RCMP ‘Aboriginal Community Constables’

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have announced a new ‘Aboriginal Community Constable’ program that will see ACCs deployed in Manitoba, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.   The pilot program is an effort by the RCMP to improve their poor relations with Indigenous peoples across the country, which includes scores of police killings, assaults, and sieges of Indigenous communities since its inception.  The following press releases are from the RCMP.