The Senate Indian Affairs Committee holds a hearing tomorrow to discuss law enforcement in Indian Country.

The committee will look into recruitment, training, hiring and retention of Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal police officers. Most reservations remain understaffed and some tribes have only a handful of officers to cover large land bases.

The hearing takes place at 2:15pm in Room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. The witness list follows:

Panel 1
MR. WIZIPAN GARRIOT
Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Accompanied by: MR. JASON THOMPSON, Acting Deputy Bureau Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs - Office of Justice Services

MR. JOSEPH W. WRIGHT
Assistant Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC),Office of Artesia Operations, Department of Homeland Security

Panel 2
THE HONORABLE MYRA PEARSON
Chairwoman, Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation
Accompanied by: DR. DAVID GIPP, President, United Tribes Technical College

THE HONORABLE IVAN POSEY
Chair, Eastern Shoshone Tribe

MR. GARY GAIKOWSKI
Chief of Police, Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe

Committee Notice:
OVERSIGHT HEARING to examine Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal police recruitment, training, hiring, and retention (March 18, 2010)

Related Stories:
Senate Indian Affairs hearing on law enforcement hiring (3/11)