Brenda Butterworth-Carr
Brenda Butterworth-Carr belongs to the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation in Dawson. She joined the RCMP in 1987 as a native special constable. She became the director general of National Aboriginal Policing and Crime Prevention Services in Ottawa and then was the officer in charge of the Prince George detachment. She became the commanding officer in Saskatchewan in 2013. In 2016, she became the officer in charge of criminal operations core policing. She is the chairperson of the RCMP’s National Women’s Advisory Committee and is a member of the Canadian and International Association of Chiefs of Police. In 2017, Butterworth-Carr was appointed deputy commissioner in charge of the British Columbia RCMP.1) She was the first aboriginal woman to hold the job. In 2019, she resigned from the police and started work in the British Columbia government overseeing provincial policy on municipal police services and the provincial contract with the RCMP. Surrey planned on starting its own police force and has to submit a plan to leave the RCMP. The plan needs the approval of Solicitor-General Mike Farnsworth who will rely on advice from Butterworth-Carr.2)