RCMP are looking to the public for information on an escaped inmate.

Police say 33-year-old Garret Gardiner was doing community service in the area of Martin’s Lake Regional Park north of Blaine Lake.

Authorities say around noon on Wednesday he took off on foot into the bush.

Gardiner is five-feet-seven, medium build with black hair and brown eyes. (He is pictured above. Photo provided)

He has connections to the Buffalo Narrows area.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of 33-year-old Garret Gardiner is asked to call Blaine Lake RCMP.