Mass stabbings last fall in the James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan sparked renewed conversations about the need for Indigenous communities to take on their own policing
Across Canada, there are fewer than 40 police forces run by Indigenous communities serving their own members. Only one of them is in Saskatchewan, where the mass stabbings last fall in the James Smith Cree Nation sparked renewed conversations about the need for Indigenous communities to take on their own policing.First Nations policing modelIt took 40 minutes for the RCMP in Melfort, Sask., to respond to a call that a man was killing people on the small reserve in Northern Saskatchewan.
In 1991, Public Safety Canada came up with the funding model, now known as the First Nations and Inuit Policing Program , which has gone on to provide several billions in federal and provincial government funding toward policing of reserves. Colin found that of the 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan included in the FNIPP program, 45 of them opted for Option 1, expecting RCMP officers to spend time on reserve and get to know the people who live there. But senior Saskatchewan RCMP officials acknowledge the funds have almost entirely gone away from the promised community outreach and instead, toward standard policing with no focus on reserves.
But on the lone Saskatchewan force that signed up for Option 2, the five First Nations that are policed by their own File Hills First Nations Police Service have a force that is growing and is about to break ground on a $6.7-million headquarters in its territory.
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