Wikwemikong Police Service Board
$9,465,509.07 CAD
- Department
- Public Safety Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2024-2025
- Agreement period
- April 1, 2024 – March 31, 2026
- Reference
- ps-sp:088-2024-2025-Q2-00003
Published purpose
The Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service has been a self-administered police service since January 1994. In March 2001, the Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service was incorporated and is now represented by the Wikwemikong Police Service Board Corporation. Its mission is to deliver a community-based policing service and discharges its duties in a manner that is conducive to the needs, customs, culture, and rights of the community. This agreement funds 31 officers, including 1 Chief of Police, and they provide policing services for 1 community in Wikwemikong, Ontario, with an on-reserve population of approximately 2,700 people. The service conducts activities in addition to regular FNIPP policing, such as culturally based and trauma-informed workplace wellness for First Nations police and first responders, a mobile crisis response program, missing and murdered indigenous women fund programs, a social navigator, and community safety officers. They also support policing services in different communities across Manitoulin Island and surrounding communities.
In plain English AI-generated
This federal contribution funds the Wikwemikong Police Service to provide community-based policing for an Ontario First Nations community, including 31 officers and additional programs such as mobile crisis response and workplace wellness for Indigenous police and first responders.
Category: Other Primarily funds activity in Canada
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