Talk:Royal Newfoundland Constabulary

message: 12,000 personell seems awfully large for a population the size of Newfoundland, especially when you consider that the majority of policing is done by the RCMP, not RNC. 12,000 would indicate that over 2% of the province's population are members of the RNC, which seems incredibly high. Perhaps some verification could be done on this statistic. The RCMP, which policies ALL of Canada (32 million) has only 16,000 members, after all.
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Remember that these numbers also include two cities in Labrador West, and also the two cities on the island of Newfoundland itself. The areas that the RNC have jurisdiction in on the island have 201,234 currently living there, and in Labrador they control three communities of Labrador city (population 7,744), Wabush (population 1,894) and Churchill Falls (population 645), as well the 71,700 square kilometres of surrounding wilderness area. If the numbers are inflated, it is not by much.  Squadcar56 19:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbers seem inflated

message: The statement that the RNC is on of only 6 police services with royal (specifically British) patronage is incorrect.
Without making too much effort I can come up with:
* Royal Canadian Mounted Police
* Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary
* Royal Grenada Police
* Royal Solomon Islands Police
* Royal Bahamas Police Force
* Royal Gibraltar Police 
* Royal Falkland Islands Police
* The Royal Barbados Police
* Royal St. Lucia Police
* Royal Anguilla Police
* Royal Virgin Islands Police Force
* Royal Saint Vincent Police
You could also include the Royal Military Police and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (the PSNI "incorporates" the RUC, thus the Royal patronage of the RUC continues even if the word "Royal" is not used).
Its therefore obvious that there are lot more than 6 "Royal" police services. --Xorkl000 06:31, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is no objection in the next couple of days I will remove the statement about the whole Royal thing, seems pretty clear that it is untrue.Dbrodbeck (talk) 12:34, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Police forces with royal patronage 

message: I refer to the section: "The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) is the provincial police force of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. RNC is one of three provincial forces left in Canada. It also provides policing to the cities of St. John's, Corner Brook, Churchill Falls, and Labrador City."
The RNC is not a "provincial" force in comparison to the OPP and QPP.  It *only* provides policing services to the major metropolitan areas (not 'also'), while the RCMP is responsible for the rest of the province.  These facts are in the article, but are contradicted by the opening statement.209.128.8.150 (talk) 18:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  RNC is not Provincial 

message: The sub-heading Fleet do not lend any information to the article; it's simply a listing of make and model of various automobiles. I suggest the section goes unless more pertinent information can be supplied, (i.e. year(s) employed, colours used, branding, number of units in fleet, plus any other useful information). --HJKeats (talk) 15:46, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fleet 

message: Can it be reliably said that the RNC is the last  public police force in North America whose members had been authorized to be armed while on duty? (Unless there are any left unarmed) - knoodelhed (talk) 06:12, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that it can - to my knowledge, there is no police service in North America that isn't routinely armed, and most Canadian police forces have been routinely armed from the get ReactionEquipment (talk) 22:21, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last force in North America to go armed?