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Fewer impaired driving-related and speeding offences in RCMP weekly report

By Carol Thomson Jul 11, 2022 | 5:27 PM

Saskatchewan RCMP fielded 7,694 calls for service last week, which is just under the 7,701 calls the week prior, the highest since the RCMP began tallying the weekly results in June.  Police say these totals don’t include the calls that would go directly to an RCMP detachment. There were 111 Impaired driving-related offences, which is down by 32 from the week previous , and speeding was down by 609, for 1,015 incidents. On the rise though, there were 25 more collisions where RCMP responded for a total of 175.

Calls for service total 7694
Highest volume of calls for service was on July 9, 2022 1295
Reports of Impaired Drivers (RID calls) 93
Persons Offences (number of incidents, not victims)
Homicide 1
Homicides year to date (January, 2022 to last day encompassed in this report) 13
Sexual assaults 15
Sexual crime – other (invitation to sexual touching, sexual interference) 4
Assaults
Aggravated Assault 5
Assault 204
Assault with weapon or causing bodily harm 68
Robbery 5
Firearms (use of in the commission of an offence, discharge with intent, pointing a firearm) 3
Kidnapping/forcible confinement 3
Harassment/uttering threats 118
Other persons offences (domestic or family dispute, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, extortion with firearm, mischief – danger to life, etc.) 28
 
Property Offences
Break and Enter Total 109
Number of break and enters to a business 23
      Number of break and enters to a residence 67
      Number of other break and enters (encompasses sheds, storage containers, unattached garages, etc.) 18
Theft Total 278
        Other theft over $5,000 32
        Theft $5,000 or under 209
        Number of theft of motor vehicle 37
Mischief 577
        Number of mischief – damage to property 156
        Number of mischief – obstruct enjoyment of property (example: unwanted, intoxicated person at a residence) 419
Other Criminal Code Offences
Bail violations 139
Breach of probation 32
Failure to appear/comply 30
Disturbing the peace 217
Traffic
Impaired-related offences 111
        Number of roadside suspensions 7
Dangerous operation of a motor vehicle 20
Speeding (this does not include automated speed enforcement fines issued) 1015
        Fines issued 722
        Warnings issued (education-focused
interaction between police and public
)
293
Collisions 175
Dangerous driving 10
Fatal collisions (number of road-going 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 366
False alarms 259
Breach of peace 167
911 Act – other activities 229
Suspicious person/vehicle/property 235
Mental health act (generally, police officers responding to reports of persons thinking about suicide, or people with mental illness and requiring assistance): 230
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.) 19