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The Saskatchewan RCMP said fewer people became victims of family and intimate-partner violence in 2025, but the numbers remain “persistently high.”
The RCMP said officers in the province responded to more than 9,800 alleged victims of domestic violence, down slightly from the 10,077 alleged victims the Mounties dealt with in 2024.
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The figures provided by the RCMP did not indicate the numbers of reported incidents, charges or convictions related to family and intimate-partner violence in the province, and did not include the numbers of reports determined to be unfounded after investigation. 650 CKOM requested that data, but an RCMP spokesperson said the federal police force does not keep track of those figures, noting that “the only numbers we can provide related to family or intimate partner violence reports are victim-based rates.”
The RCMP said officers in Saskatchewan responded to 5,191 alleged victims of family violence in 2025 – accounting for 30 per cent of all violent crime victims in the province – and 4,708 alleged victims of intimate-partner violence, accounting for a further 27 per cent of all victims of violent crime.
The RCMP said those numbers work out to 925 alleged victims of family and intimate-partner violence per 100,000 people in Saskatchewan. And while the rates appear to be declining, the RCMP said the numbers for 2025 remained quite high.
“These numbers show that both family and intimate partner violence continue to have a significant impact in our communities,” corporal Rob King, the Saskatchewan RCMP’s interpersonal violence co-ordinator, said in a statement.
“Even with a slight decline, the levels remain high, and we remain committed to working with community agencies to ensure people affected by these types of violence stay safe and connected to the support they need.”
The highest number of victims were reported in the RCMP’s north district, which includes Prince Albert and areas north of the city. That district saw 2,698 alleged family violence victims and 2,385 alleged intimate-partner violence victims in 2025, the RCMP noted, making up more than half of the number of reported incidents in both categories.
The central district – which includes Saskatoon and North Battleford – saw 28 per cent of the province’s alleged victims of family violence cases last year, the RCMP noted, along with 30 per cent of the alleged victims of intimate-partner violence. The south district, which includes Regina and Yorkton, accounted for 20 per cent of 2025’s alleged family violence victims and 19 per cent of the alleged intimate-partner violence victims.
The RCMP said at least one criminal charge was recommended in 37 per cent of incidents involving a victim of family violence in 2025, up from 35 per cent in 2024. Last year saw a charge recommended in 66 per cent of incidents involving a victim of intimate-partner violence, the Mounties added, which was unchanged from 2024.
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