Police now and then undergo radical mission adaptation. Yet, how events shape organizational police history, including the adoption of radically different missions, has largely evaded scholarship. Through a review of executive-level interviews and strategic leadership documents, we trace how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police turned from a community-policing mission to one which now highlights intelligence. We argue that while various programs and strategies to garner rank-and-file and public buy-in to the community-policing mission largely failed, problem-oriented policing nevertheless readied the ground for the next mission iteration: intelligence-led policing. The core problem underpinning the transition was not community service, but information uptake.

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Criminologists have noted a significant reorientation of criminal justice policy. Initially this reorientation was most dramatically articulated by Feeley and Simon (1992), who suggested that penality has shifted from the 'modern' to 'new' penology. Criticisms of the binary 'modern' and 'new' penology model has led to the contemporary understanding of penality through a threefold model of: 'punishment-punitive', 'rehabilitativehumanistic' and 'managerial-surveillant' discourses. This research represents an empirically-based attempt to locate GPS-electronic monitoring within this threefold model.

This paper offers a preliminary exploration of a renewed managerialism (or new managerialism) in police discourse and police training in Canada. It reviews changes to the conception of discipline in the supervision of the front-line police officer, and explores how a discourse of bureaucratic organization has been replaced by a 'responsibilization' agenda. It follows this movement in the residential training academy, examining how new training or police learning reforms attempt to reconceive the neophyte officer along new managerialist contours. While this reform can be advanced with the goal of supplanting the traditional military ethos of the police culture, it is argued that the reform may not fulfil this promise and could even leave a notoriously intransigent culture in a condition of renewed empowerment.

In this paper the border is evaluated as a fold of power relations in which