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Title:
Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Agreement 2025-2026
Agreement Number:
26008
Agreement Value:
$32,434,081.03
Agreement Date:
Apr 1, 2025 - Mar 31, 2026
Description:
The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service will provide the day-to-day, local policing services to the Indigenous communities. This policing agreement will implement dedicated, professional, and culturally responsive policing services for the communities served by the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, through the funding of activities, equipment, and personnel required to carry out these services.
Organization:
Public Safety Canada
Expected Results:

Indigenous communities have access to the funding.

This funding will support policing in the 34 communities throughout northern Ontario.

Funded policing services are responsive to the needs and cultures of the First Nation and Inuit communities they serve.

Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) will provide culturally competent policing services specific to the needs of the 34 communities in Northern Ontario.

People living in First Nations and Inuit communities feel safe.

NAPS provides day to day policing to ensure the First Nations communities it serves feels safe.

Location:
Thunder Bay, Ontario, CA P7B 0E2
Reference Number:
088-2025-2026-Q3-00009
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Aboriginal recipient
Additional Information:

Project was preapproved to start April 1, 2025, although the agreement was signed November 13, 2025.

Recipient's Legal Name:
Nishnawbe-Aski Police Services Board
Program:
(FNIPP) First Nations and Inuit Policing Program
Program Purpose:

To enhance the effectiveness of policing services in First Nation and Inuit communities in terms of cultural relevance and responsiveness to the public safety need of communities.

To support policing services to First Nation and Inuit communities that are professional, dedicated and culturally responsive to the communities they serve.