The partnership between Turtle Concepts and NAPS began little more than a year ago when Chief of Police Roland Morrison observed the group in Thunder Bay.
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Timmins Mayor Kristin Murray and Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) Chief of Police Roland Morrison were recognized for their leadership roles on the second day of the Keewaywin Conference, held Aug. 9-11 in Timmins. Murray, a Chapleau Cree citizen who was elected as a Timmins councillor in 2018, was appointed as mayor on Aug. 9 for the remainder of the 2018-2022 term after
She has interviewed more than a thousand victims many of them more than once.
“We’d bring them in one door, interview them, collect our evidence and then shove them out the back door with no support,” says Morrison. “Every time, my brain said, ‘This isn’t right.’”
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It could take weeks for victim services to follow up and months for a trial to begin; it was the luck of the draw whether a victim would show up to testify.