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Agatha Eaglechief says the city needs to enforce a nighttime curfew on all high-school-aged kids in order to stop gangs of roaming teenagers out late at night.

“Their parents are letting them run wild,” Eaglechief said from her home in Confederation Park.

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Eaglechief said she’s noticed a spike in gang activity among teenagers in recent years. She said she has spent countless nights out on the streets helping her friends track down their teenage kids.

Now it’s time for the police to get involved, she said.

“There are a lot of innocent children getting involved in the gangs, the thieving and stealing,” she said. “We need to put our foot down. The government, the chief of police, everybody. Control these kids.”

Eaglechief has written a letter to Saskatoon’s board of police commissioners and hopes to attend its meeting on Thursday to convince police to take action.

Eaglechief isn’t alone. Last November, the Town of La Ronge started enforcing an overnight curfew for people under the age of 18. RCMP were told to enforce of the bylaw — which has been on the books since 2005 — after a spate of break-ins, thefts and other vandalism, according to Mayor Thomas Sierzycki.