Probably one of the most critical things is including us indigenous people in the actual design of how you do policing and how it gets delivered, because if we're not part of the design and then part of the governance of the delivery of it, then we don't actually have a say in the results or outcomes.
The other thing is the need for civilian oversight as a really critical way to conduct evaluation of these activities to demonstrate the actual results of what is coming out of policing to promote fundamental change or improvement in indigenous communities.
You can keep track of numbers, but it's really about how that is contributing to the reduction of racism and how it is contributing to safe resolutions of very difficult issues that face people in our communities.
Our people on and off reserve live in poverty and live with poor health and always end up being the ones who have interactions with the police for whatever reason. The majority of those cases don't end up with a positive outcome. We need to really figure out a way to produce outcomes from interactions with police that are actually good things.
It was apparent when we did have an indigenous policing regime that the indigenous police officers and the governance of the policing really did care about the community. They went out of their way to enforce the laws but also worked towards the betterment and improvement of the community and the people.
Those are things that are critical in terms of any go-forward strategy that is developed.