For the past few years, the board of police commissioners and the Moose Jaw Police Service have hosted a public event with the hope of providing more communication about what they do, and where most of their attention is each year. 

During this month's board of police commissioners meeting, which is open to the public all the time, providing information on who makes up the Moose Jaw Police Service, going over the financials of the past year and some exciting announcements for what's to come.

"We always talk about our date, but we also talk about our founding principals and what our priorities are as a police service, how important community is and we are the public police. We'll work through the data to give people a sense of the trends over time and what we see moving forward as some of the issues as a police service," explained Chief of Police, Rick Bourassa. 

"To hear back from people in the community about the service and what their priorities are for our service. We do have a board of police commissioners that really performs that function of community engagement and there are community members on the board so that we can hear about what community priorities are. It's really a founding principal of Canadian policing that we here take very seriously that we are the public police."

The information sessions aren't only a look at the past but a chance to hear about the future of policing in our city as well according to Chief Bourassa. 

"We'll have an opportunity to talk about some new and exciting pieces of work that we've been able to incorporate, sort of collaborative work that we're doing with other agencies to focus on ensuring we're doing the right types of investigations when children are at risk, as well as moving forward with the police and crisis team(PACT) which is a joint initiative between the police service and the health authority."

Anyone interested in attending the information sessions and police commissioners meeting can go to the Moose Jaw Public Library on Tuesday morning at 9 am.