Head of the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association, Lennard Busch of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation, says he hopes a bill that aims to make Indigenous policing an essential service will come with adequate funding. saskatchewan indigenous
“It really impacts the recruiting and retention of employees when the chief of police can’t categorically offer somebody a fulsome career in policing,” said Lennard Busch, a former police chief and member of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation in Saskatchewan.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We need to anchor our work in a relationship that is based on trust, on respect and on a recognition of the inherent right of Indigenous Peoples to self-determine when it comes to public faith,” Mendicino said. James Smith Cree Nation Chief Wally Burns has since pushed the federal government to help fund a policing service in his community.Advertisement 4RCMP continue to patrol the community, and the First Nation has taken it upon itself to install security cameras and have members monitor the area.“The consultation process that Indigenous people demand, it does take time,” Busch said.
“If you have five or six members, and one retires, one quits and one gets sick, then you are in great jeopardy of not being able to deliver services,” he said. “The recruitment of people is something that doesn’t happen overnight, either.” Over the same time period, rates of violent crime in communities with those policing agreements were found to have increased by nearly 32 per cent, while in the rest of Canada there was a nearly 16 per cent decrease.
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