Cannabis is set to be legal in exactly two weeks from today and the Swift Current City RCMP are preparing themselves the best they can.

Late last week Staff Sergeant Gary Hodges of the Swift Current City RCMP attended city council to give his quarterly community policing report which included some talk about cannabis.

As of Friday afternoon, Hodges was still unaware if the City detachment would be receiving a screening device.

"The RCMP is currently developing a training curriculum for the use of the approved screening devices that are coming online," he said. "Currently there is a limited number of those in the possession of the RCMP and I've been told they will be deployed in a strategic manner in consultation with the provincial and municipal partners."

Hodges told council although they haven't determined who will be getting the devices, he did say "he would be lobbying for one, but he can't confirm they will get one."

"There has been some indication that they may be mobile and the combined traffic units will rotate them around with them when they go into their different communities with their programs but I haven't gotten confirmation on that either at this time."

The City RCMP doesn't have any Drug Recognition Experts (DRE) on staff currently but there are some available to them.

"The traffic unit has two members here and the (Swift Current) Rural detachment also has two members, so there is four available in the area," he said. "They make themselves available at any given time to come in even if they're off duty, basically (if we) get the grounds to proceed to a drug recognition expert evaluation of a driver."

Training required to become a DRE involves 15 days in Regina and then they have to go to either Phonix, Arizona or Jacksonville, Florida where they have to successful conduct 12 tests on federal inmates who have volunteered to go under the influence.