Indigenous Women – Safety & Protection
Winnipeg Police Board 2015 2nd Quarter Update
August 31, 2015 (report submitted)

To provide a Q2 2015 status report at the Board’s public meeting in September 11th, 2015 on the
Winnipeg Police Service’s strategic activities involving indigenous women and girls with respect to:
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Investigations
Enforcement
Prevention/Intervention
Community Engagement
Research

Investigations
Manitoba Integrated Task Force for Missing and Murdered Women
No new information to report this quarter.
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Traigo ANDRETTI, remains charged with second degree murder in the death of Myrna LETANDRE
in 2006. Court proceedings are still pending.

Homicide Unit/Historical Homicide Unit
Homicides 2015 – Q2: 11
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2 of the victims were female.
1 of the female victims was indigenous. (Cleared by charge).

Enforcement
Counter Exploitation Unit
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5 males were arrested and charged for prostitution related offences.
6 exploitation investigations.
1 historical offence that involved procuring sex from a youth.
1 human trafficking investigation where the victim was identified as an indigenous female.

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 Prevention and Intervention
Missing Persons Unit

Short Term Missing Persons Update – Q2 Totals by District:
Division 11

Division 12

Division 13

Division 14

City-Wide Total

401

573

572

633

2179

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Habitual/ Chronic MP’s accounted for 68% of the MP Occurrences in Q2 2015.
In total, 709 individuals were Missing Persons during Q2 2015.
71% of Missing Persons in Q2 2015 were female.
CFS Facilities accounted for 82.6% of MP Occurrences.
Group Homes accounted for 61% of MP Occurrences.
There were 22 individuals with 15 or more MP incidents in Q2, accounting for 20% of the total.

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 City-wide Missing Persons Occurrences
By Type of Facility - Q2 2015
Family residence
11%

Other
6%

CFS Facilities
83%

Long Term Missing Person Files:
No long term missing person files were initiated in Q2 2015.
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Audrey Desjarlais was positively identified through a DNA match in June. Her body was pulled
from the Red River in June 2012. She had not previously been reported missing.

Counter Exploitation Unit
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91 intervention contacts with street level sex trade workers.
7 newly identified sex trade workers.
12 Community Events.
2 SPI Initiatives.

Community Engagement
Block by Block – Thunderwing Initiative
Focus on individual or families in crisis prevention in the William Whyte and Dufferin neighborhoods.
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8 individual or family referrals.
7 active files.

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 Other Initiative
SPI #CE1
On 15-05-25 the CET initiated a SPI hotspot after holding discussions with community stakeholders
including the Mission Baptist Church at 771 Sargent Ave. Met with the Pastor and other community
members to discuss ongoing issues with respect to Sex Trade activity in the area. As a result of the SPI
initiative, the ongoing efforts of the CET were supplemented by General Patrol members who dedicated
approximately six man-hours of attention to the area in a 30 day period.

North End Community Renewal Center
CET members attended the North End Community Renewal Center, 509 Selkirk Ave, on 2015-06-17 for a
meeting with members of the Bear Clan and the Take Back the Streets movement.

Documentary – Red River Women
The WPS participated in a BBC documentary that high-lighted the issue of missing and murdered women
with particular emphasis on Winnipeg. The documentary raised public awareness around the issue and
some of the strategic initiatives involving WPS Units and the community. The documentary was
published in April.

Research
No research activity to report this quarter.

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