The list of benefits of the Project 104 Graffiti Team is endless.

The mural placed at Elgin Park.

Created by Chief of Police Rick Bourassa and Peacock Collegiate High School's Grad Coach Cori Saas, this team is comprised of student artists who collaborate together to create murals that are displayed across Moose Jaw.

When Chief Bourassa went around town he saw so much graffiti, and the goal of the police when it comes to graffiti is to reduce the number of tags and prevent any additional graffiti from being placed on buildings. Talking with Saas, they realized they could give students a creative outlet and give kids a chance to help with community development and making our city a better place, and what better way than to fight fire with fire.

"We had this shared vision of creating a space where students felt safe to come and to share and to collaborate," Saas explained. "Now, often that doesn't happen in all of our schools so we all know that if you can provide a space where students feel a sense of belonging, they will come and they will stay and they will express themselves and often that is through the arts."

The creation of the group was able to fulfill two needs, stop a graffiti problem and give students a place to be themselves.

Coming into this group, the now-graduated Evelyn Hart felt alone and out of place going to Peacock Collegiate, but she found a home.

"They showed me this group, where a bunch of misfits and very weird people and they told me this was the art group. After going there for a little while I knew this is where I wanted to be," Hart explained. "I grew up since [joining], I believe we all grew up so much in that time."

Each mural has to be pitched to Chief Bourassa and Saas, and they approve the location and theme of each project. The leads on each project will take care of that part, but in the end, everyone gets a piece of the work.

On Tuesday, Project 104 revealed three new pieces that went up in parks around Moose Jaw, each were placed in each area for a specific reason.

The mural at Moose Square.

Hart painted a stallion in a field walking home to its barn in the distance. She wanted to put it in Moose Square which is more in the industrial area of Moose Jaw. This signifies how horses really helped to build Moose Jaw and how they helped in the farm industry.

Amy Cozma, a grade 12 student at Peacock, painted a princess castle and fairytale themed panels. She did a mural for the Princess Ball in 2017 and really enjoyed that and wanted to recreate that. She decided to place it in Elgin Park since more kids tend to visit there.

The final and largest project was done by graduate CC Chu. Her project told the story of how you evolve through school and how you spread your wings after graduation. She decided to place it in Sunningdale Park since more teenagers tend to visit there.

Funded through the Police Service's "Proceeds of Crime" fund, there are still many projects to come, and it changes these students lives.

Working on the project at Sunningdale Park, one student, who previously got in trouble with graffiti, was working on the mural and just painting a backdrop when Chief Bourassa arrived to help in his jeans and a t-shirt, just painting purple with the kid for two hours. That completely restructured the student's idea of what Police are and what his experiences would be with them.

Expect more from Project 104 in the future, as the next group of students takes over from the graduates to create their own murals.