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Police officers weren’t super busy with the Super Bowl in Regina.
“We actually didn’t respond to any noisy party calls around the Super Bowl hours,” Regina Police Service Chief Evan Bray said during Tuesday’s Greg Morgan Morning Show.
Bray referred to the hours between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday.
In addition, Bray said police responded to four calls from people who reported their neighbours for having people inside their home who didn’t live at the home — which would be contrary to COVID-19 public health orders.
The chief said officers went to check those out and all were unfounded.
In a couple of cases, Bray said it was found someone was at a home they didn’t live in, but they were an individual who lived on their own so they were not breaking the COVID-19 regulations set out.
Kelsie Fraser of the Saskatoon Police Service indicated she was not aware of any tickets handed out either in relation to Super Bowl gatherings or parties.
The Ministry of Health said public health inspectors visited establishments in Regina and Saskatoon too on Sunday to ensure Super Bowl viewing guidelines were being followed.
The ministry said those inspectors would have also responded to complaints through the enforcement line, and it will be determined this week whether any case needs to be followed up on or fines issued.
Out of the cold, into the Regina police station
When it gets dangerously cold, Regina police will allow individuals to come inside if they have nowhere else to go. Bray describes it as a worst-case scenario.
“We’re the last resort but if someone is cold and knocks on our door — which does happen quite often, 10 o’clock at night at the police service — we will give them a warm place to sleep overnight and a cup of coffee in the morning,” Bray explained.
“There’s a lot of vigilance to ensure that we don’t have people that are outside with nowhere to go in this extreme cold.”
Bray said they do have an extreme cold-weather strategy in the city with a number of partnering agencies. Officers will work with Mobile Crisis or another agency to try and find homeless individuals a bed, shelter or somewhere else to go during the night.
