SASKATCHEWAN - Saskatchewan Enforcement Response Teams (SERT) have kept busy over the last year seizing 230 firearms and more than 17,000 grams of illicit drugs.
In 2024, SERT continued to work diligently with frontline RCMP officers from detachments across the province to remove harms from communities and help keep Saskatchewan residents safe.
Saskatchewan RCMP’s SERT – which includes Crime Reduction Teams (CRT), the Human Trafficking and Counter Exploitation Unit (HTCEU), Offender Management Unit (OMU), Saskatchewan Trafficking Response Teams (STRT) and Warrant Enforcement and Suppression Teams (WEST) – helps protect community well-小蓝视频 by tackling serious and gang-related crimes, and take dangerous drugs and weapons off the streets.
Removing harms from Saskatchewan communities
Illicit drugs continue to harm people across the province. In 2024, Saskatchewan RCMP’s SERT teams seized:
- 6,572 grams of cocaine;
- 4,732 grams of methamphetamine;
- 130 grams fentanyl;
- 6,349 grams of other illicit drugs; and
- 86 tablets.
Saskatchewan RCMP’s SERT removed 230 firearms from the hands of criminals across the province in 2024.
Investigational highlights
- In July 2024, approximately 161 grams of methamphetamine and 14 firearms, along with other items, from a business, a rural property and a vehicle in the Yorkton area. During a subsequent search of the rural property, RCMP officers located a severely injured, forcibly confined adult male inside a barn. Investigation determined the man had been kidnapped. Two adult males faced kidnapping, drug and firearms charges, among others.
- against two individuals after seizing 31 firearms from a residence in Lafleche and a rural yard site south of the town in November 2024.
- In October 2024, at two residences in North Battleford. At the residences, officers located and seized a loaded handgun, a rifle, approximately 81 grams of methamphetamine, approximately 58 grams of crack cocaine, ammunition, a sum of cash and drug trafficking paraphernalia. As a result of investigation, two adult males and an adult female were arrested.
- While executing a search warrant at an apartment building in La Ronge in February 2024, a loaded handgun, 60 grams of cocaine, 31 grams of methamphetamine, a sum of cash and other drug paraphernalia. Two adults were arrested and charged.
- In August 2024, in Swift Current as part of an ongoing investigation. Officers located and seized 503 grams of methamphetamine, 52 grams of fentanyl and 105 grams of cocaine, among other evidence. An adult male was arrested at the business and charged.
