Ontario Provincial Police Block

ERIN - A Wellington County OPP officer was issued a Provincial Offence Notice following a collision on March 13. Police say that at 3:13pm, the officer had completed a traffic stop and was reversing onto Wellington Road 23 when he struck an unoccupied vehicle parked in a driveway. The officer was un...

Midland doesn’t have wind farms but in a surprise cost increase, contracted policing jumped $26,000 without warning or consultation in another rural municipality. What assurances do OPP-policed municipalities have that the new funding formula is not going be as dynamic and as full of surprises as th...

It seems it is worth repeating, when OPP took over policing in Parry Sound, Collingwood and Orillia, each municipality ended up paying for new detachment offices with all their bells and whistles. Going OPP would require Midland replacing all vehicles to meet OPP standards, same with weapons, unifor...

SPRINGWATER TWP. - A 25-year OPP veteran has been charged following a two-vehicle crash Friday afternoon on County Road 93. Barrie OPP say the crash involved an unmarked police vehicle around 4 p.m., just south of Dalston. OPP say there was no injuries in the crash and minimal damage caused to the v...

SPRINGWATER TOWNSHIP – A member of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has been issued a Provincial Offence notice following a two vehicle collision motor vehicle involving an unmarked police vehicle which occurred on Friday March 11, 2016 at 4:00PM. The collision occurred County Road 93, south of D...

OWEN SOUND - A visiting Crown attorney withdrew criminal charges of assault causing bodily harm against two Ontario Provincial Police officers Thursday because he said there was no reasonable prospect of conviction. The charges were brought privately by Enos Martin, who followed a rarely used pre-en...

53 year old John Paul Stone faces over 40 drug and sexual offence charges. A former OPP officer has been committed to stand trial in Stratford Superior Court this spring, on numerous drug and sex offences. The preliminary hearing for 53 year old John Paul Stone lasted four days and he was ordered t...

Ex-Lover Attempts to Shred OPP Constable in Fraud Scandal: Serving the Public Interest or Making a Mockery of the Public? Karen Querat, also known as Karen Bedard, was arrested on November 20th, 2013 and pleaded guilty on August 8th, 2014 to charges of fraud over $5,000 – $129,927.74 to be exact. Q...

OPP officer charged with accessing child porn appears in court Friday THUNDER BAY – A provincial police sergeant charged with accessing child pornography appeared in court on Friday morning. Mark Anthony Maltais was represented by defence lawyer Gil Labine at the Thunder Bay Courthouse. Maltais, 46...

A 25-year-old Pembroke Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged after the truck he was driving collided with another truck which struck a parked car with a passenger inside. On Wednesday, at approximately 4:25 p.m. two officers from the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP detachment were called to a c...

Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged in connection with a collision Tuesday in Laurentian Valley Township. Police say the officer was responding to a crash and was driving with its emergency lights and siren activated on Paul Martin Drive, when it collided with a west bound 2004 Ford t...

Almaguin councils brace for another round of hefty policing increases ALMAGUIN – The second round of OPP cost increases is hitting municipalities just as hard as the first. “We’ve cut everything we possibly can,” Ryerson Township Reeve Glenn Miller says. “The cost of doing business with the OPP has...

An Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act after a motor vehicle collision in Welland earlier this week. At about 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, July 14 officers from the Niagara Detachment of the OPP Highway Safety Division investigated a collision Hwy. 140 at Enterp...

When someone commits a crime, usually an investigation into said crime begins immediately. Then why does this not apply police officers who commit crimes? Leaked contracts between police unions and city officials show guarantees that disciplinary records and complaints issued against officers would ...

A member of the Quinte West OPP was the driver injured during a serious collision fromFriday night. Quinte West OPP and other emergency officials were called to 1538 Frankford-Stirling Road, near Oak Hills Golf Club, where a driver was ejected from a vehicle. An investigation lasted about 12 hours, ...