High school students in Lumsden, a town in the Qu’Appelle Valley, in south central Saskatchewan, Canada reportedly announced that they were having a party on Facebook. Soon after, this post was chanced upon by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) during their daily social media checks.
Fearing that there would most likely be alcohol and underage drinking among the students, the RCMP Saskatchewan detachment responded to the post positively. The police then went on to promise the students that they would attend with chips, salsa and a lecture about underage drinking, all as a free gift to the students.
Thanks for the invite to the underage frosh party in the #Lumsden area on Saturday night. Lumsden #RCMP will bring…
Posted by Saskatchewan RCMP on Friday, September 18, 2015
According to local media reports, the legal drinking age in the province of Saskatchewan is 19-years-old. The penalty for underage drinking and its related offenses, can reach a fine as high as $1050 Canadian dollars. However, it is said the majority of the party attendees turned out to be under 19 years. At the party, as suspected by the police, alcohol was served.
The police did attend the student’s party, and Facebook users on the Saskatchewan RCMP page confirmed that officers did indeed send the chips and salsa they promised. In addition, they also delivered on their promise to lecture the partying students about the dangers associated with underage drinking.
At the end of the party, the students were said to have been very happy; images posted on Facebook and other social media platforms have confirmed the mood.
Some social media outlets in the United States have questioned why the U.S. police cannot emulate this example. The Daily Dot said, while the U.S. continues to suffer extreme tensions between its police and its citizenry, its neighbor to the north is practicing a kind and gentle method of policing—a method which has proven to be well received by its citizens.
Many also posted comments on social media urging the U.S. police to end its hostile attitude towards citizens. The comments further added, police should instead embrace a friendly nature in order to resolve situations more easily. 
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If the police were to do this it would work, but only if the citizens changed their attitude at the same time, this is a relationship, (police) and (citizens), for any healthy relationship it takes both parties putting in effort, slandering and shaming the other does not work but neither does just letting bad crap happen, we must become organized and co-operate to lead to a better future than what is currently happening
This is a fantastic story! Thank you for sharing. It unfortunate that there are bad people out there in law enforcement, or other positions of power (and just out in the world in general), but it’s people like this that make the world a more peaceful place.
I am happy to see this and fully support this approach, but do not romanticize the RCMP. These are middle class white kids. Ask the Native communities about the “kind and gentle method of policing” that are employed with them by the RCMP. They start to look just like US cops then.
Wth is the matter with you?!? Can’t you even enjoy a feel good story where the police did the right thing without bringing racism into it? Have you ever considered that the general attitude of people like you (quick to play the racism card or use any excuse to bring race into the equation) that propagate the separation and division of race? Get over yourself, and the things of the past, let’s move on as a community/country of people, regardless of race. Applaud the officers and police force involved for a job well done. If you can’t help but make a statement of racial equality, or lack there of, please do it somewhere else. There are plenty of negative FB posts where your comments will fit right in
This is true, but it is refreshing to see some good come of policing for a change. I’m just hoping its not a band-aid operation for police credibility, but then again I’m cynical, I should probably give this a chance it looks legit enough.
you are so right!
Sean, you are so right.
And you know this how? I worked for a First Nation Community for almost 10 years in Ontario which was policed by the Ontario Provincial Police and they were very respectful each time they did their daily rounds and I was the only non-native in the office. They would stop by all of the offices in the building and check on all of us.