Tristan Black Water, a constable with the Blood Tribe Police Service, is grateful he gets to serve the community he was raised in.
Tristan Black Water, a constable with the Blood Tribe Police Service, is grateful he gets to serve the community he was raised in. For Tristan Black Water, watching police officers at work was inspiring. So, once he was ready, he decided to join the services and was sworn in as a constable in 2022.Growing up in this community, I know that everybody is talented in their own way. Everybody has something to offer to this world. I love where I'm from," he said.
"On the reserve, we do have a drug problem. They have everlasting effects on, not only the individual but you know, their family. It's tough to see that," Black Water said. The BTPS is one of 36 self-administered First Nations or Inuit police forces across the country — Alberta has three.The Blood Tribe Police Service has to make do with limited resources, according to Chief Grant Buckskin.
Police chief Grant Buckskin said it's tricky for police officers to monitor such a 'large area,' especially when they have limited resources to work with. Cpl. Tammy Dodginghorse, who has been with the Tsuut'ina Nation Police Service for 28 years, believes connecting with members of the local community is a big part of the job.
The Tsuut’ina, west of Calgary, is one of just 36 First Nations in Canada with its own police service.With a focus on community policing, the service has expanded rapidly over the past decade, but with Calgary pushing up against its borders, the complexity of their work has also increased."If they're in trouble or if they need something, you know, at that very moment, that's important to them. So that has to be important to me as well.""We have a population of 1.3, 1.
"It's very hard to compete in a very competitive a profession like policing and say our salaries are less, our pension is incredibly less, our health benefits, our medical benefits, our dental benefits are inferior, significantly inferior comparatively," he said.
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