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Patchwork policing or super-force? BC Mounties debate more oil without overhaul

Friday, 15 March 2013 23:47 Digital - Digital Radio
VANCOUVER - Just after midnight inside the RCMP detachment in Richmond, B.C., Sgt. Tess Nordlund sits calmly at her desk listening to a chattering digital police radio that links thousands of police officers across the region.


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