Funds for Indigenous policing will run out as early as this month, say funds for Indigenous policing will run out as early as this month
Some First Nations chiefs in Northern Ontario are warning that funds for Indigenous policing will run out as early as this month if an impasse in negotiations with the federal government is not resolved.
Late last month, the political leadership representing more than 30 Ontario First Nations, which are served by two of these forces – the Treaty Three Police Service and the UCCM Anishnaabe Police – declared states of emergency over the impasse. They say their funds to provide policing in these communities are rapidly dwindling.
The Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario launched legal actions in Federal Court and at the Canadian Human Rights Commission this spring in support of the affected communities, saying that First Nations police forces have long considered the government’s bargaining stance to be a “take-it-or-leave-it” tactic.
“People in the community don’t want the OPP here,” said Chief Patsy Corbiere, Tribal Chair of the United Chiefs and Councils of Mnidoo Mnising, which declared a state of emergency on May 31 about policing for six First Nations on Manitoulin Island. The UCCM Anishnaabe Police Service, which serves the six First Nations on Manitoulin, has been battling problems involving gang members, illegal drugs and overdoses, Ms. Corbiere said. The force “will not have sufficient funding to continue operating,”It said that the Manitoulin Island communities “will not accept culturally inappropriate” police forces as a replacement.28 First Nations in Northwestern Ontario, also declared a state of emergency.
The emergency declaration by the First Nations on Manitoulin Island alleges that government officials are “deliberately allowing FNIPP funding agreements to expire in order to force Indigenous communities to accept Canada’s discriminatory terms.”
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