Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll let Staff Sergeant How speak in a moment. I can speak for the officers around here. We go to an awful lot of wellness checks. I agree that it would be very nice to have a mental health worker come along with us, but unfortunately, in a lot of the rural communities that we

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Unfortunately, I won't be able to answer your question on that. I don't have any experience with it. I can get our headquarters to provide you with some information, though.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Regardless of who is paying—what we call a collator—or who is funding your position, the role and responsibility of every officer is to uphold the various statutes regardless of whether you're federally funded or provincially funded or municipally fu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the opportunity. As Staff Sergeant How said, we have hundreds of thousands of interactions with the general public each day or year. The only things that seem to get publicized are the one or two that go negatively. There are a multitude of good stories being tol

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For example, in our communities with community tripartite agreements, it's having enough resources for them to go into the communities to have that positive interaction. For a lot of my frontline officers, the only opportunity they truly get to go on reserve is when they're respo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One thing that the RCMP is excellent at is using workarounds when there are problems within a community. We truly want to try to come up with a solution in working in conjunction with community members. For example, when we have a banishment law that has been passed, or even if

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Every community or every detachment is different. In some of our smaller detachments, I've had the opportunity and a little more time, so I could personally go out and do that proactive work. A place like Campbell River is a much busier location, and time to go to the reserve is

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's an excellent question. In fact, that has happened here in my home detachment, where all three of the first nation communities have put up roadblocks to entering into the community. Although there is no bylaw in place right now to say that these are enforceable, the RCMP

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would have to pass on the training that's going on at Depot right now to our headquarters, because it's been 25 years since I've actually gone through it. However, we do have online training here. I know that nationally, each officer must take a first nations online course. O

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I've been policing now for 25 years, and in every one of the detachments I've served, I've had the privilege of working with first nation communities, both treaty and non-treaty. This has afforded me the opportunity to work with first nations on enact

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I've stated, in each contract province in which the RCMP is the police of jurisdiction, there are over 100 statutes and regulations that we're expected to enforce. Unfortunately, not all of those regulations or statutes are applicable on reserve. I'll give an example. Here i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know if Staff Sergeant How wants to touch base, but I can quickly speak. We do have some training, but one of the biggest things, as I said, is those individual relationships. Yes, we do transfer around, and that's just the nature of our work. The hope is that the trust

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Again, if Staff Sergeant How wants to jump in at any time, feel free. Our mandate from a provincial standpoint is to enforce all federal and provincial statutes within the provinces that we're contractually obligated to provide policing services to,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Some of the problems that I personally experienced were due to the fact that we transfer around a lot. As has been mentioned by Staff Sergeant How and me, relationship building is imperative, so when detachment commanders or personnel in the detachments move frequently, it takes

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Again, each community is different. Not all communities have signed agreements with regard to COVID-19 and not every community even has a community tripartite agreement, a CTA. The communities that I serve do have that agreement in place, for the CTA at least, but we do not have