Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to add one thing I had not said when we talked about the Community Constable By-law Program, is that the Department of MACA is intimately involved and is one of the partners of this successful program. This, as the Member says, can be seen as a way of helping the communities that do not have regular RCMP members. I did say there were a few of them. We can provide a list to the Members by tomorrow of where those communities are. We can help them get policing personnel increase in a sense, in that community. What you basically have is a program that provides training to individuals, perhaps by-law enforcement individuals in the community who are sent down on a four-week training course to the RCMP Academy in Regina, where they are taught things like basic law, self-defence, firearms and community policing. Initiates are then sent back to the community with enhanced training and a wider view of the world. In that sense that is what it does, it helps that community which does not have an RCMP officer and it also helps the communities enhance that portion, even though they might have RCMP officers.
Goo Arlooktoo on Committee Motion 16-13(5): Recommendation To Formulate A Strategic Plan For Policing In The Western Territory And Nunavut
In the Legislative Assembly on February 18th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 16-13(5): Recommendation To Formulate A Strategic Plan For Policing In The Western Territory And Nunavut
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 18th, 1998
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Goo Arlooktoo Baffin South
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