Grants and Contributions

The project aims to enhance community-based policing principles and the working relationship between the communities and the RCMP. Currently, the program provides the communities with an additional mechanism to enhance community safety and engage in crime prevention initiatives at the local level. The positions can also support the local RCMP detachments by addressing low-risk responses to community concerns, including incidents stemming from social issues, such as, addictions and mental health. Being members of the local Indigenous community, CSOs can act as a liaison between the local community members and the RCMP to ensure police response considers cultural considerations and language barriers. The role of the CSO is not intended to be utilized as a replacement for core policing functions; rather, it is an extension of NL and Nunatsiavut government's commitment to safer communities.

The United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin Police Services (UCCM) provides policing services to the six UCCM First Nation communities located on Manitoulin Island and one on Highway 6, spanning over 140km. The total population of the UCCM Anishnaabe Police Service area is estimated to around 2,000 people. The police service also provides policing support to neighbouring communities.

The Treaty Three Police Service (T3PS) provides policing services to approximately 25,000 people, across 55,000 square miles of land in Northwestern Ontario and parts of Southeastern Manitoba. T3PS provides policing services for 23 of the 28 First Nation communities in the Treaty #3 territory. This agreement will provide funding for 119 officers starting April 1, 2024, including 1 Chief of Police.

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This agreement concerns the renewal of a tripartite contribution agreement between the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario, and Anishinabek Police Governing Authority for the Anishinabek Police Service (APS). APS provides policing services to 16 communities throughout Ontario. The total on-reserve population served is approximately 9,400 people. The majority of costs under the agreement are cost-shared between Canada and Ontario at a 52% federal/48% provincial ratio. However, the agreement also includes 100% federal funding for 3 officers for the delivery of policing services on the former Camp Ipperwash lands. This funding is provided by the Department of National Defence via a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding with PS that is in effect to 2029. The term of the contribution agreement is 12 months, based on an agreement between Canada, Ontario and the legal firm representing the Anishinabek Police Governing Authority.

The funds provided by the Department of National Defense (DND) for the provision of policing services on Former Camp Ipperwash. These lands were appropriated from the First Nation of the Chippewas and Kettle and Stony Point in 1942 to create Camp Ipperwash. This First Nation is presently served by the Anishinabek Police Service (APS). Funding for three additional police officers is being provided by DND, through Public Safety Canada (PS) by Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to the APS as part of the 2024-2025 police services agreement (3105-24168). Since this funding is being provided at 100% by Canada, it must be accounted for separately from the principal funding for the police service agreement which is cost shared with the province of Ontario.

The Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service has been a self-administered police service since January 1994. In March 2001, the Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service was incorporated and is now represented by the Wikwemikong Police Service Board Corporation. Its mission is to deliver a community-based policing service and discharges its duties in a manner that is conducive to the needs, customs, culture, and rights of the community. This agreement funds 31 officers, including 1 Chief of Police, and they provide policing services for 1 community in Wikwemikong, Ontario, with an on-reserve population of approximately 2,700 people. The service conducts activities in addition to regular FNIPP policing, such as culturally based and trauma-informed workplace wellness for First Nations police and first responders, a mobile crisis response program, missing and murdered indigenous women fund programs, a social navigator, and community safety officers. They also support policing services in different communities across Manitoulin Island and surrounding communities.

The purpose of this Contribution is to provide funding for the purchase and the installation of a CCTV camera system, an access control system and a lighting system.

This agreement continues on the work began by the First Nations Police Governance Council in Engagement on First Nations Police Governance within the Legislative Framework (3105-23095 & 3105-23302). The purpose of this project is to continue the comprehensive review and engagement process with First Nations police governance boards in order to inform the co-development of federal First Nations police services legislation.