Canada police allow women officers to wear hijab

OTTAWA: Trying to increase hiring of Islamic females, the Elegant Northern america Installed Cops is enabling its authorities to put on hijab as portion of their outfits, the government said Wednesday.

“The commissioner of the Elegant Northern america Installed Cops recently accepted this addition to the consistent,” Community Safety Reverend Rob Goodall's representative Scott Beardsley told AFP.

“This is designed to better indicate the variety in our areas and motivate more Islamic females to consider the Elegant Northern america Installed Cops as a career choice,” he said.

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The RCMP officer’s consistent — a red serge tunic, set driving shoes and wide-brimmed experienced strategy hat — is an famous Northern america icon.

It goes back to the Nineteenth century, when the RCMP’s precursor, the frontier North-West Installed Cops, distribute law and order to the forests of Canada’s european regions and Arctic areas.

Inspired by English army outfits of the period, it has since gone through only minimal changes.

The RCMP experienced a public outcry in 1990 over a decision to allow Sikh authorities to put on turbans as portion of their outfits. Behavior have melted since then and Canadians have accepted the modification.

Three types of hijab were examined before one was selected as suitable for police work, according to letters between Good ale and RCMP Commissioner Bob Paul-son released in a local paper.

The clothing did not encumber authorities and could be eliminated quickly if needed, the Montreal daily La Presses revealed an inner memo as saying.

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No authorities had yet required to put on hijab as of a few months ago, when the policy was silently introduced.

Updated numbers were not instantly available.

However, some 30 authorities had requested for a calming of the guidelines for spiritual or social reasons over the past two years, La Presses revealed. In most cases, the authorities wanted to grow beards.

With the latest consistent modify, the RCMP becomes the third law enforcement officials in Northern america to add the hijab choice after Greater and Edmonton.

Police in England, Norwegian and Norwegian, as well as some US states, now utilize similar guidelines, Bardsley said.