Ontario Provincial Police Block

OPP union announces ‘significant reform’ after report into its operations The union for Ontario’s provincial police has announced “significant reform” to its organization following a look at workplace behaviour and the use of union money by some former leaders of the association. BARRIE, ONT.—The u...

OPP union mess reveals a ‘toxic’ work culture amid allegations of theft and fraud Two reviews into the Ontario Provincial Police Association reveal that “tyrannical” leaders led to a complete breakdown of governance. There were harassing, expletive-filled emails, including one telling a staffer to ...

Ontario looks to reform rules governing pay for suspended officers The Ontario government is close to hammering out a new law that would grant police chiefs the power to halt pay for suspended officers, which currently costs municipalities about $6.4-million a year and exacts an incalculable toll o...

Paid police suspensions cost Ontario taxpayers more than $13,000 per day, investigation reveals At least 80 police officers in Ontario were on suspension with pay during a three-week period this summer, including a Durham Police officer who has amassed more than $600,000 since first being suspended...

SIMCOE - An eight-year veteran of the Norfolk OPP has been charged with three counts of assault. A complaint was lodged with the OPP Wednesday. Following an investigation by the Huron County OPP crime unit, charges were laid on Thursday. The OPP have no plans to release the name of the accused. “The...

A Norfolk police officer is facing assault charges after a recent incident in Huron County. According to a media release issued by OPP West Region headquarters, Huron County OPP were called to investigate an alleged assault on Aug. 26. The following day, as a result of the investigation, Huron Count...

Huron OPP have charged an OPP officer from Norfolk County with assault following an investigation. On Thursday, police arrested an eight year member of the Norfolk County OPP and charged him with three counts of assault. Police were contacted to investigate allegations of assault against another per...

A Norfolk County OPP officer has been charged with three counts of assault. Provincial police say an eight-year member of the force was arrested and charged Thursday. Members of the Huron County OPP's crime unit were called in to investigate the allegations on Wednesday. The officer, who has not bee...

An OPP officer in Norfolk County is charged with three counts of assault. Huron County OPP started an investigation into an alleged assault involving the officer on Wednesday. The eight-year member of the service was subsequently charged on Thursday. He is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 6. The...

An Ottawa couple is outraged after provincial police directed them off the road and into a parking lot near the Thousand Islands border crossing only to be asked after 10 minutes of waiting whether they wanted to participate in a voluntary travel survey. Paul Hardy said he was travelling to Watertow...

Former OPP officer faces over 40 drug and sexual offence charges. (Hanover ) - A former OPP officer has been arrested for the third time in less than two months and now faces over 40 drug and sexual offence charges. 53 year old John Paul Stone was arrested at a home on 11th avenue in Hanover yester...

Man charged with ramming OPP cruiser acquitted in Sarnia court A two-day trial of a man charged with ramming an OPP cruiser, leaving an officer injured, ended with an acquittal in Sarnia court. Cody Winston Price, 25, of Oil Springs had been charged with dangerous driving, failing to stop for polic...

Craig Wattier, a 30-year veteran of Peel Regional Police and a supervisor in the Technological Crime Unit, was charged this week with fraud and child pornography. The officer has been suspended but he will continue to draw a paycheque as required under current provincial legislation, Peel police chi...

TORONTO - Released on bail, Peel Regional Police Det. Craig Wattier was allowed to go home with his wife to await trial on child porn and fraud charges. And lucky for him, the 30-year veteran gets to sit there and collect his police paycheque while doing nothing at all. How much longer must taxpayer...

A Lambton County man was within his rights to resist an arrest for refusing to submit to a breath test, because there were no legal grounds for the breath test, a Sarnia court judge ruled Tuesday. The man was acquitted Tuesday of refusing a breath test demand and for resisting arrest following a th...