NAPS officers let down by lack of standards: NDP

There should be one standard for all police officers in the province, according to Timmins-James Bay MPP Gilles Bisson.
Bisson, speaking in the House of Commons about Nishnawbe-Aski Polie Service, said officers off-reserve follow strict regulations; standards which don’t apply on reserve.
“In the case of Nishnawbe-Aski policing, I’m being told that the Police Services Act does not apply, which means to say that police officers are having to go into situations of domestic calls, as far as domestic disputes, into various investigations, where they have to be alone and don’t have to have a partner with them, as is mandated under the Police Services Act for municipal police forces or the Ontario provincial police,” Bisson said.
Bisson said NAPS officers are being placed in vulnerable positions.
“I wonder why in a province as rich as Ontario, a province that puts itself out to be one of the best places in Canada to live, that we have a situation where people living on reserve have one standard when it comes to the services provided by the province of Ontario and a second standard for everybody else living off reserve,” he said.