JTF 2 forces were inserted into Bosnia, operating in two-to-four-man teams hunting for Serbian snipers who were targeting UN forces at the sniper alley. JTF2 does not carry individual battle honours, but instead also shares the motto ubique 'everywhere' with The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery and the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.

Joint Task Force 2's motto is facta non verba, latin for 'deeds not words'. The federal budget of December 2001 allocated approximately $120 million over six years to expand unit capabilities and double its size to an estimated 600 personnel, as part of the overall plan following the attacks of September 11, 2001. However two daily newspapers in Quebec revealed the operation just days before it was to go into action, and it was cancelled. Its first scheduled action was Operation Campus, the protection of highways and water treatment plants around the Oka reserve while a police force tried to 'crack down on smuggling' on the native reserve, immediately following the Oka crisis. They were given the SERT facility on Dwyer Hill Road near Ottawa as their own base of operations, and permanently parked a Greyhound bus and a DC-9 aircraft on the grounds for use in training. In early 1993, the unit was activated with just over 100 members, primarily drawn from the Canadian Airborne Regiment and Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The decision was made largely because the Canadian Forces offered a greater pool of recruits for the program than civilian police forces, and it stemmed the public uproar about police being taught to use primarily lethal means. In 1992, Deputy Minister of Defence Robert Fowler announced he was recommending to Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn that he disband the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) and create a new military counter-terrorism group. Send us feedback.Major-General Nicolas Matern, right, former commander of Joint Task Force 2 and deputy commander of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'police force.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 The rioters beat and bloodied an overwhelmed police force, sent lawmakers running for their lives and caused $1 million in damage. 2021 The organization has helped agencies select chiefs in Maryland, Kentucky, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and for the US Capitol police force in recent years.Д®mma Tucker, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021 The police force goes from taking on a standard caseload to trying to be everywhere at once, Palmer said.Д¬onnor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021 Some communities of color have long accused the cityвЂ™s police force of targeting them disproportionately. 2021 The shooter also wounded four members of the Pittsburgh police force, all of whom lived, and was himself hit in the exchange of gunfire. 2021 Catanzara has said there are enough FOP members willing to follow his direction that should the city place them on no pay status, about 50% of the Chicago police force would not be at work. 2021 More than a third of Chicago's police force of nearly 13,000 are defying a city mandate to report their vaccination status and face disciplinary action as a result. Recent Examples on the Web Attrition has reduced the size of the school police force to levels even below what the board authorized.

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