Members of the Weyburn Police Service last week charged four people for breaching their release conditions in separate incidents.
Deputy Chief Shane St. John explained it's one of the jobs of police officers to watch community members who are on conditions.
"Sometimes they're caught out past a curfew or caught with someone maybe they shouldn't be with, and no other criminal activity had occurred," he noted. "Or it's they're with the co-accused, people they were in trouble with. [They] can't be in a place you can buy alcohol or drugs, like a weed shop or the bar."
Either way, St. John said, the breach itself is a criminal charge, even though each of the four people last week was not doing anything otherwise illegal at the time.
"They weren't caught doing another criminal offense when they were picked up."
He said sometimes a breach of conditions charge comes at the request of Probation Services.
"Probations puts conditions on people, things they need to do, like report their address. They can't charge, so they'll send that charge to us, and then we charge for them."