First Nations Policing: Terms and Conditions

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
The program aims to enhance the effectiveness of policing services in First Nation and Inuit Communities and to support the public safety needs of Indigenous communities through professional, dedicated and culturally responsive policing.

FNPP STREAMS

Stream 1 - Contribution Agreement where the community establishes its own police service is called a Self-Administered Police Service Agreement (SA).

Stream 2 – Contribution Agreement where the community contracts policing services from another police service other than the RCMP is called Municipal Quadripartite Agreement (MQA).

Stream 3 – Contribution Agreement for Other Policing Initiatives. The Government of Canada can provide financial contributions of up to 100% of eligible expenditures.

ELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES FOR STREAM 3
  • Pay and benefits for individuals related to the project being undertaken; 
  • Administrative expenses, which must be defined in the agreement and shall not exceed 15% of the total value of the contribution agreement;
  • Information technology and communications equipment and associated expenses;
  • Expenses necessary to fulfil the roles and responsibilities associated with members of a community participation/ advisory body, including: travel, training, room rentals, and honoraria;
  • Equipment, supplies and materials;
  • Expenses related to travel for individuals associated with the project;
  • Training, recruitment, educational, and career development activities, including cultural awareness training;
  • Rent and utilities;
  • Policing infrastructure expenditures when a police facility is owned by a First Nation or Inuit community, a provincial, territorial, regional or local / municipal government or authority, as defined as:
  • renovation of an existing police facility;
  • onsite construction of a new, permanent police facility; and
  • acquisition and installation of a modular police facility built offsite;
  • Professional fees related to the project objectives;
  • Expenses related to communications, advertising and outreach material;
  • Expenses associated with the formal evaluation of the project;
  • Expenses associated with the evaluation or assessment of the activities of a First Nation or Inuit police service that receives a financial contribution pursuant to these Terms and Conditions;
  • Expenses associated with preliminary work required before a new police service can be established, including the development of standing orders, policies, guidelines and procedures for operating the police service;
  • Honoraria;
  • Ceremonial items; and hospitality in the form of food and drink, excluding alcohol, for gatherings, training sessions where the majority of participants are from Aboriginal communities, and ceremonies.
ELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES FOR STREAM 1 & 2

Stream 1 – SAs

Stream 2 – Police Officers from an Existing Police Service other than the RCMP

SIMILARITIES

ELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES EXCLUSIVE TO STREAM 1 - SAs

DIFFERENCES
INELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES – ALL STREAMS

Ineligible expenditures for all streams include, but are not limited to, costs related to amortization, depreciation, and interest on loans; legal costs related to the negotiation of the agreement and any dispute related to the agreement or the funding received under the agreement; profit, defined as an excess of revenues over expenditures; and, costs for specialized policing services, such as ERT, Canine Units and Forensic Services.

RCMP AS SERVICE PROVIDERS: COMMUNITY TRIPARTITE AGREEMENTS (CTAs)

Community contracts policing services from the RCMP:

COST SHARING, ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS, AND STACKING LIMITS

Cost Sharing
The FNPP is a cost shared program where funding comes from Federal Government (52%) and provinces and territories (48%).

Eligible Recipients

Stacking Limits
Total Government Assistance (federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal assistance for the same eligible expenditures) shall not exceed 100% of the eligible expenditures.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Each stream of the FNPP has its own set of assessment criteria; each stream shares similar criteria and only a few are exclusive to them. Consequently, the assessment criteria is dependent to the priority and objective of the funding initiative. Some of the assessment criteria includes but is not limited to, ensuring that the community has local support from the First Nation or Inuit government that has jurisdiction over the community and the land occupied by the community; support from their relevant jurisdiction, officer-to-population ratio; community location (including distance and access to the nearest service centre), population size, total rate of crime, violent crimes, sexual assault, assaults crimes; degree to which the project is seen as a promising practice or an innovative approach in the area of First Nation or Inuit policing, linkages of the project, activities and/or expected results with Public Safety Canada or Government of Canada priorities. For further details please see the following sections of the FNPP Terms and Conditions:  11.6.2; 12.6.2; & 13.6.2

TOMBSTONE DATA

Created in: 1991

Total Envelope: $291.2 M over five years (ongoing), including an annual increase of 2.75% to address inflation.

Source(s) of Funds: $102 million from Budget 2017 over five years to maintain funding for policing in First Nation and Inuit communities.
In January 2018, the Government of Canada announced an additional investment of $189.2 million over five years for policing in First Nations and Inuit communities currently served under the FNPP.

This additional funding includes up to $144.4 million, starting in 2018–19, to cover the gaps that have emerged between the costs of policing and the level of funding under current FNPP agreements; as well as up to $44.8 million, starting in 2019–20, for up to 110 additional officer positions in communities currently served under the FNPP.

Number of Agreements in Place: All 185 FNPP agreements were amended as a result of the additional funding of $144.4 million. In order to allocate the $44.8 million for additional officers positions under the FNPP, agreement holders were invited for the first time in the history of the FNPP to apply for additional officers in their community(ies) through an application process that launched in September 2018.

PS received 113 applications, and 60 applications were approved. The process yielded in providing 75 new officers for communities with a Self-Administered Police Service (SA); and, 35 new officers for communities with a Community Tripartite Agreement (CTA). This represents a total of 110 officers.

RENEWAL OF FNPP AGREEMENTS
Renewal of the Self-Administered Police Services (SAs)

Renewal of Community Tripartite Agreements (CTAs)

FUNDING PROFILE

 

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

2025-26

2026-27

2027-28

Budget

$146,116,400

$156,230,605

$166,790,997

$171,362,936

$176,060,603

$180,887,454

$185,847,044

$190,943,024

$196,179,141

$201,559,254

Self-Administered/ Municipal

$94,730,708

$102,960,925

$109,335,006

$112,341,718

$115,431,115

$118,605,470

$121,867,118

$125,218,467

$128,661,975

$132,200,179

Framework
(RCMP)

$50,287,177

$52,917,826

$56,986,377

$58,538,688

$60,133,687

$61,772,549

$63,456,480

$65,186,719

$66,964,539

$68,791,249

Other Initiatives

$707,752

$351,854

$208,000

$482,530

$495,800

$509,434

$523,446

$537,839

$552,627

$567,826

Actuals

$145,725,637

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FNPP AGREEMENTS - CURRENT STATUS
Total of 185 FNPP Agreements representing 457 communities in Canada

Self-Administered Police Service Agreements (SAs) à Community establishes its own police service

There are a total of 36 SAs, representing 154 communities across the country, at different stages of renewal:

requires longer-term agreement.

Municipal Quadripartite Agreements à Community contracts policing services from another police service
provider other than the RCMP

There are a total of 3 Municipal Quadripartite Agreement across the country:

signed by Canada as of March 31, 2020

Framework Agreements (FAs) & Community Tripartite Agreements (CTAs)
 à Community contracts policing services from the RCMP

There are 10 FAs and 135 CTAs representing 280 communities:

community tripartite agreements.

 into auto-extension
Ontario First Nations Policing Agreement (OFNPA)

FNPP PARTNERSHIP WITH PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES

FNPP 110 OFFICERS POSITIONS – AMENDMENTS TO FNPP AGREEMENTS

$44.8 million starting in 2019-2020 for up to 110 additional officers.

SAs

OFNPA
There are 20 communities served under the OFNPA. To date, 7 out of 20 service-level agreements (SLA) under the OFNPA have been signed.

CTAs and FAs
There is a total of 135 CTAs, for which 24 will be amended to reflect the number of additional officers.

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