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By Susan McNeil

Sask Marshals Service

Sask. Marshals begin field deployment in Prince Albert

May 30, 2025 | 5:00 PM

People in the City of Prince Albert will now see members of the Saskatchewan Marshal Service (SMS) working more publicly with city police.

The new service, which is about a year ahead of schedule, graduated its first class of nine officers last month and will now start deploying officers into the field as part of the second phase of its push towards full operation.

“We are excited to be working together with the Prince Albert Police Service in our second phase as we build to our full operational deployment. This will be the first step to assisting police services across the province and creating safer communities,” said Deputy Chief Marshal Rich Lowen in a news release on May 30.

For this phase, officers will work with other police forces “in an integrated fashion” and help in the field.

One of the goals is to have marshals build relationships with other services. Another goal is to give the SMS the chance to validate standard operating procedures, technology and policies in the real work.

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Once this phase is over, the SMS will become fully operational.

Prince Albert Police issued their own statement, acknowledging the formal establishment of the SMS as an accredited policing agency and welcoming the chance to work together.

“This is a unique period in Saskatchewan’s policing landscape. The Saskatchewan Marshals Service brings with it an opportunity for collaboration, and we are hopeful that through this working relationship, we can ease some of the pressures facing our organization. By helping address outstanding investigations, this partnership may also allow us to enhance our emergency response capacity, ensuring we remain responsive to the needs of our community,” said Prince Albert Police Chief Patrick Nogier.

He said that over the next month, P.A. Police officers will work on select investigations that have a significant impact on the community.

The chosen files need sustained attention and a consistent investigative approach, and having the Marshals helping out, allows the P.A. Police to keep their focus on emergency response and high priority calls for service.

City officers respond to 100 – 130 calls for service every 24 hours, and those calls run the range from public safety incidents to criminal investigations.

Nogier said that his team is looking over their case load to see where the Marshals can provide targeted help.

The Marshal Service has the job of focusing on higher crime locations in Saskatchewan with high visibility and intelligence-led policing.

They will find and arrest people with outstanding warrants, monitor prolific offenders, provide backup emergency support to other services such as the RCMP, First Nations and municipal forces.

They also have a mandate to investigate agricultural thefts of cattle, crops, metal, farm chemical thefts and trespassing.

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