The Saskatoon Police Service has engaged in what has been called "starlight tours", the practice of taking Indigenous people to the edge of the city in the dead of winter and abandoning them there. In January 2000, Darrell Night was dropped off on the outskirts of Saskatoon but was able to survive. The two officers involved were convicted of unlawful confinement in September 2001 and sentenced to eight months in prison. In 2003, police chief Russell Sabo admitted that there was a possibility that the force had been dumping Indigenous people outside the city for years, after revealing that in 1976 an officer was disciplined for taking an Indigenous woman to the outskirts of the city and abandoning her there.