Thank you, Chair.
I see it as being for us in Akwesasne. We have a police commission that's the operational component of the oversight of the policing services, and they are all community members, so there's a connection to our community at that level. We employ a community engagement officer who works directly with the community. He attends the schools, he goes to the events and he's in contact with our local social and health programs to ensure that policing is part of those events that are coming up. In our recruitment, our priority is indigenous members, some from our community and some from surrounding communities, but they are indigenous to us.
Then we have our capacity development component. As we mentioned earlier, we have a compliance office, and those officers have moved into policing. Then we filled the compliance officer program, but now that we have them under one umbrella, there's a connection for all of them. When we're employing our own people here, people from our community, the trust can be built and established with our members. I feel that when we're developing the laws that they will enforce, we then will have a stronger component to respecting the laws and those enforcing it. I'd like to see that our community laws are more of a compliance than an enforcement mechanism.
Thank you.