By Mike Stimpson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter THUNDER BAY- Thursday’s badge ceremony for 11 new Nishnawbe Aski Police Service members brings the First Nations force up to about 200 members, NAPS Chief of Police Roland Morrison said. That’s dozens shy of the 262 that the service considers a “normal complement,” he said, but “we are slowly getting up there.” Dogged recruitment efforts inside and outside Ontario will continue to close the gap, he said. “Certainly our recruitment department has been very, very busy going out into the field, attending those 1/8police 3/8 colleges, going to career fairs,” he said. NAPS serves 34 First Nations in a vast expanse stretching as far north as Hudson Bay, east to a First Nation near Ontario’s border with Quebec, and west to Deer Lake…
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