Underfunded and under-resourced, Indigenous police services struggle with MMIWG cases – CBC

‘The First Nations Policing Program sets us up to fail,’ says Dwayne Zacharie, police chief in Kahnawake

Oct 30, 2019

Chronic underfunding and a lack of resources and access to training has hampered the ability of Indigenous police forces to properly investigate violence against Indigenous women and girls.

It’s one of the many findings of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and something Melanie Morrison knows all too well.

The Mohawk woman of Kahnawake, Que., has been working over the last decade to improve how the Kahnawake Mohawk Peacekeepers, a First Nations police force serving her community, handles MMIWG cases after she felt her sister’s disappearance was mishandled.

Morrison’s younger sister Tiffany, 24, was last seen on June 18, 2006 in the LaSalle area of Montreal, before getting into a taxi with a man. She never made it home.

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