Funding for Indigenous police services usually falls under the First Nations and Intuit Policing Program and is federally funded. However, the federal government has frozen the program for more than two years for a restructuring. 

Thursday, June 23, 2022, it was announced that the Alberta government will fund the total cost of 15 new police officers to address the underfunding of the first nations police services in the province. 

Tsuut'ina Nation, the Blood Tribe, and Lakeshore Regional police services will be able to hire five new officers each. The Tsuut'ina Nation Police Service provides policing to the nation as well as Redwood Meadows which is a non-indigenous community. 

Keith Blake chief of police for Tsuut'ina Nation Police says, “The sole-source funding the province is providing all three Alberta self-administered First Nation police services is a clear recognition of their commitment in supporting us in a path towards equity and fairness within the First Nation and Inuit Policing Program. Our Nation’s leadership, community members, and officers and staff of our police service are grateful for the leadership and commitment demonstrated by the Government of Alberta with this historic announcement.”

Chief Roy Whitney-Onespot of Tsuut'ina Nation says, "We've worked really hard in attempting to be as professional as we can and developing not only a police force that will provide the services that are required within our First Nation but also to assist in other services that are outside of our Nation. And we have recently taken over Redwood Meadows as our policing jurisdiction."