Originally Posted by rustyhaight

Here's the deal, you don't get probation if a charge is dismissed. Probation is a sentence, a punishment for a conviction. Instead of a fine or jail time, you "get probation." Simply put, if your description is accurate, you do have a conviction "on your record, in the system" ... somewhere. The RCMP (or a police agency in general) doesn't really independently maintain conviction records: a court does that, the court that generated the conviction.