Drug smuggling and intimidation: Nunavik police officers in Montreal [Video]

Officers from the Nunavik Police Service (NPS) will be patrolling the streets of Montreal with police officers from the Montreal police service (SPVM) over the next few weeks to encourage Inuit living in the south to report criminals who are smuggling drugs into Nunavik.

The SPVM and NPS held a press conference Monday in Montreal to explain that events in the north since last May have impacted the sense of security of Inuit living in Montreal.

Drug smuggling, organized by criminal groups from the south of the province, is at the root of “assaults” and “intimidation” that have taken place in Montreal, officials said. 

“Criminal groups from the south” are organizing and recruiting “Inuit members” living in Montreal “to bring drugs to Nunavik”, said Pierre Larose, Chief of the NPS. 

The Nunavik Police Service (NPS) hold a joint press conference with the Montreal police (SPVM) in Montreal on Monday, Sept. …