The Saskatchewan government is still working on establishing an independent oversight body to investigate serious incidents involving police officers, but it likely won’t be in place as early as officials initially hoped. “To ensure that service levels could be maintained as much as possible across the justice system, the ministry has had to postpone work on previously planned initiatives,” said Noel Busse, executive director of communications for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice, in an email statement Tuesday.
Priorities had to be shifted to adapt to the changing and challenging circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Busse, “and one of the things we had to shift our timelines on was the enhancements to police