Sask. RCMP boost staffing amid property crime spike
RCMP are confirming what many have been saying all along – crime is up in parts of rural Saskatchewan.
According to police, property crime rates have jumped 18 per cent over the past six years in the central part of the province.
In terms of RCMP coverage, it’s an area that runs north to south, from Kindersley to the Onion Lake detachment, and east to west from Alberta to the Manitoba border.
“We are listening to rural Saskatchewan. We hear that we need to get more visible in certain areas of the province. Response times could be better,” Curtis Zablocki, the RCMP ‘F’ Division commanding officer, told Gormley Friday.