Search and Rescue Regina Inc. is a Saskatchewan Non-Profit Corporation and Canada Revenue Agency Registered Charity.
Ideally, no one will ever go missing, but when they do, Search and Rescue Regina professional volunteers are ready and capable to serve. Depending on the year, our members are activated between five and 20 times. During 2025, our members have also been deployed on evidence searches and to support wildfire evacuees in Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Manitoba, and as mutual search and rescue support to a very high-profile Alberta missing person.
Every activation requires critical search, rescue and recovery equipment, and highly skilled professional volunteers, who are fully capable of using that equipment.
In the past two years, Search and Rescue Regina has:
- Developed a strategic plan in consultation with representatives from the File Hills Tribal Council, Regina Police Service, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency, and Search and Rescue Saskatchewan Association of Volunteers.
- Conducted an equipment needs assessment, secured donations for, and purchased search, rescue and recovery specific equipment (a fully fitted trailer, command centre tent, extraction litter, medical supplies, uniforms, and more).
- Trained professional volunteer members in Ground Search and Rescue Certification, Team Leader Certification, Disaster Assistance Response (DART), Basic Incident Command System, navigation, communications (radios), Command Centre set-up, Hypothermia, STARS Helicopter Landing, Near Water, Bear Aware, Wilderness First Aid, Stop the Bleed, Triage and more.
- Provided volunteer support to community activities such as the Special Olympics Polar Plunge, Regina Police Service Round Dance, Missing Persons Week, RCMP Heritage Centre Awakening, Tipi Raising and Sisters in Spirit Vigil, Tamra Keepness Memorial BBQ, Regina International Airport Emergency Exercises, Treaty 4 Gathering, and National Truth and Reconciliation Day.
- Secured Canada Revenue Agency Registered Charity status, which enabled the purchase of equipment and supported our training needs.
- Updated all of our governance policies and procedures.
100 percent of what Search and Rescue Regina does is done by volunteers using donated funds.
The missing are vulnerable. Your donation helps us bring them home.
Search and Rescue Regina is a CRA Registered Charity, and you can claim an income tax deduction for your donation.