Regina police report decrease in crimes against people, property in May
Regina Police Board of Commissioners met Thursday morning and reported a decrease in certain crimes in the city throughout the month of May.
According to a report from the meeting, crimes against people and property saw an overall decrease of 15 per cent in May.
Regina police said assaults were down 24 per cent, robberies dropped 10 per cent and breaking and entering saw a 33 per cent decline in May.
Overdose concerns
However, over the past few weeks Regina police have partnered up with the Saskatchewan Health Authority reacting to a local increase in overdoses throughout the first half of June. That included 54 in one week.
'There might be a drug that's in the community right now that has increased toxicity over what we are regularly seeing, based on the number of calls for assistance that we are receiving,' Acting Chief of Police Lorilee Davies said.
'So, we work with Sask. health just to put out an alert so that people in the community understand what's happening in real time and then can make maybe safer choices in terms of their usage of those narcotics so that we aren't having more overdoses,' Davies said.
An overdose alert was issued for Regina on June 12 and was scheduled to last until June 19.
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