The chronology is fleshed out in the following section “An Overview of Aboriginal Policing,” and has been discussed in depth in the researcher’s publications on the topic (Clairmont, 2000 , 2001, 2002 ). Suffice it here to note that perhaps the three central events in shaping Aboriginal policing have been (1) the withdrawal of the RCMP from regular policing in First Nations in Ontario and Quebec a [...] AN OVERVIEW OF ABORIGINAL POLICING IN CANADA In this section attention is focused on the evolution of Aboriginal policing in Canada from the perspective of the RCMP, the OPP, and the self-administered (SA) First Nation police services in Ontario. [...] Until the 1960s, when dramatic changes took hold both in the expansion of government services and agencies in Aboriginal communities spearheaded by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND), and in the announced withdrawal of the RCMP from routine conventional policing in Aboriginal communities in Ontario and Quebec, the RCMP policed Aboriginal communities under a broad pol [...] The Aboriginal officers clearly had second-class status in the 3B arrangement (symbolically for many years 3Bs were not allowed to don the famous “red serge” formal RCMP attire), and there was, reportedly, significant ambiguity and contention in some areas, such as Ontario, concerning the role of the special constable and the role of the band councils in directing his or her activities. [...] Associated with the Commissioner’s Office is a well-known First Nation liaison inspector (also a lawyer), who links the OPP to First Nation leaders and who has been central to the development of the OPP’s Aboriginal Relations Teams (ART) and, along with those in the First Nation policing unit, in the cultural sensitivity and Native awareness training provided to OPP officers.