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Police and crisis team helping the city’s most vulnerable

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Saskatoon Police Inspector Mitch Yuzdepski Jan.28, 2016

By François Biber

It's been one year since crisis workers were paired with Saskatoon police patrol officers.  In that time they dealt with over 900 calls dealing with the homeless and the mentally ill.

“A lot of the calls we respond to are non-criminal and are really outside the core training we receive,” Inspector Mitch Yuzdepski with the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) said. “We’re used to criminal complaints and dealing with it with the criminal code and we’re done.”

But in June 2014, the... // Read Full Article


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