Regina police report steady increase in crime over past decade
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As 2024 reached the halfway point at the end of June, the Regina Police Service (RPS) analyzed its numbers for a mid-year report.
As 2024 reached the halfway point at the end of June, the Regina Police Service (RPS) analyzed its numbers for a mid-year report.
The report compares crime statistics to the previous year, and numbers from a decade ago in order to analyze trends.
Overall, there has been a steady increase in crime since 2015, which RPS Chief Farooq Sheikh maintained is a reflection of the city's growing population.
"There's some really valuable comments made about in the last ten years, you know, the population has increased,” he said.
Sheikh explained that comparisons from years past are made more complicated when a growing population is taken into account.
“At the same time, like I said, over the last year when I look at year to day crime, my concern or my main priority is to be able to look at ways to bring in crime data,” Sheikh explained.
That crime data showed various jumps from 2015, with 9,590 crimes in the first six months of 2024 reflecting an increase of 14 per cent.
