Fourteen peacekeepers graduated from a new training program and are now serving seven Mi’kmaw communities across New Brunswick, aiming to provide an alternative to enforcement-based policing.

Tristan Sock is already on the job in L’nui Menuikuk, Indian Island First Nation, about 65 kilometres north of Moncton.

“In my experience as soon as I start speaking Mi’kmaw to people that actually understand it, their demeanour changes,” said Sock, 36, who is originally from Elsipogtog First Nation but has lived in L’nui Menuikuk for 12 years.

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