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WEYBURN POLICE SERVICE

Celebrating 51 years of dedicated service to the Community.

The City of Weyburn, with its population of 10,000 people, nestled in the southeast corner of the Saskatchewan grain belt, right in the heart of the ever-expanding oil industry, promotes itself as the Hospitality Capital of Saskatchewan.

The quality of life in this progressive yet somewhat tranquil community can be attributed to many things, one of which I believe is the forty years of dedicated and quality Policing Service it has received.

The Weyburn Police Department was established on the 1st day of July, 1957, under the leadership of James E. McCardle, and took over actual duties from the R.C.M.P. on August 1, 1957. The Department was located in the basement of City Hall, remaining there for some twenty-nine years before moving to its present location.

The Police Department grew from eight officers in 1957 to a strength of nineteen officers in the mid 1980's. It has since shrunk to sixteen members as a result
of budgeting restraints and the concept of doing more with less.  Weyburn's ongoing concern to provide its citizens with the best possible Policing is displayed in its strategic plan to get back to full strength, starting with the hiring of an additional
member September 1997.

Although the Police Department operates on the foundation of sound Community Based Policing as it did in its inception in 1957, it is not unfamiliar to change either. This has probably been most evident in its leadership and their individual management styles. In the Police Department's forty years, it has had but only four Chiefs. Starting in 1957 with Chief James E. McCardle, who headed the department until his retirement in 1974, at which time the management responsibilities were assumed by Chief Edward A. Williams. Chief Williams manned operations from 1974 until 1985, leaving the Police Department a couple years earlier than his anticipated retirement for health reasons. Chief Gordon H. Dynna, the department's third Chief,
reined from 1985 until 1993.  His retirement in 1993 saw the end of an era as he was the last of the department's original eight members to leave the Police Department. Chief William S. Millar held the Chief's position since 1993 and took the Department past the year 2000. Rod Horsman was appointed Chief Of Police in 2003 and will lead the department in the new millennium.

The Weyburn Police Service and its dedicated members and efficient support staff welcome the challenges of change as we enter a new millennium. In the fifty plus years of our existence, change has been reflected in the services we provide and in the technology we use to provide them, but one thing that remains is our dedication to the Principles of Law Enforcement and to the Citizens of Weyburn.

Plain Clothes Division
Weyburn Police Service 1960's
Weyburn Police Service Today
Weyburn Police Service Remembers