Status of Women committee  I think one of the main components is that you need to get involved. You need to go out, identify all your resources, indigenous organizations within your city or municipality, wherever you're residing, and reach out, make connections and attend their meetings. Go to any initiatives that they have, support them and, in turn, invite them to sit on your advisory committee to and have open, honest dialogue.

Status of Women committee  I think that would be a question for our senior leadership of the police service.

Status of Women committee  We have about 15 in total. I'd say that's about half.

Status of Women committee  We have a professional tenders bureau that oversees all complaints made to the service from the general public.

Status of Women committee  We do have a dedicated equity, diversity and inclusion sergeant. In partnership with this office, we identify any gaps and try to address them as best we can. As far as missing persons protocols and policies are concerned, Detective Lieverse is our most knowledgeable person on that.

Status of Women committee  Again, when I said that, that was me personally and not we as a service. We do work very hard to address all concerns within the city of Greater Sudbury, and we strongly utilize our indigenous advisory committee. When issues or concerns from the community are raised, we address them as they come in.

Status of Women committee  We had a grant for human trafficking. We had two conferences. We focused on frontline workers, on providing them with information on how to identify key signs where young boys or girls were being trafficked. We also had a presentation series throughout the summer where we invited, again, frontline workers from the child welfare agencies and school boards to presentations by our detectives in human trafficking to help them identify signs and to come up with help and resources for them to address those issues.

Status of Women committee  Clee?

Status of Women committee  They do not.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I would. Here's another one of the goals of the conference that we have coming up. If certain services do not have a dedicated indigenous liaison officer, I ask for a community response officer who can fulfill that role. We provide them with the information that they can take back to their service.

Status of Women committee  I believe what we do here in Sudbury can be used all across the province with other services. Every single new recruit who comes through this office gets cultural awareness training, which is focused on knowledge that they can use in certain situations at calls for service. We continue the training with our officers every year.

Status of Women committee  We partner with the N'Swakamok Native Friendship Centre and the Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre. We have acronyms, and I'm trying to remember the full name of the program. There's the Métis Nation, Compass child and family services and all of the indigenous child welfare agencies. There are numerous outreach programs—

Status of Women committee  Just to clarify, there are 22 first nations within a two-hour drive of Sudbury. We work directly with two first nations communities within our jurisdiction, Atikameksheng Anishnawbek and Wahnapitae First Nation. We have a great working relationship directly with the chiefs. As for working with counterparts in my position across the province, we are organizing our inaugural conference for indigenous liaison officers this coming May.

Status of Women committee  One of our youth programs.... Again, my focus is youth. I do a lot of programming for that. One of the longest running programs we have is the MKWA ride-along program where we engage indigenous high school students. They learn about policing and do a couple of ride-alongs, and then we bring in the elders.

Status of Women committee  I haven't read all of them, personally, but I will say that since the late 1990s, Sudbury police has played an active role in training our officers with the help of community so that we don't run into those situations here, within the city of Greater Sudbury. All of our new recruits come with me.