On Tuesday, the corrections support unit (CSU) gave an overview and report to the Regina police commissioners board on how the CSU monitors dangerous offenders when they're released back into the community..The CSU started in 2020 with two full-time officers who look after the surveillance and investigations, as well as three part-time officers who submit arrest warrant requests and summons for unlawfully at large or on probation offenders..The report said the CSU is supposed to have 10 officers, which includes six investigators, three integrated partners, and an analyst..“With the expansion of the unit to the full capacity as envisioned, CSU would be able to increase productivity with its current mandate and be able to include the management of young offenders as well as persons of interest on probation orders and conditional release orders,” said the report.. Regina Police Car .Regina Police Chief Evan Bray plans to expand the unit when the Regina Police Service (RPS) moves into a new building later this year or early next year..In the new RPS building, there is sufficient room to work with community partners, such as probation workers. Currently, the CSU works with two probation workers, but it will add more in the new building..Bray said the five officers have prioritized check-ins and risk assessment of certain offenders..“This work was being done before, but if you’ve got an area that’s assigned and designated to do this work, then you take ownership of it, and I think you’re more collaborative in your efforts,” said Bray..Bray said the CSU works with other municipal police services and the RCMP to find offenders unlawfully at large..READ MORE RCMP wasn’t searching for mass stabbing attacker, not ‘high profile’ with 125 charges.“The problem is, the number is fairly high — not just for our community, but for Canada as a whole,” said Bray..“A lot of times, the people are quite transient. Just because they have a warrant originating out of Regina, or wherever, doesn’t necessarily mean they are in that location.”.In 2021, the CSU found 133 “arrestable offenders” after they “fell off the grid” and monitored 99 offenders, of which 68 dangerous “habitual offenders” got arrested for not following their release conditions.
