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Mounties under fire [videorecording (DVD)] / directed and written by Helen Slinger.

Location

Public Safety Canada Library

Resource

DVDs

Alternate Title

Doc Zone. Mounties under fire [videorecording (DVD)]
Doc Zone (Television program)

Call Number

HV 8157.5 M68 2010d

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Description

1 videodisc (ca. 44 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (DVD).

Note

Narrator: Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Produced by Bountiful Films in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Originally broadcast on the CBC series Doc Zone on January 21, 2010.

Summary

It’s been a difficult decade for Canada’s national police force. Faith in the RCMP has been shaken — by Maher Arar’s betrayal, the pension scandal, harassment cases, and too many deaths on duty. And especially by the taser death of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport and the subsequent Braidwood Inquiry.
Woven into the big picture — and sometimes colliding with it — are the very human stories of the young recruits stepping into a force under heavy fire. This documentary followed Troop 35 during their six months of training, profiling Alex Rouhani, from Gatineau, Quebec by way of Paris and Tehran; Emily Schmidt from Cranbrook, British Columbia; and Steffan Manuel from Grand Bank, Newfoundland. It also interviews serving members, from top brass, to beat cop, capturing a force in the throes of painful self-examination, struggling to get back to its core values.

Subject

Contents

1. Introduction. -- 2. Physical ability requirement. -- 3. The "new" RCMP. -- 4. Graduation day.

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