Missing person reports in Saskatoon are trending down for the second year in a row.

According to the Saskatoon Police Service Annual Missing Persons Report, there were 3,300 missing person reports in 2025, down from both 3590 in 2024 and 4270 in 2023.

Included in the report presented the Board of Police Commissioners Thursday, the largest demographic to be reported missing is female youth, followed by male youth, and then adult female.

Although the report numbers seem high, 28 per cent of the people reported missing last year accounted for nearly seventy percent of all reports, meaning they went missing multiple times.

Twenty-one of these missing persons investigations have carried over in 2026. Of the 21 investigations, 16 are male and 5 are female. Further to that, 14 are Caucasian, four are Indigenous, two are Middle Eastern and one is African American/Jamaican.

On the financial front The Saskatoon Police Service exceeded its 2025 operating budget, but only slightly.

In its report the SPS states that the budget was surpassed by $35,946 “due to higher than planned Chief of Police assessment consulting services and increased hours for external legal counsel.”

The approved 2025 budget amount was $352,900, and the amount spent was $355,511, or 1 per cent more than approved.

However, when looking at the budget as a whole, the SPS was able to salvage a $4.02 million surplus. The surplus was split and placed between the SPS Capital Reserve and the SPS Fiscal Stabilization Reserve. therefor resulting in no impact to the City’s overall year-end balance.