Karen Hogan calls attentions to how Public Safety Canada does not accept new applications for funding from Indigenous communities without police forces
The federal government earmarked more than half a billion dollars in recent years to improve and expand Indigenous policing programs, including into the far North, but there has been little development to show for it, according to a new Auditor-General report.
Some Indigenous communities have some of the highest crime-severity rates and lowest police presences in Canada. Statscan recentlythat Indigenous people were six times more likely to be homicide victims than non-Indigenous people. Today, just over half of Canada’s nearly 700 First Nations and Inuit communities have enhanced policing agreements in place. 155 First Nations have accessed the funding to create nearly 40 autonomous Indigenous police forces.
The Auditor-General raised similar issues in a 2014 report. It then found that cost controls had led Ottawa officials to deny First Nations policing program funds to new jurisdictions that wanted to sign up.
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