List of Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners
List of Commissioners
There have been 24 Commissioners since the founding of the NWMP in 1873:

List of Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners

Section Title: List of Commissioners
Table Section Text: There have been 24 Commissioners since the founding of the NWMP in 1873:

Agency	Number	Name	Term Start	Term End	Notes

North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) (1873–1920)	1.	W. Osborne Smith	September 25, 1873	October 17, 1873	First Commissioner of the NWMP.

2.	George Arthur French	October 18, 1873	July 21, 1876

3.	James Farquharson MacLeod	July 22, 1876	October 31, 1880

4.	Acheson Gosford Irvine	November 1, 1880	March 31, 1886

5.	Lawrence William Herchmer	April 1, 1886	July 31, 1900

6.	Aylesworth Bowen Perry	August 1, 1900	March 31, 1923	The NWMP merged with the Dominion Police in 1920 to form the RCMP, thus Perry was the final Commissioner of the NWMP and the first Commissioner of the RCMP.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) (1920–present)

7.	Cortlandt Starnes	April 1, 1923	July 31, 1931

8.	Sir James Howden MacBrien	August 1, 1931	March 5, 1938

9.	Stuart Taylor Wood	March 6, 1938	April 30, 1951

10.	Leonard Hanson Nicholson	May 1, 1951	March 31, 1959

11.	Charles Edward Rivett-Carnac	April 1, 1959	March 31, 1960

12.	Clifford Walter Harvison	April 1, 1960	October 31, 1963

13.	George Brinton McClellan	November 1, 1963	August 14, 1967

14.	Malcolm Francis Aylesworth Lindsay	August 15, 1967	September 30, 1969	RCMP Patrol Vessel Lindsay was named in his honour.

15.	William Leonard Higgitt	October 1, 1969	December 28, 1973	RCMP Patrol Vessel Higgitt was named in his honour.

16.	Maurice Jean Nadon	January 1, 1974	August 31, 1977	RCMP Patrol Vessel Nadon was named in his honour. The present day RCMP National Headquarters building in Ottawa was named in his honour on October 05th, 2011.

17.	Robert Henry Simmonds	September 1, 1977	August 31, 1987	RCMP Patrol Vessel Simmonds was named in his honour.

18.	Norman Inkster	September 1, 1987	June 24, 1994	RCMP Patrol Vessel Inkster was named in his honour.

19.	Joseph Philip Robert Murray	June 25, 1994	September 1, 2000

20.	Giuliano Zaccardelli	September 2, 2000	December 15, 2006

21.	Beverley Busson	December 15, 2006	July 16, 2007	Interim Commissioner; Busson was the RCMP's first female Commissioner.

22.	William J. S. Elliott	July 16, 2007	November 20, 2011	First civilian Commissioner.

23.	Bob Paulson	November 21, 2011	June 30, 2017

—	Dan Dubeau	June 30, 2017	April 16, 2018	Acting Commissioner; Dubeau served in the role at the rank of Deputy Commissioner.

24.	Brenda Lucki	April 16, 2018	Incumbent	Current Commissioner; Lucki is the RCMP's first permanent female Commissioner.

Sentence(s)

Elliott was announced as the 22nd Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in July 2007, making him the first commissioner.

final_sentence: Elliott was announced as the 22nd Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in July 2007, making him the first commissioner.