The report makes recommendations for policing throughout the report as well as 11 primary recommendations specific for police services
Alongside politics and history, culture and race, the alarming accounts of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is also a crime story, and Monday’s release of the final report of a national inquiry with moving stories from victims across Canada highlighted the violence.
, with many points having a subset of additional instructions. The changes would impact both the RCMP, as the national force, as well as provincial and municipal police services. • Government funding boost for an increase in recruitment of Indigenous Peoples to police services; when recruiting, police need to screen for racial, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation bias; and include the Indigenous people in the hiring process;
Both the RCMP and the Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale said the final report is being read and studied by policing officials. Both also added that recent changes have already been made in aid of some of the problems highlighted in the report. He said the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission is an independent agency to hear public complaints about RCMP members and is already establishing an external review model for sexual assault cases.
“My daughter Hilary went missing on Sept. 15, 2009,” said Pamela Fillier, from Esgenoopetitj First Nation in New Brunswick. “When I went to the police, they assumed she was out partying and did not look for her.
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