{"id":255731,"date":"2026-05-26T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/privacy-breaches-prompt-women-to-demand-change-at-regina-police-service\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:25:08","slug":"privacy-breaches-prompt-women-to-demand-change-at-regina-police-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/privacy-breaches-prompt-women-to-demand-change-at-regina-police-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy breaches prompt women to demand change at Regina Police Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Privacy breaches prompt women to demand change at Regina Police Service<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cjme.com\/2026\/05\/26\/privacy-breaches-prompt-women-to-demand-change-at-regina-police-service\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-26 08:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cjme.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Two recent cases involving members of the Regina Police Service, as well as the circumstances surrounding the firing of police chief Farooq Sheikh, have prompted a petition and open letter calling for reforms.<\/p>\n

The letter, which appears on Tuesday\u2019s Board of Police Commissioners agenda, accuses the police, courts and provincial government of failing to protect women and their privacy and failing to hand down appropriate penalties to the perpetrators.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWomen are again left with little reason to trust the system, which adds to the already existing problem of stalking and assaults going unreported,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n

Trish Elliott, one of the letter\u2019s authors, said she wasn\u2019t a victim herself, but the idea arose as she and her friends talked about the high price women pay when they report violations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere isn\u2019t really a mechanism for appropriate sentencing for these kinds of offenses,\u201d Elliott said in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the Ministry of Justice to take a good look at bringing in an aggravating factor that takes into account the power imbalance between police and the women that they\u2019re stalking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliott said a review of practices and policies is also needed to hold the police chief and officers accountable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen don\u2019t want to come forward because they see what\u2019s happening to women who do, how hard it is for them, and then how light the punishments are,\u201d Elliott said. \u201cSo from what we hear, this is part of the culture that exists within the police service.\u201d<\/p>\n

One officer sentenced to time in community after pleading guilty, another charged under privacy act<\/h2>\n

Former Regina Police Service sergeant Robert Semenchuk was found to have snooped on 33 women during his 22-year career, illegally accessing police databases in an attempt to establish relationships with them.<\/p>\n

Semenchuk was sentenced in February to two years in the community, followed by three years of probation, after pleading guilty to breach of trust and unauthorized use of…<\/p>\n

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