The head of the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association says he hopes a federal bill in the works that aims to make Indigenous policing an essential service will come with adequate funding to ensure those forces can attract enough officers.
"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.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said in an interview with The Canadian Press earlier this month that Indigenous communities deserve "the same quality of policing" as others. The Sept. 4 stabbings left 11 dead and 18 injured at the First Nation, as well as in the nearby village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon.
This has led to one-third of the self-administered First Nation police services disbanding since the program started in 1991, Busch said. Program data from the department shows that from 2004 to 2018, those communities experienced a 3.5 per cent increase in crime, while there was a 28.5 per cent decrease across other communities.
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