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A new law surrounding freedom of information (FOI) requests has kept the Regina Police Service busy in its first year.
The Local Authority Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (LA FOIP) first applied to public bodies in Saskatchewan in 2018.
“I think anytime we have a new process like this it’s going to be a period of growth and this first year has been that,” said Regina Police Chief Evan Bray.
Police took 150 requests which took about 800 hours to complete. While the average request was 40 pages long, taking four hours to complete, the largest one was 13,000 pages and took eight months.
The majority of requests were for domestic issues, from the family of someone who died, to prove innocence or for stats and research. While 101 requests were for individual occurrences like a car theft, 22 were for both personal and general reasons, like their domestic report and a request for stats of all domestics in the year. There were also 15 general requests, seven for statistics like the number of SWAT calls and five media requests.
Regina police have hired just one access and privacy officer to handle all the freedom of information requests. Chief Bray said a second position was added toward the end of the year to help with administrative duties.
“There was an increase in the volume of requests and work towards the end of the year. If that continues through 2019 we’ll have to just assess in terms of resources that we’ve got designated to do this work for us,” said Bray.