NCJ Number
142283
Journal
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Gazette Volume: 55 Issue: 2 Dated: (1993) Pages: 8-14
Date Published
1993
Length
4 pages
Annotation
The Canadian Ministry of the Solicitor General, along with the Assembly of First Nations (native peoples), sponsored a National Workshop on First Nations' Policing, held in Calgary in 1992. Participants represented First Nations' communities, police services, and Federal and provincial governments.
Abstract
Under the First Nations' Policing Policy, approved by the Canadian Cabinet in 1991, the government must strive to improve safety and security in First Nations' communities and to make police services more accountable to community needs. A policing strategy for each community will be worked out in a tripartite agreement between Federal, provincial, and territorial governments; the available policing options include stand-alone First Nations' forces organized on a regional or local basis and special units of First Nations' officers within non-First Nations' forces. The workshop brought together First Nations interested in implementing policing arrangements, with representatives of communities which already have such arrangements in place. Some of the other topics addressed by speakers included the Aboriginal Constable Program, police-community relations, community policing techniques, and funding.