act as a dedicated consultant for the service up until her death in 1959.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/dr-frances-mcgill-was-saskatchewans-answer-to-sherlock-holmes|title=Dr. Frances McGill was Saskatchewan's answer to Sherlock Holmes|date=May 19, 2017|work=Regina Leader-Post|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref>

On May 23, 1974, RCMP Commissioner [[Maurice Nadon]] announced that the RCMP would accept applications from women as regular members of the service. Troop 17 was the first group of 32 women at [[RCMP Academy, Depot Division|Depot]] in Regina on September 16, 1974, for regular training.<ref>{{cite news |title=32 women join RCMP |agency=Canadian Press |newspaper=The Expositor |location=Brantford, Ontario |date=September 17, 1974 |page =74}}</ref> This first all-female troop of 30 women graduated from Depot on March 3, 1975.<ref>{{cite news |title=Troop 17 Graduates |author=Colleen Slater-Smith |newspaper=The Leader-Post |location=Regina, Saskatchewan |date=March 3, 1975 |page =4}}</ref>

After initially wearing different uniforms, female officers were finally issued the standard RCMP uniforms. Now all officers are identically attired, with two exceptions. The ceremonial dress uniform, or "walking-out order", for female members has a long, blue skirt and higher-heeled slip-on pumps plus a small black clutch purse (however, in 2012 the RCMP began to allow women to wear trousers and boots with all their formal uniforms).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Dene |date=2012-08-16 |url=https://vancouversun.com/life/fashion-beauty/Female+Mounties+earn+right+wear+pants+boots+with+formal+uniforms/7102550/story.html?__lsa=067d-6627 |title=Female Mounties earn right to wear pants and boots with all formal uniforms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106183314/http://www.vancouversun.com/life/fashion-beauty/Female+Mounties+earn+right+wear+pants+boots+with+formal+uniforms/7102550/story.html?__lsa=067d-6627 |archive-date=November 6, 2018 |website=Vancouver Sun |access-date= 2014-04-12}}</ref>) The second exception is the official maternity uniform for pregnant female officers assigned to administrative duties.

The following years saw the first women attain certain positions. 
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* 1981: corporal, musical ride
* 1987: foreign post
* 1990: detachment commander
* 1992: commissioned officer
* 1998: assistant commissioner
* 2000: deputy commissioner
* 2006: interim commissioner<ref>{{cite news|date=July 16, 2007|title=William Elliott sworn in as RCMP commissioner|publisher=[[CBC News]]|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/william-elliott-sworn-in-as-rcmp-commissioner-1.668804|access-date=June 13, 2018|quote=...the organization's first chief not to have served on a police service.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Andrew Mayada|date=December 15, 2007|title=RCMP commissioner promises sweeping changes|publisher=[[CanWest News Service]]|url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=38a04926-a29d-4a23-91fd-173d1e03dec1|access-date=July 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217152327/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=38a04926-a29d-4a23-91fd-173d1e03dec1|archive-date=December 17, 2007|quote=Elliott was appointed the first civilian commissioner in the RCMP's history|df=mdy-all}}</ref>{{NoteTag|note=[[Beverley Busson]] was the first woman to have held the top position in the service, albeit on an interim basis. She was the interim commissioner from December 15, 2006, to July 6, 2007. The first female commissioner, [[Brenda Lucki]] was appointed on March 9, 2018, and was officially sworn into office on April 16, 2018.}}
* 2018: permanent commissioner<ref>{{cite web|date=March 9, 2018|title=Prime Minister announces new Commissioner Designate of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police|url=https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2018/03/09/prime-minister-announces-new-commissioner-designate-royal-canadian|website=Prime Minister of Canada}}</ref>
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