More police are assigned to schools abuse probe EXPECT THE number of RCMP officers from the northwest in- volved in a massive investigation of abuse at native residential schools to grow. While one RCMP officer from the force's subdivision head- quarters in Prince Rupert has been assigned to the case, others will be used as needed, says RCMP Inspector Tony Mahon, RCMP number grows THERE’LL SOON be four RCMP officers in the Nass Val- ley, an increase of one, thanks to a federal-provincial native polic- ing agreement signed with the Nisga’a Tribal Council. The agreement is one of six now in effect in the province whereby native band councils or tribal organizations become in- volved with policing issues. The new officer will join an ex- isting native RCMP officer al- ready in the Nass to work more closely with local communities, | says RCMP Inspector Tony § _ Mahon who works on native policing issues in B.C, Under the agreement, the feder- | al governments pays 52 per cent & of ‘the cost and the provincial government 48 per cent of the j cost, That’s the standard cost-sharing agreement sow in place in the ‘province to- cover policing in tural areas. The agreement covering the two officers is for four years at $238,251 a year covering wages, benefits, equipment, training and overhead. - . Mabon said the agreements shouldn’t be confused with a for- mer RCMP program to recruit na- tives as police officers. That native special constable program featured training periods that weren’t as long as the ones for regular RCMP officers, The native special constable positions were phased out in 1991 and those officers are now fully- fledged RCMP sacmbers. , The officers will still be under the command of the New Aiyansh RCMP detachment. Mahon expects the new position to be filled by spring. The inspector said an officer from a remote detachment in the Northwest Territories has indi- cated he wants to move to the Nass Valley, Court Report | HERE ARE convictions resulting from recent cases heard in Terrace provincial court These will be aboriginal police officers and while Mahon didn’t have a specific number from the northwest, he said more than 60 will be used from around the pro- vince. “You can expect a large num- ber of those will be from the Prince Rupert subdivision,” Mahon said, A. taining program is being scheduled for the officers. “Often they have a strong trust, _ more of a relationship when it comes to disclosures of. this kind,’’ said Mahon. ‘“‘Many of them have gone through the residential school system or have parents or relatives who have.’’ The investigation into allega- tions of sexual and physical abuse at mainly church-run residential schools is being described as the largest of its kind ever mounted by the RCMP in the province, Police officers are gearing up to interview several hundred people who attended the 13 residential “Charles J. Givens is one of the greatest success stories in North America.” - SUCCESS MAGAZINE schools that opcrated in B.C, Two of those were in the north: west, Lower Past 1951 and 1975 and at Lejac near Fraser Lake from 1910 to 1976. Both were operated by the Roman Catholic church. The RCMP announced the in- vestigation in late 1994 at the re- quest of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council, . ; it was once federal government policy to take native children from their families and put them in schools run by churches. In ad- dition to the Roman Catholic church, schools were run by the Anglican and United churches. 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