Stl’atl’imx Tribal Police Service
| Stl'atl'imx Tribal Police Service | |
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| Common name | Tribal Police |
| Abbreviation | STPS |
Uniform shoulder patch of the STPS
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1992 |
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| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Province of British Columbia, Canada |
| Population | 6,260 approx. (St'at'imc) |
| Constituting instrument | BC Police Act |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Overviewed by | Stl'atl'imx Tribal Police Board |
| Police Officers | 9 |
| Elected officer responsible | The Honourable Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General of British Columbia |
| Agency executive | Deborah Doss-Cody, Chief Officer |
| Website | |
| stlatlimxpolice.ca | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Stl'atl'imx (/slætˈliːəm/) Tribal Police Service (STPS) is the police force for St'at'imc aboriginal peoples of British Columbia. The STPS is the only aboriginal police service in British Columbia. Their officers are appointed as designated provincial constables, and have full police powers on and off-duty throughout the province. They are based in Lillooet and Mount Currie.
Communities served consist of the N'Quatqua (Anderson Lake), Lil'wat (Mount Currie), Samahquam (Baptiste-Smith), Sekw'el'was (Cayoose Creek), Skatin (Skookumchuck), T'it'q'et (Lillooet), Tsalalh (Seton Lake), Ts'kw'aylaxw (Pavilion), Xa'xtsa (Douglas), and Xaxli'p (Fountain).
In 1986 the Lillooet first nation band council established a security program where officers patrolled reserves and worked with the RCMP to prevent and prosecute crime. In 1988 the council built on the security program by forming the peacekeepers for the communities of T'itq'et, Tsalalth, and Lil'wat.
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