📋 Tender Overview
Albertas government is unilaterally funding 15 new police officers for the three First Nations police services in the province.The Blood Tribe Tsuutina Nation and Lakeshore Regional police services will each be able to hire five new police officers.Funding for Indigenous police services is usually paid through the First Nations and Inuit Policing Program. Under this federally administered program 52 per cent of funding is provided by the federal government and 48 per cent comes from the provinces.The federal government has frozen this program for more than two years as it completes an overhaul. Rather than wait for the federal government to reform the program Alberta will fund the total cost for 15 new police officers to address the underfunding of the First Nations police services in the province. Alberta is also providing an additional 150000 to address short-term gaps created by the wait for reforms along with a recruiting strategy for the new officers.Albertas government has called on the federal government to expedite its review. Alberta would also like to see the current program reopened to allow for increased funding for First Nations police services and to allow for applications from First Nations seeking to establish a new police service.
