Nunavik Constable Receives Award for Distinguished Service

Press Release

Kuujjuaq, Québec, June 22, 2016 – On June 9, 2016, at a special awards ceremony organized during the Québec Aboriginal Chiefs of Police Annual Meeting hosted by the Ministère de la Sécurité publique (public security), Constable Timothy Sangoya of the Kativik Regional Police Force (KRPF) was recognized for his many years of distinguished policing service.

Over the years, Constable Sangoya has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the law and to Nunavimmiut, in particular in the community of Tasiujaq. Constable Sangoya started with the KRPF in 1998 as a supernumerary special constable, while regional policing in Nunavik was in its infancy. The KRPF only began delivering services on April 1, 1996. For more than ten years, Constable Sangoya then held the position of full-time special constable. In 2010, he transferred to the KRPF’s crime prevention team, and in 2015 to the position of regular constable.

All KRPF officers are encouraged and enabled to adopt an active approach to community relations. As well, the KRPF’s prevention activities specifically target building awareness of public safety issues in order to mitigate and eliminate problems of crime and violence. Due to the high incidence of crime in the region and a general lack of understanding of the law and the judicial system, prevention activities are very important. For Constable Sangoya, it is this important work that has encouraged him to persevere in his policing career for all these years.

Constable Sangoya is an inspiration, who is serving as a significant role model for younger generations of Inuit looking to policing as a career. Thank you, Timothy.

KRPF Chief Michel Martin attended the 2016 Québec Aboriginal Chiefs of Police Annual Meeting and had the honour of introducing Constable Sangoya for his award.

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Jean-Philippe Dubois
Communications Coordinator
Kativik Regional Government
Tel. 819-964-2961, ext. 2219
media@krg.ca

The Kativik Regional Police Force (KRPF) was created by the Kativik Regional Government in 1996 with the participation of the Solicitor General of Canada and the Ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec (public security) to maintain peace, order and public safety in Nunavik. The KRPF has police detachments in all 14 communities. The mission of the KRPF and each of its members pursuant to the Police Act is to maintain peace, order and public security; to prevent and repress crime and offences under the law and municipal by-laws in the Kativik Region; as well as to apprehend offenders.

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