Our Team

Edward “Lennard” Busch is of Sioux ancestry and is a member of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation in Saskatchewan. He has been a police officer for 41 years. Len commenced his policing career with the Manitoba Police Commission as a Native Special Constable at South Indian Lake, Manitoba in 1978. He joined the RCMP in 1980 and served for 34 years doing general duty policing, drug enforcement, intelligence, undercover operations, protective operations, and as an instructor at the RCMP Academy.

Commissioned to the rank of Inspector in 1999 he served as the Officer in Charge of National Aboriginal Policing in Ottawa. He then served as the Governor General’s Security Liaison Officer for 3 years and in 2006 was posted to the Canadian Police College as the Director of the Professional Development Centre for Aboriginal Policing. In 2012 Len became the Director of the Police Leadership Centre.

In the fall of 2014 Len retired from the RCMP and became the Chief of Police at the File Hills First Nations Police Service in Saskatchewan, which is currently the only self-administered First Nations Police Service in the Province. He is currently also the Vice-President (West) for the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association.

Len retired from the File Hills Police in December, 2021 and became the Executive Director for the FNCPA in January 2022.

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Phone: (306) 331-6199

Karen Haines is of Ojibway ancestry and is a member of the Sandy Bay First Nation in Manitoba. She has worked in administration and finance for 30 years. Karen started her career within her community until 2006, then joined Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council. She brings her experience with Band administration, as well as her time working with the DOTC Executive and Community Chiefs at the Tribal Council.

During her tenure at DOTC, an opportunity to work with the Dakota Ojibway Police Service arose (now known as Manitoba First Nations Police Service), where she engaged in the opportunity to support policing. As the Executive Assistant/Finance for the FNCPA, she began to work with FNCPA under the auspices of what was previously arranged with MFNPS in 2011. FNCPA required administrative support, and Karen stepped forward and embraced the role.

From her college years to now, Karen has trained in administration, finance, policy, research, and various other administrative areas, to support her work in the political and policing fields. She has been nominated for Award in Manitoba Association of Chiefs of Police 2023, Awarded Distinguished Services Recognition by FNCPA in 2023, Distinguished Services Recognition by MFNPS in 2017 and 2021, and has received several awards from 1990 to current year.

Karen has also contributed her personal time with several committees in her community (Sandy Bay Treaty Days, Pow Wow, All Nations Tribal Days) as well as participating with other associations when requested, and traditional ceremony. She is a professional coordinator and has 30 years’ experience coordinating events and conferences, and is an amateur photographer.

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Cell: (204) 871-5952

Hélène Roberge is honoured to work for the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association (FNCPA) since October 2024. She started there following a 30-year career in the Government of Canada, where she spent her last 22 years working at the Canadian Police College (CPC) as part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She is fully bilingual in English and French.

Her background in the government is in training and adult education, working over the years for the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (6 years) and Correctional Service Canada (2 years). At the CPC, she first worked as an Instructional Designer in the Police Sciences School area and in the last 13 years, she managed the Executive Development in Policing Program (EDP) for police executives across Canada and from international agencies. This included the management of the International EDP program in collaboration with the Hong Kong Police Force.

Over the years, she has developed a variety of skills in leadership development with a focus on the importance of training needs assessments as well as the importance of self-awareness for leaders using a variety of tools (Insights Discovery, EQ-i- 2.0, MBTI, Enneagram) and more recently she has completed the Integral Coaching Canada’s Professional coaching level certification.

During her time as an Instructional Designer at the CPC, she worked on several major design and development projects, such as the re-design of the Major Case Management course to the Team Commander version still used today and also the brand-new Organized Crime Course, which included the Indigenous policing version in 2007, which for all these projects involved extensive training needs assessment studies across Canada working with several subject matter stakeholders.

Hélène and her husband love to travel and spend time with their friends and family. They continue to enjoy hiking in Canada and all around the world. They also enjoy curling in the winter in Ottawa and in the summer have recently started lawn bowling.

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Cell        (613) 618-9254