These reports guide our continued efforts, and focus our crime prevention strategies in the communities most vulnerable to violence against Indigenous women. The most likely perpetrator of solved homicides of Indigenous women were acquaintances (30%) and spouses (29%), followed by other categories of relationships such as other family members and other intimate relationships Footnote 2. The Statistics Canada Homicide Report, 2014 found that Indigenous women are six times more likely to be the victim of a homicide than are non-Indigenous women Footnote 1.īoth the Overview and the subsequent Update made another fact clear: in most cases the perpetrators of these crimes were known to their victims. The data also found that police solve almost 90% of homicides of Indigenous women and girls the clearance rate for Indigenous women was 88% versus 89% for non-Indigenous women. Of these, there were 164 missing and 1,017 homicide victims, making Indigenous women and girls over-represented among missing and murdered women in Canada. The 2014 report found 1,181 police-recorded incidents of Indigenous female homicides between 1980 and 2012, and missing Indigenous females dating back to 1951. The resulting 2014 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview, and the subsequent 2015 Update to the National Operational Overview, provided the most comprehensive and accurate statistics available to date on the extent of the problem of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), incorporating data from police forces Canada-wide. As frontline police officers, we know that Indigenous women are at greater risk of being victimized because of this, the RCMP Commissioner called for more research on this issue. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is committed to the prevention of violence against women.
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Working Together to End Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls National Scan of RCMP Initiatives May 2017 - PDF Version (8,685 KB) Introduction