Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Labour, equipment cause police budget increase

Moose Jaw Police Service Deputy Chief of Police
Randy Fuhr (left) and Chief of Police Richard
Bourassa present their budget estimations for 2014
at the Dec. 9, 2013 budget committee meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Per capita, the Moose Jaw Police Service is busier than the Regina Police Service, said Moose Jaw’s police chief.

“Calls for service are dropping, but interestingly there’s still almost 17,000 calls for service in 2012,” said Richard Bourassa, Moose Jaw Police Service’s chief of police. “When we look at the service in terms of comparing it to the other (police) services in the province, what we see is Moose Jaw actually has a fairly low rate of police officers compared to the other cities, but yet carries a high workload in terms of Criminal Code incidents per officer.”

Bourassa and Randy Fuhr, deputy police chief, presented the police service’s 2014 operating budget estimates to budget committee at Monday’s meeting.

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