Amalgamation of provincial forces of 1988

The Amalgamation of provincial forces of 1988 was a reorganising of the police of Canada from multiple county constabularies and smaller municipal forces, as well as general provincial sheriffs or police, to a system in which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) would remain the country's federal police force, while all localised forcees throughout each province whould unite under a single provincial police agency. The vast majority of policing in each province of Canada is provided in each county and municipality by stations of the respective provincial police, with the RCMP generally handling only matters of a national nature in the province, while being responsible for all local policing in the territories of Canada as well as the federal capital of Ottawa.