"I" Is for Impact

I missed doing the ABCs Wednesday posting because I was in Thunder Bay Ontario, engaged in a two-day training session. But here comes the "I" for impact.

The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Services invited the Literacy and Policing project to deliver our program on how low literacy, amongst victims, witnesses, and accused persons, impacts the criminal justice system.

This is an awareness program. But our own awareness was certainly raised by a video we viewed during preparation for the visit.

The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service is 10 years old. I discovered in person that this police service is composed of informed, educated, well-trained people who care deeply about their work in community policing. They certainly taught us more than we were able to share with them.

Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service: A Sacred Calling is an 18 minute documentary short film portraying the deplorable working and living conditions of NAPS officers and detachments, resulting from an accumulation of severe provincial and federal funding shortages.

View the documentary from Nishnawbe Aski Nation web site. You will never regret having given your time.

Addition:
A nice bit of news coverage for our project: http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories_local.php?id=99325