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Spikes in crimes like break and enters and thefts mean Saskatoon city police are falling short on their annual report card.

While overall crime was down in 2015, property crimes and weapons charges jumped, according to a performance report card submitted to the board of police commissioners.

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Chief Clive Weighill said the trend shows no sign of stopping.

“The tables have turned on those decades-long reductions in crime,” he said.

The police service scored 7.25 out of 10 on its annual report card — its lowest grade in five years.

Weighill said the grade doesn’t tell the whole story — thousands of traffic tickets, for example, went uncounted because they were issued as part of joint RCMP investigations.

The grade does reflect some troubling trends. Saskatoon’s booming drug trade is leading to more and more people committing crimes like thefts and robberies, Weighill said.

“It’s not just a policing issue, it’s a whole community issue. We have to get at some of the root causes that are driving this.”