Editing Royal Canadian Mounted Police (section)

===Service in wartime===
The RCMP predecessor, the North-West Mounted Police, were involved in several battles during the [[North-West Resistance]] in 1885.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/north-west-rebellion|title=North-West Resistance|publisher=Historica Canada|access-date=26 December 2024|date=8 July 2021|website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}</ref> During the Second Boer War, members of the NWMP were given [[Leave of absence|leaves of absence]] to join the 2nd Battalion, [[Canadian Mounted Rifles]] (CMR) and [[Strathcona's Horse]]. The service raised the Canadian Mounted Rifles, mostly from NWMP members, for service in South Africa. For the CMR's distinguished service there, King Edward VII honoured the NWMP by changing the name to the "Royal Northwest Mounted Police" (RNWMP) on June 24, 1904.

During the First World War, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (RNWMP) conducted [[Border#Jurisdictional borders|border]] patrols, [[surveillance]] of enemy [[Alien (law)|alien]]s, and enforcement of [[national security]] regulations within Canada. However, RNWMP officers also served overseas. On August 6, 1914, a [[Squadron (army)|squadron]] of volunteers from the RNWMP was formed to serve with the Canadian Light Horse in France. In 1918, two more squadrons were raised, A Squadron for service in France and [[Flanders]] and B Squadron for service in the [[Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force]].

In September 1939, at the outset of the Second World War, the Canadian Army had no military police. Five days after war was declared the Royal Canadian Mounted Police received permission to form a provost company of service volunteers. It was designated "No. 1 Provost Company (RCMP)", and became the [[Canadian Provost Corps]]. Six months after war was declared its members were overseas in Europe and served throughout the [[World War II|Second World War]] as [[Canadian Forces Military Police|military police]].
[[File:The ANP and 293rd MP's Hold District 7 DVIDS278069.jpg|thumb|A [[U.S. Army]] unit in Afghanistan, with an RCMP element embedded with them (centre foreground), 2010.]]
RCMP members were embedded with several military units in Afghanistan during the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan from 2001–14]]. The RCMP was a member agency of the [[Afghan Threat Finance Cell]], a multi-agency intelligence organization formed in 2008.<ref name="KetkNbc2012-02-10">
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 |title=DEA Afghanistan Unit Receives Prestigious Joint Chiefs of Staff Award
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 |date=February 8, 2012
 |quote=The ATFC began operations in mid-2009 and is a multi-agency organization led by the DEA with the Treasury Department and Department of Defense as co-deputies. Additional personnel staff ATFC from the Department of Defense's CENTCOM, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Internal Revenue Service. In the past, the FBI and RCMP also were members. The ATFC's purpose is to attack insurgence funding and financing networks by providing threat finance expertise and actionable intelligence to U.S. civilian and military leaders. The RCMP have also participated in United Nations Peacekeeping operations, sending members to participate actively in various U.N. missions from the late 1980s including observer missions in Namibia, policing missions in Haiti and Kosovo, and CIVPOL operations in Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Sudan.
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