Manitoba First Nations Police Service names interim chief – Winnipeg Free Press
Jan. 9, 2025
The Manitoba First Nations Police Service has named an interim replacement as tributes continue to pour in for its chief, who is believed to have died in a house fire.
The MFNPS said in a news release late Thursday afternoon that Insp. Jason Colon is now its interim chief.
Human remains believed to those of Chief Doug Palson were found in the rubble of a house that burned to the ground just north of the small community of High Bluff, northeast of Portage la Prairie, early Wednesday.
“In the days to come there will be a more formal tribute, which will celebrate his life and his career in policing, which spanned over 35 years,” Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council Police Commission chair Sherri Thomas said in the release.
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