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Inadequate shelter services in Arctic Canada imprison Inuit women in cycle of violence: study

7 June 201910 June 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments courts, housing, Inuit, mental health, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Pauktuutit, policing

The lack of women’s shelters, transition lodging and second-stage housing services is keeping Inuit women trapped in an ongoing cycle

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Report on violence against Indigenous women a ‘wake-up call’ for Canada, says Pauktuutit president

3 June 20197 June 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments courts, First Nations, Inuit, Metis, MMIWG, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Pauktuutit, policing

The final report on violence against Indigenous woman in Canada should serve as a wake-up call for the country, but

Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)

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Alaska: Project to arm village officers begins with just 3 making initial cut

12 March 201513 March 2015 Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic, courts, crime, law, North, policing

BETHEL — Just three Alaska village public safety officers passed background checks, a physical fitness test and a psychological evaluation so they

Shared police cars is part of the plan. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

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Finnish-Swedish police launch cross-border cooperation

22 January 201523 January 2015 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments international, law, policing, Sweden

Burglars on the run get harder times in the Swedish – Finnish borderland as police forces will be allowed to

Police in one of Russia's Arctic regions think it will be easier to police the region with reindeer teams than with snowmobiles. (iStock)

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Service reindeer for police in Russia’s Arctic

21 November 201424 November 2014 Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments crime, law enforcement, Nenets, policing, snowmobiles, transportation

Russian authorities are considering establishing a ‘reindeer police force’ to help combat crime in the Yamalo-Nenets tundra region. Police in Yamalo-Nenets

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Police militarization scrutinized in U.S. — including Alaska

27 August 201429 August 2014 Jerzy Shedlock, Alaska Dispatch 0 Comments Alaska State Troopers, Arctic, Ferguson, law, military, North, policing

Images of armored, rifle-toting officers and tear gas canisters dispersing late-night protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, which followed the shooting death