Social media
Terms of use
- Emergencies
- Please dial 9-1-1.
- Crime reporting
- The RCMP cannot accept reports of crime, provide legal advice or interpretation of the law via social media. Please dial 9-1-1 or contact your local RCMP detachment to report a crime or if you need police assistance.
- Content and frequency
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By following our social media accounts, you can expect to see information about the programs and services we provide.
New content is posted Monday to Friday from 8 am to 5 pm, Eastern Time.
Because the servers of social media platforms are managed by a third party, our social media accounts are subject to downtime that may be out of our control. As such, we accept no responsibility for platforms becoming unresponsive or unavailable.
- Links to other websites and ads
- Our social media accounts may post or display links or ads for websites that are not under our control. The Government of Canada is not responsible for the information found through these links or ads, nor does it endorse the sites or their content.
- Following, "favouriting" and subscribing
- Our decision to "follow," "favourite" or "subscribe" to another social media account does not imply an endorsement of that account, channel, page or site, and neither does sharing (re-tweeting, reposting or linking to) content from another user.
- Comments and interaction
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We ask that your social media interactions with the RCMP be relevant and respectful. We reserve the right to disable the commenting feature on posts, delete comments that violate this notice, and the user may be blocked and reported to prevent further inappropriate comments.
We cannot engage in issues of party politics or answer questions that break the rules of this notice.
We reserve the right to edit or remove comments that:
- Contain personal information;
- Are contrary to the principles of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
- Express racist, hateful, sexist, homophobic, slanderous, insulting or life-threatening messages;
- Put forward serious, unproven or inaccurate accusations against individuals or organizations;
- Are aggressive, coarse, violent, obscene or pornographic;
- Are offensive, rude or abusive to an individual or an organization;
- Are not sent by the author or are put forward for advertising purposes;
- Encourage illegal activity;
- Contain announcements from labour or political organizations;
- Are written in a language other than English or French;
- Are unintelligible or irrelevant;
- Are repetitive or spam; and
- Do not, in our opinion, add to the normal flow of the discussion.
The views of users commenting on our social media accounts do not necessarily represent the views of Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Government of Canada.
- Accessibility of social media platforms
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Social media platforms are third-party service providers and are not bound by Government of Canada standards for Web accessibility.
If you have difficulty accessing content on our social media accounts, please contact us and we will try to solve the problem or provide you with the information in a different format.
- Copyright
- Information that we post is subject to the Copyright Act.
- Privacy
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Our social media accounts are not Government of Canada official websites and represent only our presence on third-party service providers.
For more information, please refer to our Privacy Notice regarding third-party social media.
- Official languages
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Many social media platforms have multiple language options and provide instructions on how to set your preferences. The Government of Canada respects the Official Languages Act and is committed to ensuring that our information of is available in both French and English and that both versions are equal quality.
We may share links that direct users to sites of organizations or other entities that are not subject to the Official Languages Act and available only in the language(s) in which they are written. When content is available in only one language, we make an effort to provide similar content in the other official language.
- Questions and media requests
- Reporters are asked to send questions to the Media Relations Unit
Social media accounts
Order | Name | Platform | Location |
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1 |
Commissioner Mike Duheme |
Ontario | |
2 |
RCMP National |
Ontario | |
3 |
Alberta RCMP |
Alberta | |
4 |
British Columbia RCMP |
British Columbia | |
5 |
New Brunswick RCMP |
New Brunswick | |
6 |
Newfoundland and Labrador RCMP |
Newfoundland and Labrador | |
7 |
Northwest Territories RCMP |
Northwest Territories | |
8 |
Nova Scotia RCMP |
Nova Scotia | |
9 |
Nunavut RCMP |
Nunavut | |
10 |
Manitoba RCMP |
Manitoba | |
11 |
Ontario RCMP |
Ontario | |
12 |
Prince Edward Island RCMP |
Prince Edward Island | |
13 |
Quebec RCMP |
Quebec | |
15 |
RCMP Depot Division |
Alberta and Saskatchewan | |
14 |
Saskatchewan RCMP |
Saskatchewan | |
16 |
Yukon RCMP |
Yukon | |
17 |
BC Highway Patrol |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Burnaby Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Comox Valley Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Coquitlam Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Cranbrook Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Elk Valley Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Fort St. John Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Golden-Field Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Kamloops Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Kelowna Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Kimberly Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Kitimat Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Lower Mainland District |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Mission Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Nanaimo Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
North District |
British Columbia | |
17 |
North Vancouver Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
100 Mile House Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Port Alberni Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Prince George Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Prince Rupert Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Richmond Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Ridge Meadows Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Sidney/North Saanich Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Smithers Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
South East District |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Surrey Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Ucluelet Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
University Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
Vancouver Island District |
British Columbia | |
17 |
West Shore Detachment |
British Columbia | |
17 |
White Rock Detachment |
British Columbia |
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