1. Ranks

2. Commissioners
    Board of Commissioners  After re-organisation 

3. Stations and divisions

4. Equipment and vehicles
    Land fleet  Weapons 

5. Officers killed in the line of duty

6. See also

7. References

The Alberta Provincial Police was a police force active in Alberta, Canada, between 1917 and 1932.

In 1917, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police left Alberta due to a lack of sufficient resources in light of its increased responsibilities for national security during World War I and possibly its reluctance to again enforce Prohibition law recently put into effect by the Alberta government after its experience doing so during territorial times.^[1] It was replaced by the newly created Alberta Provincial Police on March 1, 1917, which was responsible for provincial policing until 1932, when it was eliminated as a cost-cutting measure during the Great Depression.^[2]

Today the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's "K" Division is responsible for provincial policing in Alberta and the Alberta Sheriffs Branch is responsible for additional provincial law enforcement.

Ranks

Known ranks on the force:

• Commissioner
• Assistant Superintendent
• Superintendent
• Inspector
• Detective
• Sergeant
• Constable

Commissioners

Board of Commissioners

• Philip Carteret Hill Primrose – Chairman (1917–1919) – Police Magistrate for the city of Edmonton and previously with the North-West Mounted Police
• Arthur George Browning KC (1917–1919) – Deputy Attorney General
• Gilbert Edward Sanders CMG, DSO (1917–1919) – Police Magistrate for the city of Calgary and previously with the North-West Mounted Police; served in World War I with rank of lieutenant colonel

After re-organisation

• Alfred Cuddy 1919–1922 – former Chief of Calgary Police (1912–1919) and Assistant Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police^[3]
• Willoughby Charles Bryan 1922–1932 – previously with the North-West Mounted Police.^[4][3]

Stations and divisions

Alberta Provincial Police stations were known as barracks or detachments with about 100 when the force was created in 1917.^[5]

The province was divided into division regions: Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary, Lethbridge, Peace River, and Grande Prairie.

Equipment and vehicles

Land fleet

• Indian Motorcycles with sidecars

Weapons

• Winchester Model 1876 saddle carbine—issued in .45-75 Winchester^[6]
• Lewis guns mounted on motorcycles ^[7]
• MP18 sub-machineguns ^[7]

Officers killed in the line of duty

• Constable F.W.E. Bailey (September 23, 1889 - August 7, 1920) – Shot to death by train hold-up desperadoes, Crowsnest Pass.^[8]
• Constable Frank Sissons (? - September 8, 1921) – shot in accident while inspecting living conditions of a family.^[8]
• Constable Oleson (? - 1922) – injured seriously while enforcing order on a strikers' picketline at Cardiff, Alberta, died later in hospital.
• Constable George Osgoode (? - January 25, 1922) – shot by bootlegger at Kinuso.^[8]
• Constable Stephen O. Lawson (June 8, 1880 - September 21, 1922) – Shot to death by bootleggers Emilio Picariello and Florence Lassandro, or other shooter, Crowsnest Pass.^[8]

See also

• Alberta Sheriffs Branch
• British Columbia Provincial Police
• Saskatchewan Provincial Police

References

• Sir Thomas Palmer
• Sir Thomas Palmer, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Parker
• Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart.
• Sir Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Peneystone
• Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Phillips
• Sir Thomas Pilkington
• Sir Thomas Pilkington, 7th Baronet
• Sir Thomas Playford, GCMG
• Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Puckering, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Putt, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Ragland
• Sir Thomas Rant
• Sir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood
• Sir Thomas Rivers, 2nd Baronet
• Sir Thomas Rolt
• Sir Thomas Rolt of Sacombe
• Sir Thomas Rous, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Rouse, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Rudolph Hampden Smith