Our Team

Edward “Lennard” Busch is of Sioux ancestry and is a member of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation in Saskatchewan. He has been a police officer for 41 years. Len commenced his policing career with the Manitoba Police Commission as a Native Special Constable at South Indian Lake, Manitoba in 1978. He joined the RCMP in 1980 and served for 34 years doing general duty policing, drug enforcement, intelligence, undercover operations, protective operations, and as an instructor at the RCMP Academy.

Commissioned to the rank of Inspector in 1999 he served as the Officer in Charge of National Aboriginal Policing in Ottawa. He then served as the Governor General’s Security Liaison Officer for 3 years and in 2006 was posted to the Canadian Police College as the Director of the Professional Development Centre for Aboriginal Policing. In 2012 Len became the Director of the Police Leadership Centre.

In the fall of 2014 Len retired from the RCMP and became the Chief of Police at the File Hills First Nations Police Service in Saskatchewan, which is currently the only self-administered First Nations Police Service in the Province. He is currently also the Vice-President (West) for the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association.

Len retired from the File Hills Police in December, 2021 and became the Executive Director for the FNCPA in January 2022.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (306) 331-6199

Karen Haines is of Ojibway ancestry and is a member of the Sandy Bay First Nation in Manitoba. She has worked in administration and finance for 30 years. Karen started her career within her community until 2006, then joined Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council. She brings her experience with Band administration, as well as her time working with the DOTC Executive and Community Chiefs at the Tribal Council.

During her tenure at DOTC, an opportunity to work with the Dakota Ojibway Police Service arose, (now known as Manitoba First Nations Police Service) where she engaged in the opportunity to support policing. As the Executive Assistant / Finance for the FNCPA, she began to work with FNCPA under the auspices of what was previously arranged with MFNPS in 2011. FNCPA required administrative support, and Karen stepped forward and embraced the role.

From her college years to now, Karen has trained in administration, finance, policy, research, and various others administrative areas, to support her work in the political and policing fields. She has been nominated for Award in Manitoba Association of Chiefs of Police 2023, Awarded Distinguished Services Recognition by FNCPA in 2023, Distinguished Services Recognition by MFNPS in 2017 and 2021, and has received several awards from 1990 to current year.

As well as her duties with the MFNPS and FNCPA, Karen has also contributed her personal time with several committees in her community (Sandy Bay Treaty Days, Pow Wow, All Nations Tribal Days) as well as participating with other associations when requested, and traditional ceremony. She is a professional coordinator and has 30-years’ experience coordinating events, conferences, and is an amateur photographer.

Main: (204) 856-5370
Fax: (204) 856-5389
Email: [email protected]

Hélène Roberge is honoured and humbled to be able to join the First National Chiefs of Police Association (FNCPA) at this time in her life and career. She is very excited to join the Association and looking forward to working with its members. She has just recently retired from the Government of Canada, where she worked for over 30 years. She is fully bilingual in English and French. 

Hélène enjoyed a wonderful career in the government and even more so in the last 20 years, where she worked for the Canadian Police College (CPC/Royal Canadian Mounted Police). 

She started there as an Instructional Designer in 2003 and in 2013 moved to the leadership side and took over the management of the Executive Development in Policing program (EDP) for 11 years. She delivered the 10‑month program each year, including 3 international programs with the Hong Kong Police Force (last one in 2018-19). She particularly enjoyed being able to work directly with police executives and being able to impact their leadership development journey. 

Over the years, she has also continued her professional development. She completed a master’s degree in Education in 2006 and obtained several certifications, namely in Insights Discovery in 2020, EQ-i 2.0 in 2020 (inc. the 360), Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in 2015 (including the Type 2), Prosci Change Management Certification in 2020. More recently, she is in the process of completing the professional level of the Integral Coaching Canada program. So far, the managing of the EDP program has been the highlight of her career, where she enjoyed working directly with police leaders from across Canada and internationally.

Previously to EDP, during her time as a designer at CPC, she worked on several major design and development projects, such as the re-design of the Major Case Management course to the Team Commander version still used today and also the brand-new Organized Crime Course (including the Indigenous policing version), which for both these projects involved extensive needs assessment studies across Canada working with several subject matter stakeholders.

Hélène and her husband love to travel and spend time with their friends and family. They continue to enjoy hiking in Canada and all around the world. They also enjoy curling in the winter in Ottawa and in the summer have recently started lawn bowling. 

Email:    [email protected]
Cell        (613) 618-9254