Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ...
by neom on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:45PM
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Many reserves do indeed have their own police forces internally. In fact, when I was in high school, a Fort Frances City police officer pulled over a First Nations police officer who had their emergency signals activated, for crossing a double line, on a provincial highway (just outside city limits) It was a shit show. My father was involved in mediating that, there was a real world consequence to that officer not being able to respond to that call, and the city officer admitted he was concerned with making a jurisdictional point (even though, even if he was technically right, he also ended up being technically wrong, the road had become provincial). In another instance, a first nations officer got into an accident responding to a call on the reserve with their emergency signals activated (ran a light iirc), at the time, they were within city limits, so the city decided to issue them a traffic violation and charge them.
First Nations deal with the (federal) Crown, and so the RCMP is the federal law enforcement agency. Unless (a/each) First Nation wants to run their own police force internally?
But there are entire regions that don't do that because of the costs involved, and so they contract out to the RCMP to be the provincial (and even municipal) police.
The larger provinces (ON, QC) have their own services, and they are also contracted out to the smaller municipalities. Not sure how provincial police would work (or not) on the reserves.