New police chief - Dean Lerat is congratulated by outgoing police chief Lennard Busch. Lerat said he hopes to stabilize the force over the next five years. (Alan Hustak/Grasslands News)

The new chief of the File Hills First Nations Police Service hopes to double the eight officer force over the next five years. The department is Saskatchewan’s first and only self-governing Indigenous police service and Dean Lerat hopes it can grow to serve all of the Treaty Four communities. He describes his new job as […]

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