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A Tyendinaga Police Service car. Indigenous police services in Canada are police forces under the control of a First Nation or Inuit government.. The power of Indigenous governments to establish independent police services varies, and only First Nations and Inuit communities governed by the Indian Act can establish their own police forces.
Police brutality is an instance or pattern of excessive and unwarranted force used against an individual or group of people. The Indigenous peoples of Canada include, as designated by the Canadian government, Inuit, Metis, and First Nations individuals and are officially considered Aboriginal peoples. [1]
Police have wide discretionary powers over surveillance of and intervention against individuals in public. Indigenous peoples are twice as likely to be chosen to be surveilled by, or intervened with, by police due to racist stereotypes that criminalize Indigenous people. This results in Indigenous people being over charged both in the volume ...
First Nations Police is a collective of Indigenous police forces in Ontario.FNP agencies are responsible for police duties concerning reserves in Ontario. First Nations Constables are appointed by the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police and have the powers of a Police Officer within the Province of Ontario for the purpose of carrying out the duties specified in their appointment.
The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service was formed on January 14, 1994 through a tri-partite agreement between the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation. The primary goal of the agreement was the establishment of an aboriginal agency to provide efficient, effective and culturally appropriate policing to the Nishnawbe-Aski ...
The Stlʼatlʼimx Tribal Police Service (STPS) is the police force for St'at'imc (or Stlʼatlʼimx, / s l æ t ˈ l iː ə m /) aboriginal peoples of British Columbia.The STPS is the only aboriginal police service in British Columbia.
Community safety — providing national coordination to "help Canadian communities and stakeholders respond to crime and build community resilience, promote the safety and security of Canadian communities and institutions, enhance the integrity of Canada’s borders, and support the provision of policing services to Indigenous communities."
A 2016 review of nine mid-sized and large Canadian police services found no significant differences existed in cost or service quality between regional and non-regional police forces, [6] and a literature review in 2015 found that larger police services are less effective and more expensive compared to mid-sized forces. [7]