Feeling his first five year term has gone rather well, Moose Jaw Police Chief Rick Bourassa has signed a contract extension offered by the city that will see him at the helm through 2023. Bourassa came to Moose Jaw in 2013 from Regina and set to work on a number of initiatives that included better recruiting and training of officers.

"We're going to keep moving forward and we really are focused on a community that's safe, a community that's harmonious where people live well together and a community that's inclusive that includes everybody."

But Bourassa admits it hasn't been without its challenges.  Crime rates have slowly started to increase in Moose Jaw and the Chief knows that, spending a good amount of time studying the trends and then finding the root causes.

"For a number of years, crime rates had been on the decrease and that decrease seems to have bottomed out and there are increases now in a number of different crime categories."

Bourassa says there is often underlying economic and social issues that lead to that spike in crime, adding that they try to work in schools as much as they can to get ahead of those potential problems later in life.