Please note all information below occurred within the time period above, unless otherwise noted.
Saskatchewan RCMP - Your Provincial Police Service
As a new school year begins, Saskatchewan RCMP is reminding parents and caretakers to keep safety in mind when posting back-to-school pictures on social media.
Those trendy photos of children holding chalkboard-style back-to-school signs may be perfect for the family photo book, but there are some things you may want to think carefully about before you share them publicly. Ask yourself – are you comfortable with strangers knowing your child's name and age, where they go to school and what their favourite things are?
Also consider the photo's setting. A photo on your front step could potentially identify where you live. A snapshot in front of the school's sign shows where your child is enrolled – and likely to be every day.
If you can't resist sharing, we suggest limiting the personal information included on props and being mindful of the background of the photo. It might also be a good time to review and update your privacy settings on your social media accounts.
We thank Sylvan Lake RCMP for inspiring this important safety tip and wish all Saskatchewan students a safe and enjoyable school year!
Investigative Recap
August 22: Maidstone RCMP received a report of a vehicle roll over on Highway 17, about two miles south of the Sask River bridge in the early evening. The 71-year-old male driver of the truck was declared deceased by EMS prior to RCMP arrival. The passenger, a 63-year-old male, was transported to hospital by EMS to be treated for his injuries. Both individuals were from the Onion Lake First Nation. Police from the Onion Lake RCMP detachment, an RCMP Collision Analyst, the Saskatchewan Coroner's Service also attended the scene. The cause of the accident is still being investigated.
August 26: At approximately 1:50 a.m., Punnichy RCMP responded to the report of a single vehicle collision along the 640 Grid road on the George Gordon First Nation, SK. Upon arrival, police located a car rolled over in the ditch on the west side of the 640 Grid road. The driver of the car, a 16-year-old female, was declared deceased on scene. The passenger of the car, a 15-year-old female, was treated on scene by EMS for her injuries and transported to hospital by STARS Air Ambulance. Lestock EMS, Lestock Fire Department, STARS Air Ambulance, George Gordon First Nation Security, the Saskatchewan Coroner's Service, and an RCMP Collision Reconstructionist all attended and assisted on scene. An autopsy has been ordered by the Saskatchewan Coroner's Service. No charges are expected to be laid.
August 26: From reports of floating boats to bison on the loose - Fort Qu'appelle RCMP had a busy morning.
At 6:16 a.m. the detachment received a report of a boat floating along the north shore of Echo Lake with no people in it. Fort Qu'Appelle Fire Department recovered the boat. A few hours later the owner of the boat called the RCMP Detachment to report their boat stolen. Their description matched that of the recovered boat and arrangements were made to have it picked up by the owner.
Shortly after 6:30 a.m. Fort Qu'Appelle RCMP responded to several reports of 50+ bison and calves loose on/crossing and around Highway #10 near the turnoff to Qu'Appelle. Two RCMP officers arrived and the bison owners were already there. All the bison were already off the highway and being put back in their nearby pasture. Officers stayed on scene to help prevent them from going back onto the road. No collisions were reported to police.
Incidents in Saskatchewan RCMP jurisdiction August 22 to 28, 2022
Please note: the statistics below are representative of reports received within the Saskatchewan RCMP jurisdiction. They are from the RCMP records management system and are accurate as the day they are collected. Crime statistics are regularly updated due to changes in reporting procedures, changes in ongoing investigations, etc. As a result, the statistics below may differ from previous or future published reports.
| Calls for service total | 7,595 |
| Highest volume of calls for service was on August 27, 2022 | 1,302 |
| Reports of Impaired Drivers (RID calls) | 211 |
| Homicide | 0 |
| Homicides year to date (January, 2022 to last day encompassed in this report) | 15 |
| Sexual assaults | 24 |
| Sexual crime - other (invitation to sexual touching, sexual interference) | 4 |
Assaults
| Aggravated Assault | 4 |
| Assault | 205 |
| Assault with weapon or cauing bodily harm | 59 |
| Robbery | 5 |
| Firearms (use of in the commission of an offence, discharge with intent, pointing a firearm) | 8 |
| Kidnapping/forcible confinement | 7 |
| Harassment/uttering threats | 125 |
| Other persons offences (domestic or family dispute, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, extortion with firearm, mischief – danger to life, etc.) | 45 |
| Break and Enter Total | 136 |
| Number of break and enters to a business | 20 |
| Number of break and enters to a residence | 80 |
| Number of other break and enters (encompasses sheds, storage containers, unattached garages, etc.) | 34 |
| Theft Total | 304 |
| Other theft over $5,000 | 48 |
| Theft $5,000 or under | 207 |
| Number of theft of motor vehicle | 49 |
| Mischief | 569 |
| Number of mischief - damage to property | 169 |
| Number of mischief - obstruct enjoyment of property (example: unwanted, intoxicated person at a residence) | 400 |
| Bail violations | 160 |
| Breach of probation | 35 |
| Failure to appear | 22 |
| Disturbing the peace | 201 |
Reports of intimate partner and family violence
- Time period reported is quarterly.
- Data represents number of victims, as there may be more than one victim on a specific investigative file. An individual victimized more than once in a timeframe would be counted more than once. Due to common relationship types in intimate and family violence categories, totals should not be combined.
- Intimate partner refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), current and former dating partner, or someone with whom the victim was in another type of intimate relationship.
- Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), parents (biological, step, adoptive and foster), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws).
| April 2022 | |
| Intimate partner violence | 371 |
| Family violence | 372 |
| May 2022 | |
| Intimate partner violence | 375 |
| Family violence | 385 |
| June 2022 | |
| Intimate partner violence | 362 |
| Family violence | 362 |
| Total intimate partner violence April-June 2022 | 1,108 |
| Total family violence April-June 2022 | 1,119 |
| Impaired-related offences | 112 |
| Number of roadside suspensions | 19 |
| Dangerous operation of a motor vehicle | 25 |
| Speeding (this does not include automated speed enforcement fines issued) | 1,558 |
| Fines issued | 1,084 |
| Warnings issued (education-focused interaction between police and public) | 474 |
| Collisions | 158 |
| Dangerous driving | 14 |
| Fatal collisions (number of incidents, not victims) | 3 |
Non-offence Codes (generally, instances where Criminal Codes or Provincial/Federal Statutes aren't broken – for example abandoned vehicles, animal calls, school visits, property or wellbeing checks, etc.)
| Assistance | 322 |
| False alarms | 235 |
| Breach of peace | 150 |
| 911 Act – other activities | 186 |
| Suspicious person/vehicle/property | 277 |
| Mental health act (generally, police officers responding to reports of persons thinking about suicide, or people with mental illness and requiring assistance): | 177 |
| Non-suspicious sudden deaths/Coroner's Act (Every non-suspicious sudden death police officers respond to including reports of persons who died by suicide, natural, accident or undetermined. Specific breakdowns by cause of death are unavailable.) | 12 |