First Nation and Inuit Policing Program (FNPP): Terms and Conditions

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE

The program aims to enhance the effectiveness of policing services in First Nation and Inuit Communities and to support the public safety needs of Indigenous communities through professional, dedicated and culturally responsive policing.

FNPP STREAMS

Stream 1 - Contribution Agreement where the community establishes its own police service is called a Self-Administered Police Service Agreement (SA).

Stream 2 – Contribution Agreement where the community contracts policing services from another police service other than the RCMP is called Municipal Quadripartite Agreement (MQA).

Stream 3 – Contribution Agreement for Other Policing Initiatives. The Government of Canada can provide financial contributions of up to 100% of eligible expenditures.

ELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES FOR STREAM 3

• Pay and benefits for individuals related to the project being undertaken;  
• Administrative expenses, which must be defined in the agreement and shall not exceed 15% of the total value of the contribution agreement;
• Information technology and communications equipment and associated expenses;
• Expenses necessary to fulfil the roles and responsibilities associated with members of a community participation/ advisory body, including: travel, training, room rentals, and honoraria;
• Equipment, supplies and materials;
• Expenses related to travel for individuals associated with the project;
• Training, recruitment, educational, and career development activities, including cultural awareness training;
• Rent and utilities;
• Policing infrastructure expenditures when a police facility is owned by a First Nation or Inuit community, a provincial, territorial, regional or local / municipal government or authority, as defined as:
• renovation of an existing police facility;
• onsite construction of a new, permanent police facility; and
• acquisition and installation of a modular police facility built offsite;
• Professional fees related to the project objectives;
• Expenses related to communications, advertising and outreach material;
• Expenses associated with the formal evaluation of the project;
• Expenses associated with the evaluation or assessment of the activities of a First Nation or Inuit police service that receives a financial contribution pursuant to these Terms and Conditions;
• Expenses associated with preliminary work required before a new police service can be established, including the development of standing orders, policies, guidelines and procedures for operating the police service;
• Honoraria;
• Ceremonial items; and hospitality in the form of food and drink, excluding alcohol, for gatherings, training sessions where the majority of participants are from Aboriginal communities, and ceremonies.

ELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES FOR STREAM 1 & 2

Stream 1 – SAs  Stream 2 – Police Officers from an Existing Police Service other than the RCMP

SIMILARITIES

• Pay and benefits for employees such as police officers, special constables or other appointed individuals; and, permanent, temporary or casual civilian staff, including professional, technical, custodial, clerical and administrative employees;
• Administrative expenses, as defined in the agreement and to not exceed 15% of the total value of the contribution agreement;
• Information technology and communications equipment and associated expenses.
• Police equipment;
• Transportation expenses and related equipment;
• Expenses related to employee travel to and from remote locations;
• Expenses related to prisoners’ keep and escorts;
• Training and recruitment expenses;
• Rent subsidies for housing of officers, where applicable;
• Police facility costs;
• Insurance premiums for general liability insurance for policing operations, and vehicles and other means of transportation operated by or on behalf of the police service;
• Professional fees related to the preparation of financial statements.

ELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES EXCLUSIVE TO STREAM 1 – SA

DIFFERENCES

• Expenses necessary to fulfil the roles and responsibilities of the police governing authority, including: travel, training, room rentals, and honoraria;
• Legal costs related to the operations of the police service.

INELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES – ALL STREAM

Ineligible expenditures for all streams include, but are not limited to, costs related to amortization, depreciation, and interest on loans; legal costs related to the negotiation of the agreement and any dispute related to the agreement or the funding received under the agreement; profit, defined as an excess of revenues over expenditures; and, costs for specialized policing services, such as ERT, Canine Units and Forensic Services.

RCMP AS SERVICE PROVIDERS: COMMUNITY TRIPARTITE AGREEMENTS (CTAs)

Community contracts policing services from the RCMP:

• Contingent of police officers from the RCMP provide dedicated policing to community.
• Community participates through community advisory bodies which include community representatives, members, to help inform and establish priorities.
• Agreement is meant to enable level of policing that supplements level of provincial / territorial policing.  
• CTAs are made pursuant to bilateral Framework Agreements between Canada and a PT.

COST SHARING, ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS, AND STACKING LIMITS

Cost Sharing

The FNPP is a cost shared program where funding comes from Federal Government (52%) and provinces and territories (48%).

Eligible Recipients

• A provincial, territorial, regional or local / municipal government or authority, including:
• A “council of the band” within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Indian Act, R.S.C. 1985, c.I-5; and
• A government of a First Nation and Inuit community established by an act of Parliament or a legislature;
• A police service or a police governing authority (also known as a board, a police board, a designated board, or a police commission);
• An association or a not-for-profit legal person; and
• A university or another post-secondary educational institution.

Stacking Limits

Total Government Assistance (federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal assistance for the same eligible expenditures) shall not exceed 100% of the eligible expenditures.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Each stream of the FNPP has its own set of assessment criteria; each stream shares similar criteria and only a few are exclusive to them. Consequently, the assessment criteria is dependent to the priority and objective of the funding initiative. Some of the assessment criteria includes but is not limited to, ensuring that the community has local support from the First Nation or Inuit government that has jurisdiction over the community and the land occupied by the community; support from their relevant jurisdiction, officer-to-population ratio; community location (including distance and access to the nearest service centre), population size, total rate of crime, violent crimes, sexual assault, assaults crimes; degree to which the project is seen as a promising practice or an innovative approach in the area of First Nation or Inuit policing, linkages of the project, activities and/or expected results with Public Safety Canada or Government of Canada priorities. For further details please see the following sections of the FNPP Terms and Conditions:  11.6.2; 12.6.2; & 13.6.2

First Nation and Inuit Policing Program (FNPP): PROGRAM STATUS

TOMBSTONE DATA

Created in: 1991

Total Envelope: $291.2 M over five years (ongoing), including an annual increase of 2.75% to address inflation.

