By Jeff Pelletier  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Nunavik Police Service is bolstering its rank by borrowing officers from other Quebec regions. It announced last month that it has signed a loan agreement with the regional police department in Therese-De Blainville, Que., a municipality north of Montreal. This isn’t a first for Nunavik’s police service. For the past two years, provincial Surete du Quebec officers have been working in Nunavik to fill some of the region’s policing shortages. Simon Perreault, the first of the Therese-De Blainville patrol officers to arrive in Nunavik, has been living in Kangirsuk for the past month, following a week of training in Kuujjuaq. He’ll be posted in the region for at least seven months, but isn’t sure if he’ll be staying in Kangirsuk in the

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