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Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Aboriginal Policing Services

Ottawa, Ontario
Grant of a Flag and Badge
March 20, 2009
Vol. V, First Peoples, p. 2

Badge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Aboriginal Policing Services

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Blazon

Badge

An inuksuk Argent ensigned by a maple leaf Or and flanked by four eagle feathers issuant from a sash draped fesswise proper;


Symbolism

Badge

The maple leaf refers to the national mandate of the Aboriginal Policing Services, and the other symbols to the major Indigenous groups in Canada: eagle feathers for the First Nations, an inuksuk for the Inuit, and the sash for the Métis.