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The Manitoba Integrated High Risk Sex Offender Unit (MIHRSOU) is a joint forces unit of the Winnipeg Police Service and the RCMP. MIHRSOU today provides information regarding William Rupert ASTLE, 75 years of age, a convicted sex offender who is considered a high risk to become involved in further sexual offences. Astle will be released from the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on January 6, 2011. He is expected to take up residence in the R.M. of Rosser on the outskirts of Winnipeg. His employment has in the past and may in the future take him to communities in northern Manitoba. Upon release, Astle will be under the terms of a probation order.