Interim Police Chief shares distressing details on crime in P.A. as well as optimism for the force
In the span of just a few months, one man has taken up the cause of leading the Prince Albert Police Service amidst ongoing scrutiny, a provincial review, and rising crime rates.
The numbers don’t lie, as the latest Crime Severity Index, showed Prince Albert had its worst year for violent crime in 2022, as the city was pushed to number three for violent crime among communities with populations over 10,000.
“When we start looking at what’s happened in Prince Albert over the last two to three years, we see some alarming trends,” said Interim Police Chief Patrick Nogier. “The most alarming being our violent crime trend and from around 2019 through 2020 and 2021, we see a steady progression in a direction that we don’t want to go for the community.”
Nogier, a former member of the Saskatoon Police Service, gave a presentation to the Prince Albert Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday and didn’t hold back when talking about some of the alarming numbers the city has experienced in the past year and the first several months of 2023.