Saskatoon Police holding aboriginal recruitment fair
Recruitment fair aimed at attracting more Aboriginal Peoples to policing careers
The numbers are already solid.
But Saskatoon Police say they could be better.
One in 10 police officers in the city is aboriginal. Chief Clive Weighill is proud of how the force reflects that element of the community.
Keeping that proportion growing is a priority he identified in his year-end interview with Saskatoon Morning.
"Certainly continuing hiring more First Nations — Métis in our service. We're up to about 12 per cent now, that's double in the last decade," he said.
One person who can speak first-hand about the possibilities of policing as a career is Ernie Louttit. He was the third First Nation person to be hired by the police service and just retired to pursue a career as an author.
"I was a policeman and I will always be a native man. The values of each man were not incompatible at the end of the day," he told CBC.
The recruitment workshop runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. CST on Thursday. It's happening in the community room at the police station. More than 60 people are already registered.