Summary
Delivering appropriate police services
to Aboriginal communities across Canada
is a difficult task. In the late 1980s
and throughout the 1990s, a number of
proposals and policies were put in place
to address Aboriginal peoples' concerns
with on-reserve policing procedures.
These policies aimed to contribute to
the improvement of social order, public
security and personal safety in
Aboriginal communities. This thesis
investigates the evolution and the
effectiveness of on-reserve Aboriginal
policing options, with a particular
focus on four First Nations
self-administered police services. This
analysis explores how historical
cultural definitions of justice have
impacted policing services to on-reserve
Aboriginal communities across the
country. The goal of the thesis is to
explore how the law enforcement
component of the justice system is
helping Aboriginal peoples to acquire
the tools to become self-sufficient and
self-governing through the establishment
of structures for the management and
administration of First Nations police
services.