ABORIGINAL POLICING
BRANCH
- Develops and evaluates practical and culturally sensitive policing
services that are acceptable to Aboriginal peoples.
- Consults with national Aboriginal organizations so that policies
and programs reflect the needs of Aboriginal communities.
- Promotes and encourages the recruitment of Aboriginal people into
the RCMP
- Develops and sponsors proactive and preventive programs specific
to Aboriginal communities, including:
RCMP Aboriginal Youth Training Program (AYTP)
- Provides Aboriginal young people with 17
weeks of summer employment, including three weeks training at Regina,
Saskatchewan.
- After returning to a detachment near their home, students
work under the direct supervision and guidance of a regular member
of the RCMP
- Major funding partner is Aboriginal Policing Directorate, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.
- Number of candidates each year is dependent on the
amount of funding.
RCMP/Community Suicide Intervention Program
- Begun in 1994, funding for this program ended in March 1999.
- RCMP
seeking alternative funding to continue.
- Training consists of
a 5-day program that includes: two days of suicide intervention
training; a one day healing/talking circle, a component
of Aboriginal spirituality; training in critical incident stress
debriefing; and community development.
- A community-based approach that links existing national training
resources to people and organizations at the community level. Community
partnerships are essential to this process.
- More than 1240 people received
training in 49 workshop sessions in locations such as: Happy Valley-Goose
Bay, Iqaluit, Terrace, Puvirnituq, Haines-Junction and Inuvik .
- In
1996, the Canadian Mental Health Association awarded the RCMP the
C.M. Hincks Award for achievement in the field of mental
health.
- Aboriginal Policing Branch is spearheading a
project to adapt the program into a peer-suicide approach to confront
the high incidence of youth suicides in Aboriginal communities.
- Initiative will include
youth training and peer support and a pilot for evaluation purposes
in six schools across the country.
- The five-year funding
for this new phase provided by the National Crime Prevention
Centre.
The Commissioner's National Aboriginal Advisory Committee
(CNAAC)
- Meets twice yearly.
- Comprised
of 13 Aboriginal people who meet in various communities across the
country.
- Mandate
is "to provide
a forum for the continuing discussion of recruiting, training and
community relations with respect to Aboriginal people, intercultural
relations and other related matters that may emerge from time to
time."
Community Justice Forums
(CJF)
- Community-based approach that brings together all people touched
by a crime, including family and friends of both victim and disputant.
- Parties discuss the incident and negotiate
a resolution.
- Law enforcement agencies play an important
role through the judicious use of police discretion.
- RCMP has become an active partner with Justice Canada, through
a commitment to the Aboriginal Justice Strategy.
- A core group of members and community people from across
Canada have been trained to facilitate the forums and
set in motion the restorative justice process in the police community.
- Training now a component of the Cadet Training Program.
- Canadian Police
College and the RCMP developing a package to make these accessible
to all police organizations.
RCMP First Nations Community
Policing Service (FNCPS)
- First Nations Policing Policy (FNPP) introduced
by the federal government to provide First Nations (including
Inuit communities) access to police services that are culturally
appropriate and accountable.
- The Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
administers the
FNPP.
- Under the policy, the federal, provincial/territorial
governments, and the communities work together to negotiate community
tripartite agreements for police services that meet the particular
needs of each community.
- The RCMP-FNCPS model incorporates the principles and objectives
of the FNPP, including:
- service levels equivalent to
non-First Nations communities;
- compatibility and sensitivity
to First Nations culture and beliefs;
- accommodating local variations in policing
needs; and
- a framework that allows
for transition to an independent First Nations-administered
police service if the community desires.
- The RCMP
will ensure communities are involved from the start
in the design, implementation and on-going delivery of their police
services.
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