Opaskwayak Cree Nation shifts police service from RCMP to Manitoba First Nations Police Service
Opaskwayak Cree Nation is transferring its policing services from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to the Manitoba First Nations Police Service.
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Posted: Apr 08, 2021 5:01 PM CT | Last Updated: April 8
The Manitoba First Nations Police Service will take over policing in Opaskwayak Cree Nation, effective April 12.(Manitoba First Nations Police)
Opaskwayak Cree Nation is transferring its policing services from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to the Manitoba First Nations Police Service.
The change will take effect at 8 a.m. April 12.
The First Nations police service will be the investigating police service for all calls for service once the change takes effect.
Manitoba police watchdog lays no charges against dog handler whose dog bit 2 people during arrest
Two people, a man and a woman, were arrested and bitten by the police dog, and both were sent to hospital in Portage La Prairie. The bite seriously injured the woman s left leg and it required surgery, the report says.
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Both people were sent to hospital; one of them required surgery for their injuries, says the IIU
CBC News ·
Posted: Mar 08, 2021 5:52 PM CT | Last Updated: March 8
The RCMP dog handler became the subject of the investigation, according to the final report released by the IIU Monday.(CBC)
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The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba (IIU) says that an RCMP dog handler did nothing wrong when their dog bit two people during an arrest last summer.
On August 13, 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) advised the IIU of an incident that occurred on Sandy Bay First Nation where two individuals needed medical treatment after being bitten by a police service dog during the execution of a search warrant.
RCMP and Manitoba First Nations Police (MFNP) officers were responding to a tip that a suspect was trafficking methamphetamine from a camper located on Sandy Bay First Nation, the IIU says. Several people, who police believed could be armed, fled the scene, running into dense bush when police arrived.