Prince Albert Police Service

The former chief of the Prince Albert police service that was subject to an independent inquiry was paid nearly $430,000 after he retired, public documents show. The documents say Jonathan Bergen received $429,241 in 2023, roughly double the $200,626 he earned in 2022 and his $219,044 salary in 2021, while chief of police in Prince Albert. […]

An autopsy is planned for Sept. 3rd in Saskatoon after police found a man dead in Prince Albert.  On Sept. 1st at just before 9 a.m., Prince Albert Police Service responded to the 1200 block of 28th Street East to assist Parkland Ambulance who was responding to a man who was not conscious and not […]

Officers with a beleaguered Saskatchewan police force were warned about harassing behaviour in the weeks before their police chief accused members of personal attacks and character assassination, internal documents show. Jonathan Bergen announced he was retiring as chief of the Prince Albert Police Service last May saying he was the subject of “cowardly” attacks.  “What I don’t expect […]

The Public Complaints Commission in Saskatchewan has found police officers neglected their duty before an Indigenous toddler was killed in Prince Albert. Thirteen-month-old Tanner Brass died in February 2022. His mother alleged that when she called police for help in the hours before the boy’s death, she was taken into custody because officers racially profiled her. The […]

Relatives of an Indigenous man left brain-dead after an altercation with police in Prince Albert, say he has died. Boden Umpherville, who was 40, had been hospitalized since he was stopped by police on April 1 in Prince Albert. Family took him off life support last week and he died this morning. Umpherville’s family alleges that […]