Indigenous police services face barriers over funding structures

After the deadly mass stabbings in Saskatchewan, questions are being raised over how Indigenous communities are policed. Heather Yourex-West visited the Tsuut’ina Nation in Alberta to see how its police force operates, how it can be a model for other Indigenous communities, and what’s a barrier to more of them having their own police department.

• Ottawa’s underfunding of Indigenous policing amounts to discrimination, services say
• Why don’t more Indigenous communities have locally-administered police service?
• Federal and Saskatchewan governments sign agreement with First Nations regarding policing