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Police History

   
LAW  ENFORCEMENT
(FROM THE 1955 HISTORY OF BIENFAIT BOOK)

The North-West Mounted Police arrived in the year 1902.
Their only means of transportation was on horseback and sleighs.
One of the first Mounties was Sergeant Larry Lett.
One of the first Provincial Police was Robert Dunbar.
Some of the duties of the Provincial Police were:
                         1) To catch criminals and law-breakers
                                                        2) To go to the homesteaders during the winter months
                                                to see if the families were in need of coal
3) To put out prairie fires.
Incidents which required the aid of the police were:
                     1) The murder of Paul Matoff one night in October of the year 1922
at the height of the border-booze-running period.
2) They were responsible for catching the rum-runners
who stole carloads of whiskey and trucked it out of town.

   
 
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