Internal police reports contradict Moe's claims that officer said bullets caused holes at campaign office

Internal reports prepared by a Regina police officer contradict claims made by Premier Scott Moe about damage at a Saskatchewan Party campaign office.

During the provincial election campaign, Moe said Saskatchewan Party campaign workers were told by a police officer that two holes in the window of Rahul Singh's campaign office in Regina were caused by gunfire.

The report filed by the Regina police officer does not support that claim.

"At no point I said the holes were made by a firearm," wrote L. Rodriguez, the only identifying information about the officer who filed the supplementary occurrence report.

The report forms part of six pages of internal documents released to CBC through a freedom of information request. 

The documents give a much clearer picture of the Regina Police Service's response to an incident that Moe compared to the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. 

CBC asked Moe's office for an interview so he could respond to the new information. Instead, the Saskatchewan Party provided a statement.

"We have no further comment. We stand by the comments made at the time," the statement said. 

Moe first mentioned the damage at the campaign office while campaigning on Oct. 22.

That day, unprompted, Moe brought up the damage at the office of his Regina Northeast candidate, Rahul Singh.

Moe said the office appeared to have had bullets shot into it. Under questioning, he said bullets were fired at the office.

Saskatchewan Party communications put out a news release a short time later. Singh was quoted in the release as calling it an "attack."

The police reports paint a much different picture. 

Rodriguez writes that on Oct. 21 at about 4:53 p.m. CST, he was at a store in the same strip mall as Singh's campaign office investigating an unrelated mater.