Canadian Pacific Police Service
| Canadian Pacific Police Service | |
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| Common name | CP Police |
| Abbreviation | CPPS |
Canadian Pacific Railway Police (Canadian Shoulder Flash)
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Crest of the Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service
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Canadian Pacific Railway Police (US Shoulder Flash)
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| Agency overview | |
| Legal personality | Non government: Canadian Pacific |
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| General nature | |
| Specialist jurisdiction | Railways, tramways, and-or rail transit systems. |
| Operational structure | |
| Agency executive | Ken Marchant, Chief of Police |
| Parent agency | Canadian Pacific Railway |
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The Canadian Pacific Police Service (CPPS) is a private railroad police force enforcing safety and policing along Canadian Pacific Railway properties and rail lines in Canada and the United States, including limited sections of the Milton line of GO Transit in the Greater Toronto Area.
The current head of the CP force is Chief Ken Marchant.
The Canadian Pacific Police Service is one of the oldest police services in Canada. CP Police Service, formerly CP Railway Police, have a long and storied past within Canada and CP Rail is a part of Canada's history. Railway police were called upon many times to police railway towns, and to keep the peace during the building of the Canadian Railways from coast to coast. The railway police history dates many years and continues the tradition of protecting Canada's vast section of railway.
In past years they had been downsized and numbered under 100 officers across Canada, however they are currently expanding their numbers across Canada. CP Police are also deployed throughout the CP Rail System in the USA.
Canadian Pacific Police Service are responsible for all aspects of railway security. They are duly appointed and armed federal police officers that gather their authority in Canada via the Railway Safety Act as well as other acts.
The Railway Safety Act is a federal act that allows for any federal railway to appoint officers as police constables. These police constables have all the powers of a regular police officer as it relates to the protection of property owned, possessed or administered by a railway company and the protection of persons and property on that property. Railway police are unique in Canada as they are essentially a private company that employs sworn police officers.
The main duties of a railway police officer are to protect the public using the company facilities, the employees and its assets. This includes public education on trespassing, school awareness programs, investigating crimes against the railway, assist the local police services, issuing tickets and many other duties including security of property and buildings. CP Rail assigns individual officers large sections of railway tracks to patrol and conduct active enforcement and public safety initiatives.
The CP Police uniform consists of a dark blue shirt, dark blue cargo pants with body armour; they are armed with the usual police use of force equipment, as well as a Glock pistol. They are issued a standard police style forage cap. However, CP police do work in plain clothes capacity also.
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