MOOSE JAW — A three-day hearing into the alleged actions of a former Moose Jaw Police Service officer, which was supposed to start at the end of August, has been cancelled.
The Saskatchewan Police Commission was to hear the matter between Supt. Taylor Mickleborough and the chief of police for the MJPS from Wednesday, Aug. 27 to Friday, Aug. 29. However, without explanation, the commission cancelled that event.
This is the second time the commission has cancelled a hearing into this matter, as there was to have been a three-day hearing from July 23 to 25. However, it cancelled those dates without explanation.
Instead, the hearing dates — all new — are Oct. 7 to 10, Oct. 20 to 21, and Jan. 5 to 7, 2026; the commission has not yet set a location.
Mickleborough is known to have begun his policing career in 2000. He had worked in traffic enforcement, criminal investigations and the serious crimes unit and won several awards during his nearly three decades in uniform.
The police service confirmed to MooseJawToday.com in early October that Mickleborough was no longer a member of the force but declined to offer any extra details about the firing, nor what sections of the Saskatchewan Police Act he may have violated.
During a meeting of the Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners in early October, Bourassa — who resigned in January 2025 because of health issues — confirmed that he fired Mickleborough using Section 60 of The Police Act as his guide. He pointed out that that section gives criteria to chiefs on how and when they can dismiss members.
Also, the former chief said Section 61 of the act gives dismissed members the ability to appeal to the Saskatchewan Police Commission, which would then hold a public hearing on the matter.
Bourassa said at the time that he wanted to respect the legal process and noted that saying anything else or litigating or trying those matters outside of those hearings “would be wildly inappropriate.”
They later met by phone in late February to exchange information so they could start determining how long the hearing might take. They also held other phone meetings in the following weeks, but those were held in private.
According to the City of Moose Jaw’s 2024 public accounts, Mickleborough was one of the highest-paid police officers in the city last year, earning $151,192.76.
