Saskatoon police are hiring outside help to review unfounded sexual assault reports.
Chief Clive Weighill says the service will be looking back at all its unfounded sexual assault files from 2010 to now.
“We’re hiring, on a contract, a female inspector that’s retired, that didn’t work in the area,” Weighill said Tuesday. “We’re going to go back and look at them all, just to make sure.”
According to a recent article in the Globe and Mail, about one in five of all reported sexual assaults in Saskatchewan are dismissed by police.
Weighill said about 31 files — or seven per cent — were unfounded last year with the Saskatoon Police Service.
