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Indian constable

• an Indian employed by the R.C.M.P., earlier the N.W.M.P., as a constable with limited authority on a reserve or in other regions occupied by Indians.

  See also: band constable  policeman (def. 1)  

  • 1886  When the Indian constable went to put him out, he produced a revolver.
  • 1935  The Indian constables had been two weeks in close confinement, but were still convinced that they were in the right over the whole affair.