The murky area is when the criminal threat exceeds the capabilities of law enforcement, which in T2K is going to be pretty common, both due to growth of Marauders/bandits on the one hand and attrition of police resources on the other (less fuel for vehicles, seriously reduced local intelligence when the phone system collapses, reduced commo intra-agency and interagency due to EMP and wear and tear, etc). Add in mission creep as the wheels come further and further off the whole system and it's not really a survivable scenario for any law enforcement agency as currently configured.
In the case of Canada (and typical of anyone else with a central government(s) trying to stay in business) I think that a legal mechanism to deputize militia or military units as needed for law enforcement missions. In this case I would think under RCMP direction, but involved a lot regardless.
I know at the time of the Mad Trapper incident back pre-WW2 the RCMP (or was it NWTMP at that time?) had First Nations special constables. Perhaps that practice/policy is revived and expanded post TDM.
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