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83rd Anniversary of the Military Police Branch

15/6/2023

15 June 2023 marks the 83rd anniversary of the Canadian Armed Forces' Military Police Branch, which traces its unbroken lineage back to the creation of the Canadian Provost Corps (Canadian Army) during the Second World War.

For more about the significance of this anniversary date, and to learn about some of Canada's wartime provost marshals, see Looking Back: The Military Police Branch Birthdate, 15 June 1940.

Security Branch flag – adopted in 1976. Military Police Branch flag – 2000 to present.

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MP FALL BALL - 17 NOVEMBER 2023

9/6/2023

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Looking Back: Ship’s Police in the early RCN

8/6/2023

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When the Canadian Naval Service was established in 1910 (soon renamed the Royal Canadian Navy) it inherited the Ship's Police system that was already well established in Britain's Royal Navy. The RCN Ship's Police branch predated the First World War and since its members (called Ship's Corporals and Masters-at-Arms) were specifically "rated" as tradesmen for these specialist duties they were arguably Canada's first permanent service police organization.

The Ship's Police system lasted only for the first 9 years of the RCN's existence, but from this organization was borne the better-known Regulating Branch which continued to provide certain types of policing support to Canada's navy for the next five decades.

Learn more about the Ship's Police in the early RCN and view additional photos here.

Postcard from 1910 that caricatures a member of the Ship's Police (Credit: Ernest Ibbetson)

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83rd Anniversary of the Military Police Branch

MP FALL BALL - 17 NOVEMBER 2023

Looking Back: Ship’s Police in the early RCN

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