Source(s) of Funds: $102 million from Budget 2017 over five years to maintain funding for policing in First Nation and Inuit communities.
In January 2018, the Government of Canada announced an additional investment of $189.2 million over five years for policing in First Nations and Inuit communities currently served under the FNPP.

This additional funding includes up to $144.4 million, starting in 2018–19, to cover the gaps that have emerged between the costs of policing and the level of funding under current FNPP agreements; as well as up to $44.8 million, starting in 2019–20, for up to 110 additional officer positions in communities currently served under the FNPP.

Number of Agreements in Place: All 185 FNPP agreements were amended as a result of the additional funding of $144.4 million. In order to allocate the $44.8 million for additional officers positions under the FNPP, agreement holders were invited for the first time in the history of the FNPP to apply for additional officers in their community(ies) through an application process that launched in September 2018.

PS received 113 applications, and 60 applications were approved. The process yielded in providing 75 new officers for communities with a Self-Administered Police Service (SA); and, 35 new officers for communities with a Community Tripartite Agreement (CTA). This represents a total of 110 officers.

RENEWAL OF FNPP AGREEMENTS

Renewal of the Self-Administered Police Services (SAs)

• Since January 18, 2018, Public Safety has renewed 35 out of 36 self-administered police service agreements across the country. 
• Length of agreements vary from one to 10 years, dependent on the request from the community. 

Renewal of Community Tripartite Agreements (CTAs)

• Work is underway with provinces and territories to finalize the language in bilateral framework agreements.
• Once finalized, CTAs will be renewed in fiscal year 2020-2021

FNPP AGREEMENTS - CURRENT STATUS

Total of 185 FNPP Agreements representing 457 communities in Canada

Self-Administered Police Service Agreements (SAs) à Community establishes its own police service

There are a total of 36 SAs, representing 154 communities across the country, at different stages of renewal:

• 35 SA agreements currently in place. 1 agreement in Province of Quebec expired as of March 31, 2020 and requires longer-term agreement.

• 1 expired as of March 31, 2020 and negotiations for its renewal are underway
• 5 expire in 2021
• 14 expire in 2023
• 1 expires in 2025
• 12 expire in 2028
• 2 expire in 2029 and 1 expires in 2030

Municipal Quadripartite Agreements à Community contracts policing services from another police service
provider other than the RCMP

There are a total of 3 Municipal Quadripartite Agreement across the country:

• 1 expired as of March 31, 2019 but a new 2019-2028 agreement has been signed by Canada as of March 31, 2020

• 1 expires in 2021
• 1 expires in 2025

Framework Agreements (FAs) & Community Tripartite Agreements (CTAs) à Community contracts policing services from the RCMP

There are 10 FAs and 135 CTAs representing 280 communities:

• Discussions are ongoing to renew both framework agreements and community tripartite agreements.

• 5 of the FAs were extended to March 2021 and the other 5 have goneinto auto-extension
  Ontario First Nations Policing Agreement (OFNPA)

• OFNPA – 7 out of 20 communities have signed service level agreements.

FNPP 110 OFFICERS POSITIONS – AMENDMENTS TO FNPP AGREEMENTS

$44.8 million starting in 2019-2020 for up to 110 additional officers.

SAs

• 28 out of a total of 36 SAs are being amended to reflect the number of additional officers. To date, 24 out of 28 agreements have been amended.
• 3 agreements in Alberta have not yet been amended for additional officers.
• 1 entente au Québec a été modifiée pour ajouter 1 officier en 19-20 mais un nouvel accord est nécessaire pour ajouter le 2e officier supplémentaire en 20-21.

OFNPA

There are 20 communities served under the OFNPA. To date, 7 out of 20 service-level agreements (SLA) under the OFNPA have been signed.

• The 7 signed SLAs include all of the additional officers under the OFNPA
• The remaining 13 SLAs are currently awaiting community signatures

CTAs and FAs

There is a total of 135 CTAs, for which 24 will be amended to reflect the number of additional officers.

• 6 out of a total of 10 FAs will be amended to reflect the number of additional officers.
• To date, 3 out of 6 FA amendments have been signed for additional officers (BC, Nova Scotia, Yukon).
• AB was supposed to add officers FY 2019-20 but didn’t, and SK and NWT are supposed to have additional officers this FY but have not amended for them yet.

FNPP PARTNERSHIP WITH PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES

• The FNPP is a shared FPT responsibility as it is a cost-shared program, where the Federal Government provides 52% and provinces and territories provide 48% of the funds.
• Ability to cost-share FNPP agreements must be confirmed before entering into an agreement.
•  Decisions and recommendations regarding the FNPP are made in collaboration with the provinces and territories.

The FNPP FPT WG was established to provide a forum/mechanism for officials-level discussion, information-sharing and development of options regarding the FNPP.

Date modified:

2021-09-13