Police say the police operation in the 800 block of Edgar Street is now concluded. Residents in the area can resume their regular activities. Police say there were shots fired somewhere on the block earlier this morning and had issued a temporary shelter-in-place advisory for that area’s residents. The investigation is ongoing.
A man had died after a police shooting Prince Albert. Police say an officer started an investigation in an industrial area in the southern part of the city Monday when the shooting happened. They say during a confrontation with police, a man was shot, treated by paramedics and then sent to hospital, where he died. […]
2022 was a successful year for Regina Crime Stoppers (RCS). RCS received 715 tips last year, which resulted in 24 arrests, 44 charges laid, and 35 cleared cases with a total value of property, drugs and cash seized or recovered, totalling $686,400. “Overall, last year we saw fewer tips, arrests, charges, and cases cleared than […]
Early Sunday morning, police investigated suspicious activity in the Glen Elm neighbourhood, and wound up seeing a suspect place a loaded firearm into a recycling bin. Police were in the neighbourhood at 4:55 Sunday morning looking for a vehicle that evaded police. They followed a cab to the area of College Avenue and MacDonald Street, […]
The Saskatchewan government is providing more than one-million dollars to support policing initiatives in Estevan and Weyburn in the latest rollouts of the municipal police grants program. Weyburn is to get $405,000 to fund two existing police positions in the community, and one new position in traffic services. “”This investment will not only strengthen the […]
Regina’s city council approved the creation of a new operating reserve called the Regina Police Service (RPS) Community Policing Initiative. The purpose of the reserve would be to support the RPS’s community policing initiative and offset police overtime costs that many community groups and organizations would have to pay for police presence during an event. […]
Parents in Pilot Butte want better safety measures after a threat from a student last month. One of those parents is Lydia Riopka, who has two daughters who attend the school. Last month, one of her daughters received a Snapchat of a toy gun pointed at the school, as well as various threats referencing a […]
Canada’s police chiefs are urging the federal government not to rely on resource-strapped police forces to carry out a planned gun buyback. The Liberal government banned some 1,500 models and variants of firearms, including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14, through an order-in-council in May 2020 on the grounds they have no place in hunting or […]
Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he had a heavy and difficult visit with families of those killed in a mass stabbing in Saskatchewan before he signed an agreement to explore new ways to improve safety on some First Nations in the province. “It is a cornerstone of reconciliation that policing for Indigenous people by Indigenous […]
The Saskatchewan Police Commission has released the results of their investigation into workplace concerns within the Estevan Police Service. The inquiry, initiated in June 2021, consisted of fact-finding interviews focused on workplace culture, health and well-being support for police officers; the role and responsibilities of the Chief of Police and the Estevan Board of Police […]
