Media

Welcome to the media hub of FNCPA—your go-to source for official statements, news releases and visual content from the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association. Here, we share updates on key initiatives, Indigenous-led policing perspectives and progress in community safety, so media professionals, community members and partners can stay informed.

Whether you’re looking for downloadable resources, interview opportunities or our most recent announcements, you’ll find it here—all designed to support transparency, accountability and advancement of First Nations policing.

First Nations policing needs to be made an essential service, police chiefs tell AFN assembly

Read CBC News article, published Jul 07, 2022 4:24 PM ET https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/first-nations-policing-afn-aga-vancouver-1.6513653

Joint Position Paper of the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association (“FNCPA”), Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario (“IPCO”), and Quebec Association of First Nation and Inuit Police Directors (“QAFNIPD”)

The FNCPA, IPCO, and QAFNID are the recognized experts in Indigenous-led, Indigenous- centered policing and peacekeeping in Canada. Together, our organizations jointly represent 36 standalone First Nations police services, operating in more than 100 First Nations communities.

Annual General Meeting & Executive Elections

The Executive elections are scheduled this year and nominations will take place in the morning with voting to commence in the afternoon, or shortly thereafter.

Special Meeting –(Essential Services Legislation) May 16, 2022

The First Nation Chiefs of Police Association has scheduled a Special Meeting. First Nations Chiefs of Police Association, the Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario, and the L’Association des Directeurs de Police des Premières Nations et Inuits du Québec, are working together on a position paper regarding First Nations policing essential services legislation.

First Nations Chiefs of Police Association New Executive Committee

The First Nations Chiefs of Police Association held its Annual General Meeting on October 27, 2020, via Zoom teleconferencing. At the Annual General Meeting, as this year members held a General Election for the Executive positions, which is conducted every two (2) years according to FNCPA By-Laws. Your Executive Committee is: President Chief Jerel Swamp Rama […]

Executive Elections

This is to advise you that the First Nation Chiefs of Police Association Annual General Meeting & General Election Executive positions, has been scheduled to October 27, 2020.

FNCPA 2020 Conference Update

A message from the First Nations Chiefs of Police Executive

As you are aware, Canada is under a health advisory because of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus. The First Nations Chiefs of Police Association Executive will be following the recommendations and guidelines of public health officials. We are taking proactive measures to ensure the safety and well-being of our members and are postponing the FNCPA Conference & Awards to a later date. Thank you and take care.

12th Annual Officer Awards

The Executive has postponed the 12th Annual Officer Awards to a later date.

Statement on the Release of Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

The First Nations Chiefs of Police Association (FNCPA) acknowledges each of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people and their families, friends, and communities.

First Nations Chiefs of Police, Call For First Nations Policing To Be Entrenched As An Essential Service

At their Annual General Meeting in Toronto October 17-18, 2017 the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association (FNCPA) unanimously passed a resolution calling on the Government of Canada and its Provincial partners “to entrench First Nations Policing as an essential service,” provide adequate human resources, infrastructure, and operations and maintenance resources, and “sufficient, predictable and sustained funding that meets the unique needs of each department.”