Summary
Hoping to boost recruiting of Muslim women, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is allowing its officers to wear hijabs as part of their uniforms, the government said Tuesday.
The RCMP faced a public outcry in 1990 over a decision to allow Sikh officers to wear turbans as part of their uniforms.
However, some 30 officers had asked for a relaxing of the rules for religious or cultural reasons over the past two years, La Presse reported.
With the latest uniform change, the RCMP becomes the third police force in Canada to add the hijab option after Toronto and Edmonton.
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