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Hayduk is one of three detectives in the unit who regularly meet with these offenders, delving into their lives and monitoring any concerning behaviour they may exhibit during meetings at the police station, and visits to their homes and workplaces.

“We often act like a quarterback in a file, in the sense that we see risk factors evolve, we look at what other resources we need to get involved … they might be intervention or prevention techniques, referrals,” he said.

“We want to make their life as stable as possible because the more stable they are, the less likely they are to offend.”

The unit tries to “short-circuit” an offenders’ crime cycle by making sure they’re abiding by their conditions, attempting to stop them before they escalate and make another victim.

But it’s not always easy to predict when or what a high-risk offenders’ next move might be.

Stanley made headlines in 2013 while he was being monitored by the unit after cutting off his ankle tracking bracelet. He fled to the United States while a manhunt was underway.

In May, he was sentenced to 39 years behind bars for raping a 69-year-old woman in Seattle in 2015. The attack was similar to one he committed in Lethbridge in 1988 when he broke into an elderly woman’s home while she was sleeping and sexually assaulted her.

Almost every one of the people under supervision will end up back in jail at some point for breaching conditions of their peace bond, Hayduk said. Anecdotally, he estimated a third will make changes and won’t commit the same sort of serious violent or sexual offence as they did before.